For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowers who expect to live in their home for a number of years.
In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
I was the black kid in school who'd skate and wrestle, who was really into outer space and botany and kung fu and hip-hop. I was into everything.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
