"The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved."

Russell Lynes, in "Thought du jour" in Globe and Mail July 26, 2001

"Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for bold action?"

Bruce Wayne in the original 1966 Batman movie

"newspapers are fond of referring to the ‘dust-bin of history,’ a notion they borrow not from Karl Marx, as they think, but from an English writer and member of Parliament, August Birrell. On inspection the bin is much less full than is commonly believed. The repeats and returns in the last five centuries have been frequent."

Jacques Barzun From Dawn to Decadence

"When the economic chickens come home to roost, they tend to arrive in flocks."

Editorial in National Post August 12, 2015

"It’s okay to say what you think as long as you have thought."

Brent Dyment (an "honourable mention" in a readers’ "Thought du Jour" contest in Globe and Mail Nov. 29 2002)

"Now there’s a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!"

Groucho Marx

 "I know a man who has such a passion for proving that he will have no personal existence after death that he falls back on the position that he has no personal existence now. He invokes Buddhism and says that all souls fade into each other; in order to prove that he cannot go to heaven he proves that he cannot go to Hartlepool."

G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy p. 344.

"My usual plan in a new city is to wander, blend in and observe. In Hanoi, I might as well have been 50 lb. of bratwurst trying to blend into a kennel."

Steve Burgess in Maclean’s Feb. 28 2005