“To horse, to horse! urge doubts to them that fear.”
Lord Ross, among those making up their minds to abandon Richard II for Bolingbroke, in William Shakespeare The Life and Death of King Richard II Act II Scene ii.
“A hasty general is the worst of generals nowadays; the best is a sort of von Moltke, who is passive if any man ever was passive; who is ‘silent in seven languages’…”
Walter Bagehot Physics and Politics
“you’re as ugly as the mornin’ after payday in a minin’ town.”
“Milligan” in Louis L’Amour The Trail to Seven Pines
“This positions us as a grand city where grand things happen.”
Alejandro Rojas Diaz, Mexico City’s tourism secretary, “who organized an event at which 12,937 people danced to Michael Jackson's ‘Thriller’ in pursuit of a world record”, as the “Quotation of the Day” in “Today’s Headlines” e-mail from New York Times September 8 2009
“Most men are bad.”
“A saying often attributed to” Bias of Priene according to Peter D’Epiro and Mary Desmond Pinkowish What are the Seven Wonders of the World? (“along with the advice to live as if our live span will be both long and short.”)
“Nous n’avouons de petits défauts que pour persuader que nous n’en avons pas de grands.”
Réflexions morales #327 in La Rochefoucauld Maximes
“Hair-dos and hair-don’ts.”
Quoting myself again, a thought inspired by I recall not what in August 2001 but certainly reinforced by my own appearance during the lockdown.
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
Charlie Chaplin, quoted in Globe & Mail March 24, 1999