“History presents many occasions for citing Charles Peguy’s aphorism that God writes straight with crooked lines.”
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things August/September 2000
“Capitalism flourishes whenever it is not suppressed...
Michael Rothschild, Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism.
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
“Liquid sunshine”
What his mother always called pouring rain, according to Bill Clinton while presiding over the dedication of his presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas in a downpour, quoted in Maclean’s November 29, 2004
“It’s hard to argue with that kind of reasoning.”
John Robson (me) confronted with a ridiculous and belligerent argument, January 27, 2001
“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“It is better to play for nothing than to work for nothing.”
Adam Smith, quoted in Jan de Vries The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750
“I had a great idea this morning but I didn’t like it.”
A piece of “Samuel Goldwyn apocrypha” quoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 28, 2004