"Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful."
Aldous Huxley, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail July 8, 2004
A putt "scurrying across the green like a rat on fire."
An announcer on TBS August 15 1992
In my latest National Post column I call the willingness even of a sizeable minority of Britons to vote for a Labour Party headed by the appalling Jeremy Corbyn a worrying sign of loss of the self-control on which self-government depends throughout the Western world.
"Lightheartedness is a treasure in a world too full of sorrows." Tor Kelsey in Dick Francis The Edge, quoted in "Gilbert’s Top Dozen Pearls of Detective Wisdom" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #3
"The best I can give you is a definite maybe." Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #3 (Dec. 2000)
"Six centuries is not such a very long time in the history of the world…" Hugh Braun The English Castle
"Begin by looking at everything from the moral point of view, and you will end by believing in God." Thomas Arnold, famous headmaster of Rugby school and father of Matthew Arnold, quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb The De-moralization of Society