Quotes for the day 8-24

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
-- Bob Edwards

A cult is a religion with no political power.
-- Tom Wolfe

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
-- Leonard Bernstein

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

From Stephen