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The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals. — Leonard Boswell

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. — Nelson Boswell

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation. — James Boswell

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it? — James Boswell

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him. — James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — James Boswell

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech - a slightly elevated and concentrated form. — Thomas Boswell

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether. — James Boswell

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. — James Boswell

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading! — James Boswell

Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., — Louis L'Amour

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. — James Boswell

Count me amongst the enemies to demons. Except for one. — Helen Boswell

You get to me all of the time. Always have. In all the good ways. — Helen Boswell

I think that I had better go, Holmes."
"Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A. — Raphael Saadiq

If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it. — Boswell

To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me." — Simon Boswell

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him. — Robert Boswell

Boswell is the first of biographers. — Thomas B. Macaulay

He who has provoked the lash of wit cannot complain that he smarts from it. — James Boswell

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility? — Robert Boswell

Baseball is religion without the mischief. — Thomas Boswell

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up. — James Boswell

I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane. — Robert Boswell

Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows. — Thomas Boswell

I am lost without my Boswell.
[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] — Arthur Conan Doyle

I say the moon in the night in which we live illuminates — Britt Boswell

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around. — Robert Boswell

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. — James Boswell

You got secrets you better keep
Take flight before she cuts you deep
- Sam's song — Helen Boswell

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. — James Boswell

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. — James Boswell

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others. — Robert Boswell

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals. — Leonard Boswell

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. — Nelson Boswell

Just call me the Boswell of the Krull Gang. — Richard Laymon

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order. — James Boswell

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should. — James Boswell

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it. — James Boswell

He has a beauty to him that is not quite angelic, a quality that's both ethereal and dark. (Jonathan) — Helen Boswell

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. — Leonard Boswell

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. — James Boswell

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. — James Boswell

In every picture there should be shade as well as light. — James Boswell

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. — James Boswell

And besides, I don't design my smiles to be nets because I'm not fishing — Roseanna Boswell

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. — James Boswell

He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden? — James Boswell

A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all. — James Boswell

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man. — James Boswell

Here is the simple but powerful rule ... always give people more than they expect to get. — Nelson Boswell

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be. — James Boswell

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. — James Boswell

Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do. — Thomas Boswell

Nothing truly lasts forever, not even immortals. - Jonathan. — Helen Boswell

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want. — Nelson Boswell

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. — James Boswell

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. — James Boswell

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way. — Robert Boswell

Her physical beauty had initially caught my attention, but it was her spirit that imprisoned my heart and soul forever. - Jonathan — Helen Boswell

Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt. — Thomas Boswell

Life has much uneasiness; that is certain. Always remember that, and it will never surprise you. - James Boswell — Mason Currey

With that he lifted her off him and deposited — Ben Boswell

We must take our friends as they are. — James Boswell

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical. — James Boswell

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success. — Thomas Boswell

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists. — Thomas Boswell

One must be strict even in little things. — James Boswell

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none. — James Boswell

Giving someone a piece of your soul is better than giving a piece of your heart. Because souls are eternal. — Helen Boswell

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear. — James Boswell

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. — James Boswell

Code should be written to minimize the time it would take for someone else to understand it. — Dustin Boswell

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous. — James Boswell

Ideology is the light that creates darkness. — Robert Boswell

[B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played ... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container? — Thomas Boswell

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. — James Boswell

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it. — James Boswell

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it. — Thomas Boswell

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. — James Boswell

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind. — James Boswell

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. — Thomas Boswell

Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained. — John Boswell

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded. — Robert Boswell

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. — James Boswell

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush. — Thomas Boswell

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson. — James Boswell

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church. — James Boswell

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job. — Thomas Boswell

Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming. — Thomas Boswell

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers. — James Boswell

This is wrong. Out of this world wrong.
But then again, so am I. — Helen Boswell