Quotes of the Day
Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 12, 2024
- Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
- H. Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980)
- An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
- Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
- The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
- The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
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