Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 25, 2014
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
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Neil Gaiman, Sandman  
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)  
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary  
Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.
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Peter Blake, House M.D., Safe, 2006  
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