Quote #632
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing...
Quote #7567
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Quote #9782
Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of...
Quote #6812
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Quote #23311
To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to...
Quote #14948
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Quote #10679
I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.
Quote #12604
Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be...
Quote #12136
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune...
Quote #17713
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a...