Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 10, 2025
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)  
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
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Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)  
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)  
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)  
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