Quotes of the Day
Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 29, 2010
- Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf
- The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
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