Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 23, 2024
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
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Bethania McKenstry  
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)  
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Jack London (1876 - 1916)  
I like to play chess with old men in the park. But it's so hard to find 32 of them.
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Emo Phillips  
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