“The trouble with many travellers is that they take themselves along.”
Joseph Prescott, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Sept. 26, 2005
“There is a game of April Fool that’s played behind its door,/ Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more”.
G.K. Chesterton “The Aristocrat” with respect to the Devil’s “little place at What’sitsname (it isn’t far away)”
“There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.”
“French saying” quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail April 19, 2012
“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
Heraclitus, quoted without further attribution in email from the Epoch Times Nov. 20, 2020
“I am not certain that brevity is the soul of wit, but brevity is an excellent substitute for wit.”
G.K. Chesterton in New York Times April 10, 1921, quoted in Gilbert! magazine vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)
“I want to go; God take me.”
Dwight Eisenhower to his sons John and David and his wife Mamie at his bedside in a "Famous Last Words" calendar I had in 2003
“Bad memory image of FAT detected”
A computer message I received in late 1993 from an improperly installed CD-ROM program, which then crashed (it’s funny because it’s certainly true of me personally)
“tourist: the sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Roman Converts” in Dublin Review January-March 1925, quoted in “Chesternitions” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)