His father: “How’d I do?” Barney: “I think you made an unforgettable impression.”
Mordecai Richler Barney's Version (After his vulgar father totally offends his new in-laws)
“It is easy to despise what you cannot get."
Aesop, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“Kim: They [some Englishmen they just met] are only uncurried donkeys.” The lama: “Then it is not well to make a jest of their ignorance.”
Rudyard Kipling Kim
“What is a human life worth unless it is incorporated into the lives of one’s ancestors and set in a historical context?"
Cicero, quoted in Andrew Nikiforuk School's Out
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)
Re George Macdonald Fraser’s Flashman series: “Alfred Knopf said of the first book (and, being the shrewdest of publishers, meant it as a compliment) that he hadn’t heard such a voice in fifty years.”
A writer whose name I failed to record in National Review July 10, 1995