"Tout le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement."
La Rochefoucauld Réflexions morales #89 in Maximes

"The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past."

C.S. Lewis, quoted in "Thought du jour" in Globe and Mail May 19, 200319/5/03 p. A14.

"As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight."

Thomas Paine in Common Sense, quoted in the "Founder’s Quote Daily" from The Patriot Post July 16, 2010

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."

Albert Einstein, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail May 20, 2010

"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