“the general rule that when people are talking like fools they are thinking like fools.”
A note sent to myself October 23, 2020 on watching a certain Canadian cabinet minister in action
“It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program – on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off – than on any positive task.”
Friedrich Hayek The Road to Serfdom
“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