“Never get mad at anybody for knowing more than you do. It’s not their fault.”
“Elizabethtown (KENTUCKY) News” quoted in “Other Suspects I Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
“Tim Flannery’s predictions have aged like fine milk.”
“Topher Project Ep 110” commentary by Topher Field on Flannery’s recurring media-friendly predictions that Australia would succumb to drought 4/7/25 [https://youtu.be/5tatwHXlk6M?t=230]
“Chef Andrew Gruel”
The subject of a sponsored email via Human Events August 8, 2025 from the American Conservation Coalition, on “A Chef’s Take: How we fix our food and our planet”
“People say they fear public speaking almost as much as death (which raises the question why there aren’t more horror movies with names like ‘Podium’ and ‘Dry Mouth 2’).”
Andrew Palmer “Bartleby columnist” in The Economist September 13, 2025
“The unsigned articles appearing in this magazine sometimes represent the views of the editor – and frequently of no one else.”
“FRANK E. MASLAND, JR.” quoted in “Other Suspects – V” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“No theories and no pedantic statistics will ever prevent ordinary people from finding a meaning and a literature in their own lives: great tragedy when the baby dies; great comedy when the baby tries to eat the soap. We always take ourselves seriously; it is only learned men, in huge books, who take us frivolously, and make us feel like a swarm of flies.”
G.K. Chesterton in London Opinion April 2 1904, quoted in “Statistics” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“In Biblical days it was considered a miracle for an ass to speak; but today it would be a miracle if one kept quiet.”
“POSSIBLY FROM SOMEONE IN MISSOURI, OR ELSE ABOUT SOMEONE IN MISSOURI” quoted in “Other Suspects – V” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025) p. 23.
“An Eskimo woman is old at forty. An American woman is not old at forty. In fact, she’s not even forty.”
“An explorer” quoted in “Other Suspects – II Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)