"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Noelie Altito
 

"Et ce n’est pas important la guerre des moutons et des fleurs?"

The prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Le Petit Prince

We should "learn from history, not be obsessed by it"

Queen Elizabeth II in a speech in Berlin on Nov. 2, 2004, quoted in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 3 2004

"I rather like materialism. The poor need it."

"V.S. Naipaul, Nobel laureate in literature, answering a question from an audience in India”
 quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail August 12, 2009

"So far as I am able to discern, there are only two kinds of strong-willed people: saints and psychopaths. According to the ancient understanding, the former have made a pact with God, the latter with the Devil. The modern understanding is, nature and/or nurture on both sides. As ever, the ancient understanding is correct."

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen Jan. 3, 2009

"Do unto others as they would like to be done unto"

Attributed to "various U.S. management consultants” in Globe and Mail March 10, 2000 p. A18.

"the telescope through which we can see the star upon which we dwell."

G.K. Chesterton defining religion, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #1 (Sept. 2004)

"I would rather lick fire ants off a stick..."

Blogger Dale Franks of QandO.net re a now forgotten piece of political maneuvering, quoted by John Fund in The American Spectator March 2006