“Happiness is not mostly pleasure; it is mostly victory.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Are you attacking my reputation?” “No, I’m just commenting on how low it is.”
An exchange I had the privilege of witnessing between two of my co-workers some years back.
“You may come to ask yourself, ‘What should I do today?’ in a manner that means ‘How could I use my time to make things better, instead of worse?’”
Jordan Peterson on Instagram (quoting himself and all upper-case in the post) November 11 2020
“You recall that Timothy was warned by St. Paul that anyone who neglects to provide for his own house (meaning his own family) has disowned the faith and is ‘worse than an infidel.’”
Margaret Thatcher to the Church of Scotland, quoted in Fr. James V. Schall Religion, Wealth and Poverty
“‘An angry man,’ said Confucius, ‘is always full of poison.’”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“One good thing about silence is that it can’t be repeated.”
Variously attributed online including anonymously.
“The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.”
President George W. Bush in his address to the nation on the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, quoted in OpinionJournal February 1 2003
“Invited to choose between two bad poets, Dr. Johnson said he declined to adjudicate the precedence between a louse and a flea.”
Mark Steyn in National Post June 28, 2001