"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness."
John Wanamaker
"What we have in view here is the conviction that one must play God if the Creator is not Judge and Healer too."
J. Budziszewski in First Things June-July 2002-7/02 p. 29.
“I can assure you that no person would be better for the job.”
Ralph C. Maddocks (this from my "he's an extraordinary man" file of hidden insults - the original is Inspector Dreyfus re Clouseau in A Shot In The Dark)
"These [nursery] tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water."
G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy
"What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?"
Thomas Sowell in Is Reality Optional?
"If you subsidize a thing, you’re going to get it."
Dinesh D’Souza in Chronicles magazine September 1991.
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
Henri-Fréderic Amiel in Journal intime
"But, when infection is about, an open mind is about as safe as an open sewer."
Nicholas Murray in The Sunday Times April 7, 2002 (specifically re Aldous Huxley succumbing to so many cranky notions before and after moving to California)