Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 17, 2008
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
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Katharine Whitehorn
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

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