“Tourists don’t know where they have been, and travellers don’t know where they are going.”
Paul Theroux quoted by James Michael Dorsey in The Christian Science Monitor requoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 17, 2013
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
Widely attributed to Confucius online, but no site I found offers any further source details
“I suppose everyone knows this fear of getting ‘drawn in’, the moment at which a man realizes that what had seemed mere speculations are on the point of landing him in the Communist Party or the Christian Church – the sense that a door has just slammed and left him on the inside.”
C.S. Lewis Perelandra
“’I suppose there are two views about everything,’ said Mark. ‘Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.’”
Mark Studdock and William “Bill the Blizzard” Hingest in C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
Winston Churchill, quoted on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/721301-fear-is-a-reaction-courage-is-a-decision
“Diseases enter by the mouth, misfortune issues from it.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
“cast into the furnace of contempt.”
Robert B. Heilman “Freedom from Speech” in Jack E. Conner & Marcelline Krafchick, eds., Speaking of Rhetoric
In my latest National Post column I say the inability to vaccinate in a pandemic isn’t isolated, it’s part of an overall crisis of governmental competence made worse by self-satisfaction and complacency.