“it apparently takes social scientists much longer than poets or critics to realize that every mind is a primitive mind, whatever the varieties of social conditioning.”
Northrop Frye The Great Code
“She can never again take a step on to green grass without wondering if it is bog.”
Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair (regarding a character who experienced a sudden personal betrayal)
“Once, at a public meeting, some bad poet from out of the crowd handed Sulla an epigram the man had written about him, with every other line longer than it ought to be. Sulla, who was conducting an auction, immediately ordered a reward to be paid the scribbler from its proceeds – on the condition that he never wrote anything again!”
Cicero Selected Political Speeches
“The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.”
G.K. Chesterton, in Illustrated London News Feb. 2, 1924, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 #7 (June 1999)
“When the locusts come, they devour everything.”
Bob Uecker and Mickey Herskowitz. Catcher in the Wry
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
“Chinese proverb” quoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 9, 2008
“Is the normal human need, the normal human condition, higher or lower than those special states of the soul which call out a doubtful and dangerous glory? Those special powers of knowledge or sacrifice which are made possible only by the existence of evil? Which should come first to our affections, the enduring sanities of peace or the half-maniacal virtues of battle? Which should come first, the man great in the daily round or the man great in emergency? Which should come first, to return to the enigma before me, the grocer or the chemist”
Adam Wayne in G.K. Chesterton The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Recently I had a chat with Rod Taylor and Peter Vogel of the CHP on Canada’s true history, an inspiring tale of freedom defended and entrenched over centuries. If you doubt it, I invite you to watch my documentaries.
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