“Don’t seek out the article ... I am assured that it is well worth the effort in avoiding!”
“A correspondent” quoted by a friend in an email
“There is an old saying that a man is a fool who can’t be angry, but a man is wise who won’t be angry.”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“You would think men had sworn allegiance to crime!”
Jupiter in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (specifically the 1st story “Lycaon” about a werewolf )
“All this has been rather silly, because as someone says, when you have an idea it has to be both feasible and effective.”
Chess coach Dan Heisman in his video “The Maung Lesson” around 17:40.
“If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”
Jordan Peterson on Instagram (all caps in the post) Nov. 18, 2020
“your mind is on vacation and your mouth is workin’ overtime”
Mose Alison in “Your mind is on vacation” on his 1976 album “Don’t worry about a thing” according to https://genius.com/Mose-allison-your-mind-is-on-vacation-lyrics
“To top off this public relations fiasco [getting lowly Mary pregnant, a poor girl despite her descent, then leaving her to explain the mess], this descent from the heavenly realm, we have the actual birth of the Son of God. What a botched, low-budget affair that was! Unbelievable! Born in a stable. The son of God in a manger – a feeding trough for slobbering cows! Incredible.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive! (regarding many ways God got his hands dirty lifting us out of the mire of our sins)
“She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B.”
An unnamed critic re “Katherine Hepburn in a Broadway performance”, quoted by George F. Will in National Post July 9, 2001 in order to apply the same insult to Holden Caulfield