Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 08, 2025
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)  
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)  
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
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Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)  
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
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C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)  
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