Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 13, 2017
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
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Alfred E. Newman  
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)  
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)  
Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)  
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