“The most neglected history is recent history.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Luke Sharp in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2004)
“No society can be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged.”
Adam Smith, quoted in Lionel Robbins The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy
“Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.”
Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts
“The whole universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Once abolish God, and the government becomes the God.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Christendom in Dublin” quoted by Noah Morey in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #1 (September 2004)
“This [race] is as tight as the rusted lug nuts on a '55 Ford.”
“Rather’s Familiar Quotations” [Dan Rather] in The Atlantic Monthly March 2005
Re the title character, a dog, doing things like hunting, fighting, being full, lying in the sun etc. “They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.”
Jack London White Fang
“I think that, as life is passion and action, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
“U.S. judge, and Civil War veteran, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.” quoted by Christie Blatchford in Globe & Mail July 7, 2006 [filing from Kandahar, Afghanistan]