“We are as Hector on the walls of Troy with Andromache and always have been. Only the Crystal Palace and all those nineteenth-century trust funds ever assured us otherwise.”
An author whose name I did not record in Chronicles magazine October 1991
“The improvements in transportation do not cut down travelling time but merely increase the area over which people have to travel."
Bertrand Russell, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail December 12, 2003
“It is a good thing to suffer fools gladly; and an even better thing to enjoy fools uproariously.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News October 9, 1920, quoted in “Chesterton Rewrites more of the Classic Lines” in Gilbert Magazine July-August 2007
"In order to explore new horizons, one must not be afraid to lose sight of the shore."
Quoted without specific attribution in the author’s introduction to Jean-Serge Brisson Tea Party of One
“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
John Stuart Mill, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail February 15, 2002
“He is one of the undersung linebackers.”
Announcer on ABC Monday Night Football December 1, 1986
“I prefer to regard the sun merely in the light of a strange star that has startled me by visiting my garden in the middle of summer.”
G.K. Chesterton in “On the Solar System” in All I Survey, quoted by James V. Schall S.J. in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 16 # 1-2 (September-October 2012)
“If we dismiss the past as dead and not as a country of the living which our eyes are unable to see, then we are likely to become servile.”
“The southern agrarian Andrew Lytle" quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #3 (December 2002)