Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 20, 2025
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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Mae West (1892 - 1980)  
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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Norman Douglas  
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)  
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