Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 08, 2013
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
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Jimmy Buffett, Song Title  
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)  
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
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Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)  
Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5  
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