“Perhaps the world is divided into those who laugh first and think afterwards, and those who think first and laugh afterwards.”
G.K. Chesterton in American Review September 1935, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008)
“To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child.”
Cicero, quoted in Andrew Nikiforuk School's Out: The Catastrophe in Public Education
“Mr. [Mark] Kingwell’s jaundiced view is ultimately based on that non-existent wraith, ‘economic man,’ a lobotomized Scrooge on a shopping spree.”
Peter Foster in National Post February 12, 1999
“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”
“George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 8, 2012
“Fools are wise until they speak.”
Randle Cotgrave, quoted in “Random Foolish Quotations” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 # 7 (June 2004)
“It is perhaps not altogether a coincidence that the year 1882, in which Darwin died, found Nietzsche proclaiming that ‘God is dead… and we have killed him.’”
Dan Peterson “What’s the Big Deal about Intelligent Design” in The American Spectator December 2005-January 2006
“Two words: Ug Lee”
Teaser to feature on the Pontiac “Aztek” in Ottawa Citizen July 18, 2003 (which contained the more complete “’Two words describe its physical appearance – Ug Lee.’ John Heilig, Familycar.com.”)
“The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.”
Horace Walpole, possibly according to Horace Walpole - Wikiquote borrowed from Jean de La Bruyère’s unsourced: “Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think”.