Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 30, 2024
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
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Mick Jagger (1943 - )  
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)  
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)  
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)  
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