Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 06, 2026
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
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Martin Mull (1943 - )  
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935  
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money  
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967  
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