“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, quoted on www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dietrich_bonhoeffer_164002
“Stupidity is pretty easy to spot, but intelligence can be quite an elusive trait to define.”
Stephen Reucroft and John Swain “in The Boston Globe.” quoted in Globe & Mail Nov. 16, 2001
“Everything Milton [Friedman] touches has the feel of his optimism…”
William F. Buckley, Jr. in National Review July 18, 2005 [at which point Friedman was 93]
“It is certainly one of the things that we can’t not know that no one may deliberately take innocent human life. The more particular doctrine of man as the created image of God seems unknown beyond the bible’s sphere of influence; it is not one of the things we can’t not know. Some intuition of the sacredness of human life is universal nonetheless…”
J. Budziszewski What We Can’t Not Know
“How do you do, Miss West?"
Mae West: "How do you do what?”
Harmik Vaishnav, Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
“Awe-full life”
Recommended, especially in old age, by Paul Pearsall in The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need: Repress your anger, think negatively, be a good blamer, & throttle your inner child.
“Mr Wirt: What do you think is going to happen in the next few years of history, Mr Lewis?”
“Lewis: I have no way of knowing. My primary field is the past. I travel with my back to the engine, and that makes it difficult when you try to steer.”
C.S. Lewis “Cross-Examination” in The Grand Miracle
“Gambling is a tax for people who can’t do math.”
Variously attributed in various forms, sometimes singling out lotteries.