“Oh Matthew, isn’t it a wonderful morning? The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn’t it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath – pouf! I’m so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren’t you?”
Anne in Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables [Anne having saved a sick baby the night before]
In my latest Mercatornet column I say Biden’s hackneyed Inaugural speech may do no harm. But it did not rise to the occasion like, say, Lincoln’s magnificent Second Inaugural and did not even really seem to try.
In my latest National Post column I say Erin O’Toole’s boast about being pragmatic and moderate amounts to saying he has no convictions and cannot be counted on by anyone for anything, and trying to make it sound like an achievement. But it’s not.
In my latest Epoch Times column, I say recent revelations about national security breaches and governmental nonchalance ought to worry Canadians a lot more than they apparently do.
“I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.”
Bobby Fischer, quoted on Agadmator's YouTube channel.
“He was rude and unhygienic.”
“The robot head in Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories Jan. 1, 1999” [It’s the source I recorded and I’m sticking to it although I can offer no justification for ever having watched an episode (or even knowing the show existed, which in fact I’d forgotten) except that as summaries of someone’s undesirability go this line is excellent. Google confirms that the show existed and lasted four seasons (!) and says the robot head’s name was 790 and who am I to argue?]
“Happy the man, and happy he alone,/ He, who can call today his own:/ He who, secure within, can say: ‘Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d today.’”
The Roman poet Horace, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.”
George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living