Quotes of the Day
Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 23, 2015
- A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
- Joey Adams
- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"
- Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey
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