39 Quotes by John Bartlett

The earnings have been mixed. Given the valuations in the technology sector, I think it is causing portfolio managers to get a little nervous and take some profits.

Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended.

To resist him that is set in authority is evil

You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.

Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend!

Reservation should be under 'Bartlett.' Right, that's two T's. Yes. 'Bart-let-et.'

An antique is anything old with class.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with it's subject.

An infant crying in th night,/ An infant crying for the light / And with no language but a cry.