“More haste, less speed”
Pandar to Troilus in Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde (of course in the translation... by Gollum among others).
“The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Roman Converts” in Dublin Review, January/March 1925, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)
“They were like cockroaches. It wasn’t what they ate or carried off, it was what they fell into and ruined.”
Bob Uecker and Mickey Herskowitz Catcher in the Wry (re losing to the hapless New York Mets in 1964)
“Travel, in the true sense, has become impossible in the large urban or urbanised district. All such places are alike, plastered with the same advertisements, blocked up with the same big shops, selling the same newspapers, attending the same schools.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Oct. 2, 1926, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)
“this link between art and the sacred stems from the very fibres of man in all civilizations; specialists in prehistorical times confirm this fact for us, and as early as the appearance of cave art…. Still today it is striking to see to what extent artistic impotence is connected to the absence of the sacred.”
Regine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle Ages
In my latest Nstional Post column I say the meaning of life is not to be found in the latest gadget even if it is a watch that can tell you your blood oxygen level every three seconds.