Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 07, 2024
Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)  
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
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Emerson Pugh  
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)  
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