“A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad.”
1st sentence of author’s preface in Gregory of Tours’ late 6th century The History of the Franks
“Economics is not a quantitative science like nuclear physics. It is not even an applied quantitative science like civil engineering. Rather, it is, at least in its origins, a moral science, even if most economists may be scandalized to discover this.”
Barry Cooper and Mebs Kanji, Governing in Post-Deficit Times: Alberta in the Klein Years
“Always endeavour to be really what you would wish to appear.”
A favourite maxim of his family according to Granville Sharp
“If at first you do succeed – try to hide your astonishment.” Harry F. Banks
“Life is for action. If we insist on proofs for everything, we shall never come to action: to act you must assume, and that assumption is faith.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman
“When I tried to prove Murphy’s Law, something always went wrong.” Top 20 Internet Tag Lines in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 4 #8
“A man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced when he finds that everything proves it.”
G.K. Chesterton
“What the people of that small island [England] have done during the past five hundred years has shaped the course of history in every corner of the world. Without a proper knowledge of the background of English history, you cannot understand what you read in the newspapers.”
Hendrick Van Loon The Story of Mankind