Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 03, 2020
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
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Robert Anton Wilson  
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance  
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
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Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)  
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)  
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