“We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.”
Francois, duc de La Rouchefoucauld, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“When I was a little boy, she [his grandmother] would sometimes haul me by the ear over to the kitchen window and point out the bright, beautiful morning, saying, ‘Now, boy, we’ll pay for this.’”
Larry Pratt in Globe & Mail May 18, 1999
“happiness is an end and pleasure can only be a means.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News April 27, 1912 quoted in “Chesterton’s Mail Bag” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #8 (July-August 2005)
“The boyfriend...is the heroin- and cocaine-addicted musician, burglar and all-around yuck-bomb”
Rebecca Traister in Ottawa Citizen Oct. 16, 2005
“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather that it never had a beginning.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman, quoted in Paul Pearsall, The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need: Repress your anger, think negatively, be a good blamer, & throttle your inner child
“all men naturally love freedom and hate servitude…”
Julius Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul
“When good economists die, they come back as physicists. When bad economists die, they come back as sociologists. It is an old joke, but class envy is no stranger to academics: Everyone wants to go up-market in the rigour wars.”
Paul Kedrosky in National Review May 5, 2001
“I’m covered with loser dust.”
Courtney Love, quoted in Ottawa Sun April 16, 2004