“your fish is not fried fish till caught”
The Chorus in Aristophanes The Clouds
“Give your brain as much attention as you do your hair and you'll be a thousand times better off.”
Malcolm X (widely quoted online; I was first alerted to it in a paraphrase in the Ottawa Citizen March 7, 1999)
In my latest National Post column I say churches should not get tax breaks, not because of residential schools but because nobody should.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say a smashed statue is a sadly fitting monument to a society that lets mobs trample over debate and voting to smash memorials because they can’t tell Queen Victoria from Hitler.
“As for Gussie Fink-Nottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.”
P.G. Wodehouse, quoted by Joseph Bottum in First Things #156 (October 2005)
“but that is the way fear serves us: It always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”
George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin
“I hate a man who swallows [food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.”
Charles Lamb, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail December 20, 2002
“His head, once shaven, was covered with stubble, uniform with his chin, like a clipped yew in a neglected garden.”
Evelyn Waugh Scoop