Quotes -June 23, 2011

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

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