Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 14, 2017
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
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Roy Blount Jr.  
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), misquoting Sir Walter Scott  
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)  
Adventure is just bad planning.
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Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)  
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