“Canada’s bronze medal a moment to be savoured”
National Post September 12, 2023 [1st page of the Sports section].
In my latest Mercatornet column I ask how Americans reached this dreadful pass and what any of us can do about it.
“The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 4 (March-April 2023) – the context was a long-ago crisis in the affairs of the famous jeweler Tiffany’s.
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus.”
Bruce Lee, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)
“Help your pieces so they can help you.”
19th-century chess genius Paul Morphy, widely quoted online [for instance at https://quotefancy.com/quote/1661408/Paul-Morphy-Help-your-pieces-so-they-can-help-you]
“Everyone has a grievance. These days soliciters are offended if you merely politely decline to talk with them. Person at the door: Are you J. Budziszewski? Me: Who are you? Person: Are you J. Budziszewski? Me: Who are you? Person: Do you have such-and-such in your house? Me: Are you selling something? Person: Do you have such-and-such in your house? Me: Are you selling something? Person: [Long pause.] Not necessarily. Me: Thank you. I’m not interested. [I quietly close the door.] - I can understand why the soliciter was frustrated. It’s harder to make a sale when you are forced to begin by saying that you want to. What I don’t understand is why she was offended. This is my house.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto]
“a social worker pointedly said: ‘Your problem is you want to play all of the strings of your violin at once.’ These words haunt me, and it took years to come to terms with the truth…”
Shelley Page in Ottawa Citizen Citizen’s Weekly March 16, 2003
“It was a wise instinct by which heaven was symbolized by wings that are free as the wind, and hell symbolized by chains.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News February 15, 1930, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)