“The satirist should dine alone, as much mistrusted by the left as by the right.” Al Martinez in the Los Angeles Times, quoted by “Social Studies” in the Globe & Mail July 13, 2004
“All wars arise from love or lust: the good man loves his country, or the bad man lusts after someone else’s country.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News September 14, 1907, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #5 (March 2006)
“The ‘wild’ west is ‘wild’ on purpose: that is, it is civilization on a holiday—one of the most civilized things possible. But barbarism trying to be ‘cultured’ – that is the real horror.” George Santayana “The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy” (a 1932 lecture at the University of California)
“Where troops have encamped/ There will brambles grow;/ In the wake of a mighty army/ Bad harvests follow without fail.” Lao Tzu
“There is one striking feature about [General and future President Ulysses S.] Grant’s orders: no matter how hurriedly he may write them on the field, no one ever has the slightest doubt as to their meaning, or ever has to read them over a second time to understand them.”
“General Meade’s chief of staff” quoted by Horace Porter Campaigning with Grant
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” Albert Einstein (“Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 9 2012)
“Some Catholic literature today practices a kind of doctrinal minimalism. Seeking to show how little one needs to believe, such apologetics gives the impression that belief is a burden rather than a privilege.” Avery Cardinal Dulles in First Things May 2004 (drawing on but not quoting Karl Barth)
“All over him like a cheap suit...” Play-by-play commentator on a Seattle-LA Clippers NBA game January 1, 1994 (I don’t know if it was original with him, but it’s where I first heard it)