“People asked him [Thomas Edison, almost totally deaf from childhood] why he didn’t invent a hearing aid. Father always replied, ‘How much have you heard in the last twenty-four hours that you couldn’t do without?’ He followed this up with: ‘A man who has to shout can never tell a lie.’”
Edison’s son Charles in William Bennett The Book of Virtues
“for God, there are no throw-away people”
“Rev. André Drouin, a parish priest at Ste. Anne, a downtown Ottawa church” who worked among others with AIDS patients, quoted in Ottawa Citizen Dec. 1, 2000
“You’re so thin you’d have to stand twice in the same place to make a shadow!”
“Shorty” in Louis L’Amour The Trail to Seven Pines
“Why is it called tourist season if we can’t shoot at them?”
“More Unanswerables” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #4 (1-2/04)
“The human psyche and human nature are artful dodgers.”
Sen. Anne Cools in a speech in the Senate March 13, 2001, quoted in Hansard Vol. 139
“In one experiment, for example, a group of subjects is told that a man parked his car on an incline, after which it rolled down into a fire hydrant. Another group is told that the car rolled into a pedestrian. The members of the first group generally view the event as an accident; the second group holds the driver responsible.”
John Allen Paulos, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
“Ride on the nightmare, if you prefer such horseflesh; only do not let the nightmare ride on you.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 15, 2009, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #6 (4-5/07)
“In 1945... the vaunted thousand-year rule of the Third Reich came to a brutal end. Great cities lay in ruins. Millions were exterminated; millions more were displaced and starving. A demon in human flesh had put the whole apparatus of the modern state to work to eradicate God’s people. The last victim of every murderous demon is its human host, so staying true to Satanic form, in the final days of war, Hitler and his leading Nazi henchman pulled the trigger on their own demise.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!