“To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.”
Oscar Homolka
“He who loves the Workman and His work, and does what he can to preserve and improve it, shall be accepted of Him.”
John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson late in their lives, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things December 2001
“It’s déjà vu all over again.” Yogi Berra
“Evening/ Here dies another day/ During which I have had eyes, ears, hands/ And the great world round me;/ And with tomorrow begins another./ Why am I allowed two?” G.K. Chesterton The Collected Poetry - Part One (Vol. X of the Collected Works of Chesterton from Ignatius Press)
“Of course, there are no final happy endings in history, because history does not end. But Reagan offered Americans an opportunity to open a fresh chapter…” Paul Johnson
“You know what they say: ‘don’t ask your barber if you need a haircut.’” Alan Cassels
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”
Samuel Johnson
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous Huxley