Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 28, 2025
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)  
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)  
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)  
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.
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Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06  
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