Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 01, 2016
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Irv Kupcinet  
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895  
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)  
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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Sidney J. Harris  
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