'Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools’ shoes."
Charlie Chan, according to a biography of Chan's creator Earl Derr Biggers I found on an AOL group on October 26, 2006
'Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools’ shoes."
Charlie Chan, according to a biography of Chan's creator Earl Derr Biggers I found on an AOL group on October 26, 2006
"The late Jimmy 'Schnozzle’ Durante memorably exposed the flaw in this logic: 'They said that Hitler was mad. They said that Napoleon was mad. They said that Louie was mad.' Interjection: 'Who’s Louie?' Durante: 'My uncle. He was mad.'"
Editorial in National Post December 27, 1999
"I see well enough now that I hoped for the impossible – for the laying of what is the most obstinate ghost of man’s creation, of the uneasy doubt uprising like a mist, secret and gnawing like a worm, and more chilling than the certitude of death – the doubt of the sovereign power enthroned in a fixed standard of conduct."
The narrator, Marlow, in Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
"Are you tired of always getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop?"
The plug for some show on YTV in January 1996 [that's all I recorded of the source]
For those of you who subscribe to my weekly newsletter, I'm having some sort of issue with the Mailchimp account so it won't be sent out this week. I hope to have it resolved shortly, and thanks for your patience.
P.S. If it had gone out it would have said:
"The August long weekend was devoted to not reading the newspaper at a family cottage reunion, so I took the week off from National Post writing in favour of the kids winning a few ribbons in the local regatta. But I did post an “Ask the Professor” on governments driven by utilitarian calculations rather than devotion to liberty and I wrapped up the week with my regular appearance on News Talk Radio CFRA 580 in Ottawa with Rob Snow.
"Another reminder that this Nov. 11 marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, which I argue in The Great War Remembered was the pivotal event in modern history, playing a far greater role in shaping the intellectual, cultural and even moral as well as geopolitical climate even than World War II. It’s free on YouTube and it and all the other DVDs, digital downloads and books including Magna Carta: Our Shared Legacy of Liberty are available in my online store."
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
Sydney Harris, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail August 5, 2009