“America is one of the world’s pivotal points: the future of man is at stake here. To like America, or not to like her: these words are meaningless. Here is a battlefield, and one can only be stirred by the struggle she carries on within herself, a struggle whose stakes are beyond measure.”
Simone de Beauvoir America Day by Day
“‘Wot’s wot?’ repeated one of the buccaneers in a deep growl. ‘Ah, he’d be a lucky one as knowed that!’
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.” Will Rogers
“When most Canadians say ‘Canada,’ they are referring not just to the rocks and dirt that make up the Canadian landmass. They mean Canada’s constitutional government, its democratic society, its freedoms.”
David Frum in National Post 20/12/05
“Life is not a final. It’s a daily pop quiz.” Anonymous
“Naebody gits to this age wishin’ they’d din mair worryin’.” His Scots grandfather at age 96 (puffing on his pipe) quoted by Jim Coyle in the Toronto Star October 24 1998
“Faith is no refuge for the faint-hearted.”
Pope Francis in Lumen fidei
“The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”
Lord Halifax (1633-95)
