Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 30, 2013
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937  
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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Robert Orben  
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
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Russell Baker (1925 - )  
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)  
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