Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 29, 2017
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)  
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
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Emile Chartier  
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)  
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
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Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993  
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