“A man who shows no resentment at being slapped is overwhelmed with insults and forced into need.”
Blaise Pascal Pensées
“A man is destroyed by the inner conviction of uselessness.”
E.B. Schumacher Small is Beautiful
“a sleeping fool may pass for a wise man.”
One of the minor villains in Sax Rohmer The Trail of Fu Manchu
“If the word of the Lord stands forever, why do so many Christians discount the Old Testament Scriptures? They may be Scriptures, but we discount them. They have been dumped into the half-off bin at the back of our scriptural storehouse. Actually, they’re in the front of the Bible, but for many of us, they’re in that unused, unread portion. Mentally, we have moved them to the back forty. They have become the back forty-four – out of sight and out of mind. But the words of Psalm 119 break into our mind.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!
“A man who looks as though he’s been raised by wolves”.
Val Sears in the Ottawa Sun February 24, 1999 (about Peter Gzowski, who he liked)
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot/ That it do singe yourself.”
Shakespeare, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“For it is the nature of the many to be ruled by fear rather than by shame, and to refrain from evil not because of the disgrace but because of the punishments. Living under the sway of their feelings, they pursue their own pleasures and the means of obtaining them, and shun the pains that are their opposites; but of that which is fine and truly pleasurable they have not even a conception, because they have never had a taste of it.”
Aristotle Ethics
“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.”
Charles Dickens, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail June 20, 2000