Quotes from the World for Monday 11/14/MMXI

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), ch. 7, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982).

Spoken by a fictional Benjamin Franklin.