“Idleness… is the holiday of fools.”
From a fortune cookie I got c. 1993 - the Internet says it’s actually from Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773). I originally had it without the elision but while that version circulates, I’m credibly informed that the proper full quotation is “Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.” (Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/299455-idleness-is-only-the-refuge-of-weak-minds-and-the)
“Liberty underlies the entire enterprise; it’s not just one more vector in an indifference curve.”
Walter Block in Michael A. Walker, ed. Freedom Democracy and Economic Welfare: Proceedings of an International Symposium
“Variety is the spice of life – but monotony buys the groceries.”
D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”
In my latest National Post column I say it’s important to stand up for ourselves and our values over Ukraine without blundering, or sauntering, into a nuclear war… and if you think it’s hard, congratulations, you’re a grownup who realizes reality is tricky.
“Time is money? Got it ‘A U.S. inventor has created an alarm clock that shreds your money if you fail to get up to turn it off,’ says Orange Co. U.K. ‘Rich Olson combined a Sparkfun Clockit and a USB paper shredder to create the bizarre machine. He programmed the device to tear up a $1 bill if the user doesn’t turn it off within a few seconds.’”
“Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 19, 2013
In my latest Epoch Times column I say a small news item about overfishing squid actually speaks volumes about what’s wrong with the world today and with how we think about it, especially government.
In my latest National Post “Platformed” newsletter I say it’s absurd, especially now, for Canadian pundits to be fussing over the possible tactical positioning of Jean Charest for a possible Tory leadership run instead of asking him what he actually thinks about the issues and his underlying philosophy, for instance about national defence.
“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the d***ed fools said would happen has come to pass.”
Lord Melbourne, quoted in British Columbia Report November 18, 1996.