Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 22, 2025
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)  
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)  
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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Shana Alexander  
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)  
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