“If a man thinks about his physical or moral state, he usually discovers that he is ill.”
Goethe, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail July 10, 2000
“Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Pleasure is the flower that fades, remembrance is the lasting perfume. Remembrances last longer than present realities; I have preserved blossoms for many years, but never fruits.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
“The headwaiter of an elegant restaurant recoiled in disgust as a man in boots, torn jeans and a leather jacket approached him. ‘Hey, man,’ he said, ‘where’s the bathroom?’ ‘Go down the hall and turn left,’ replied the headwaiter. ‘When you see the sign marked “Gentlemen,” pay no attention to it and go right on in.’”
From the Jokesmith, cited in Reader’s Digest, April 1997, quoted in “Quotes, Notes and Anecdotes (The Write File Quarterly)” Spring 1997
“My weakness as a traveler is that the world seems to me so amusing everywhere that it is hardly worthwhile to travel.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Outline of a City” in The Resurrection of Rome, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 12 #5 (March 2009)
In my latest National Post column I say the search for life in space is boooring because only life with photosynthesis is interesting and even if we find it, which seems highly unlikely, it won’t solve any of our moral or even technological problems here on Earth.
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask Erin O’Toole to consider just how far Canada has moved left politically and indeed culturally and intellectually in recent years, and whether he thinks this massive swing is good, bad or mixed, before deciding what he’d like to do about it.
“The problem with introspection is that it has no end; like Bottom’s dream in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it has no bottom.”
Philip K. Dick The Transmigration of Timothy Archer