"tough as goat guts"

Former New York Times editor Howell Raines (of his predecessor James Reston), quoted by Robert Fulford in National Post March 26, 2004

"Know Thyself"

The inscription on the temple at Delphi "ascribed to Apollo himself" according to Juvenal

“Feats were done, doubt it not, far-famed in Parish History; but to Universal History unknown.”

Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution

"You know, there is one thing you can trust everybody to do. You can trust everybody to put his interest above yours."

Armen Alchain, quoted by Milton Friedman

“He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."

George Herbert "three centuries ago" quoted by Terry O’Neill in British Columbia Report May 18, 1998

"an open mind, to be sure, should be open at both ends, like the foodpipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake."

Northrop Frye The Great Code

"Of course, like Nietzsche, the most famous of God’s assassins, he [Ivan Karamazov] ends in madness. But this is a risk worth running, and, faced with such tragic ends, the essential impulse of the absurd mind is to ask: 'What does that prove?'"

Camus "Absurd Creation" in The Myth of Sisyphus & Other Essays

"Energizer Bunny, arrested, charged with battery."

"Top 20 Internet Tag Lines" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)