“Sour grapes make bitter wine.”
Letter from Nancy Sturdevant of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen July 3, 2004
“doctors joke about a test for insanity: Put someone in a room with an overflowing sink and a mop. And then see if he tries to mop up the mess - or just turns off the tap.”
Peter Brimelow in National Review April 7, 1997
“To judge rightly of the present we must oppose it to the past; for all judgement is comparative, and of the future nothing can be known.’“
Imlac in Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas
“It is because the free market serves evil as well as good that many people think they can rid society of evil by slaying this faithful, amoral servant.”
Read, Leonard E., Let Freedom Reign
“He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.”
Lao-Tzu [e-mailed by a friend without further attribution]
“A pessimist is one who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.”
Elbert Hubbard, quoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Sept. 13, 2004
“Liberty, next to religion, has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race.”
Start of Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton) The History of Freedom
Suzanne: “Rob, don’t talk to me when I’m at my wits’ end."
Rob (to Tina): "… Is Suzanne ever at her wits’ beginning?”
Tina: “It’s a very narrow window of opportunity…"
“Tina’s Groove” comic strip in Ottawa Citizen March 9, 2004