Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 26, 2016
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)  
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)  
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
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Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006)  
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