“He who laughs last, thinks slowest.” “Top 15 Taglines From the Internet” in Gilbert! Vol. 3 No. 4 (Jan/Feb. 2000)
“As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendency in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.” John Stuart Mill, quoted by George Jonas in Beethoven’s Mask
“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.” G.K. Chesterton in “The Way of the Desert” in The New Jerusalem
“Unfortunately this was one of those cases where the long term arrived much sooner than expected.” David Frum in National Post January 1, 2001
“‘My friend,’ I said, ‘you can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.’” Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.” Ecclesiastes IX:11
“1. The whole management and direction of human life depends upon the question whether or not there is a God and a future state of human existence. If there is a God, but no future state, God is nothing to us. If there is a future state, but no God, we can form no rational guess about the future state. 2. If there is no God and no future state, reasonable men will regulate their conduct either by inclination or by common utilitarianism. 3. If there is a God and a future state, rational men will regulate their conduct by a wider kind of utilitarianism. 4. By whatever rule they regulate their conduct, no room is left for any rational enthusiasm for the order of ideas hinted at by the phrase ‘Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity’…” James Fitzjames Stephen in Liberty Equality Fraternity
“It’s not an optical illusion. It just looks like one.” “Top 20 Internet Tag Lines” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)