Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 03, 2025
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"  
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)  
Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
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Leslie Nielsen (1926 - )  
Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.
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Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010  
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