“Objects in history may be closer than they appear” “Eeyore for Vlad” on www.vladtepesblog.com 15/6/09
“My house, my car, my family may be a lot of responsibility, but I would rather take that responsibility than have any of you dating my wife or backing my car into phone poles or leaving your dirty socks on my bedroom floor. (Although when it comes to the kids, if any of you want to baby-sit for free, I’m willing to share.)” P.J. O’Rourke in Cato Policy Report July/August 2002
“Wherever formed, habit acts involuntarily, and without effort; and, it is only when you oppose it, that you find how powerful it has become…. The habit at first may seem to have no more strength than a spider’s web; but, once formed, it binds as with a chain of iron. The small events of life, taken singly, may seem exceedingly unimportant, like snow that falls silently, flake by flake; yet accumulated, these snow-flakes form the avalanche. Self-respect, self-help, application, industry, integrity – all are of the nature of habits, not beliefs…. as we grow older, a portion of our free activity and individuality becomes suspended in habit; our actions become of the nature of fate; and we are bound by the chains which we have woven around ourselves.” Samuel Smiles, Self-Help
“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online
“the divine ludicrousness of creation… the sensus lusus which lies at the heart of matter.” Robert Farrar Capon The Supper of the Lamb
“Cut the pizza in four pieces – I couldn’t eat six.” Yogi Berra, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 4 # 4 (Jan./Feb. 2001).
“Life. Consider the alternative.” Marshall McLuhan
“We shall never be rid of antiquity so long as we do not become barbarians again.” Jacob Burckhardt, Judgements on History and Historians