Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 24, 2017
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
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Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972)  
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)  
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)  
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946  
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