“If you can’t tie your shoelaces under pressure but play like a world-beater as soon as it’s too late, that’s worse in the dugout than being a no-talent klutz. That is called taking the apple.”
Thomas Boswell How Life Imitates the World Series
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Well, bucko, that's gonna do us about as much good as a football bat.”
“Reader William White” quoted in the Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal July 12, 2004 [White could not remember who originally said it]
“The greater part of the world has, properly speaking, no history, because the despotism of custom is complete.”
John Stuart Mill On Liberty
“Economics is about how people make choices, the economist James Duesenberry remarked in the 1950s, and sociology is about how they don’t have any choices to make.”
The New Republic Feb. 5 1990 [I did not record the author’s name]
“The reigning error of his life, was that he mistook the love for the practice of virtue, and was indeed not so much a good man, as the friend of goodness.”
Samuel Johnson in his Life of Richard Savage
“If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”
Unknown
“we need to recognize that another religion will have another morality, and that in so far as there is a division of morality, there will be some division of sympathy. The Victorians talked as if religion were not merely a private affair but a family joke; a personal accident that could have no effect at all upon public action.”
G.K. Chesterton “A Modern Bigotry”, in G.K.’s Weekly 19/12/31, reprinted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 17 #8 (July/August 2014)