BEING A BORE

Quote for Today  October  1, 2011

"Under pressure, people admit to murder,  setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank,  but never to being bores."

Elsa Maxwell, How to Do It, Little, Brown, 1957

BOREDOM

Quote for Today  September 30, 2011

"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by fear of it."

Bertrand Russell, Life, February 13, 1970

LOVE
CAN BE BORING!

Quote for Today - September 29,  2011

"It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one."

C. S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964

IT'S NEVER
TOO LATE!

Quote for Today  September 28,  2011

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

James A. Michener, Chesapeake, Random House, 1978

MIRRORS

Quote for Today September 27,  2011

"Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves."

Elissa Melamed, Mirror, Mirror: The Terror of Not Being Young, Linden Press, 1983

HANDWRITING
IS ON THE BALL

Quote for Today  September 26,  2011

"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margins are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books."

George Santayana, Recalled on his death, September 26, 1952

THE CONSEQUENCES 
OF  RUSH

Quote for Today  September  25, 2011

"The law of unintended consequences pushes us unceasingly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective."

Richard Schickel, Time Magazine, November 1983