"the further back you look, the further ahead in the future you can see."
Winston Churchill, quoted by Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon in Cato Policy Analysis #364 (Dec. 15, 1999)
"We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile."
Hilaire Belloc, quoted in “The Catholic Buckley” in George William Rutler He Spoke to Us, saying they were "written after gazing upon the ruins of Timgad in North Africa, a city destroyed by the Vandals”
"If you put new ideas before the eyes of fools/ They’ll think you foolish and worthless into the bargain"
Medea in Euripedes Medea
"Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen."
Dax Shepard, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html
"It is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the Government. Once abolish God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history."
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #5 (March 2002)
"Your sheep’s clothing is slipping."
Eric Ambler, The Intercom Conspiracy, quoted as one of the "Top Ten Detective Fiction Wise Cracks" compiled by "Gramps" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 #6 Issue 15 (April/May 1999)
"A useless life is an early death."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The classical adage Historia est magistra vitae – ‘History is the teacher of life’...”
Richard Pipes in National Review January 24, 2000