“Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly. Shut up he explained.”

Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrunts quoted by George F. Will in National Post August 24, 2002

“‘Let there be light!’ said God, and there was light! ‘Let there be blood,’ says man, and there’s a sea!’”

Lord Byron “Don Juan” quoted in Orlo Miller The Donnellys Must Die

“in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think good.”

Aristotle The Politics

“You are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.”

Norman Vincent Peale, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking’s something you can’t do judiciously, unless you keep in practice. Now, sir, we’ll talk if you like. I’ll tell you right out, I’m a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.”

Kaspar Gutman, “the Fat Man”, in The Maltese Falcon

“No possible complexity which we can give to our picture of the universe can hide us from God… We read in Revelation of Him that sat on the throne ‘from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.’ It may happen to any of us at any moment. In the twinkling of an eye, in a time to small to be measured, and in any place, all that seems to divide us from God can flee away, vanish, leaving us naked before Him, like the first man, like the only man, as if nothing but He and I existed. And since that contact cannot be avoided for long, and since it means either bliss or horror, the business of life is to learn to like it. That is the first and great commandment.”

C.S. Lewis God in the Dock

“Here at the ICA (the Institute for Confusing Acronyms)”

Here I yield shamelessly to the impulse to quote myself again, from Feb. 4 2003.

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.”

“Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 20, 2012