Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 28, 2017
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)  
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)  
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)  
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
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James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)  
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