Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 28, 2008
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
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Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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Christopher Hampton
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.
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Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
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Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
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