“You must hand over the world to those who believe the world is workable.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Return to Religion” in The Well and the Shallows, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #7 (June-July 2007)
“And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?” Benjamin Franklin, “Motion for Prayers in the Constitutional Convention” June 28, 1787, in The Patriot Post “Founders’ Quote Daily” April 27, 2007
“The oldest rule in economics, [U.S.] CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said on Tuesday, is ‘we cannot do everything.’”
Marcus Gee in Globe & Mail August 28 2003.
“The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.”
Bias, a Greek philosopher, around 570 BC
“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
Lily Tomlin
“The sceptics have no philosophy of life because they have no philosophy of death.”
G.K. Chesterton in English Life October 1924, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #7 (June 2008)
“Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.”
Mark Twain, “Notebook, published posthumously, 1935” in Joseph R. Conlin, ed., The Morrow Book of Quotations in American History
“Life doesn’t wait to be asked: it comes grinning in, sits down uninvited and helps itself to bread and cheese, and comments uninhibitedly on the decorations.” Philip Larkin