Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 30, 2026
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)  
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999  
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)  
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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George Lucas (1944 - ), Senator Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)  
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