Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 08, 2019
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)  
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)  
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"  
Invention is the mother of necessity.
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Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)  
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