Quotes -June 23, 2011
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:28 pm
Thanks Stephen.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly, "Pogo" (comic strip)
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
-- Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
-- John Updike, Assorted Prose (1965)
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly, "Pogo" (comic strip)
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
-- Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
-- John Updike, Assorted Prose (1965)
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson