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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 17, 2018
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)  
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Beauty"  
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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)  
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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895  
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