Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 18, 2025
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
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Shirley Temple (1928 - )  
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game"  
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
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Herb Caen  
The world is round; it has no point.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff  
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