“It would be no sort of a life if we felt entirely comfortable in it.”
P.J. Kavanaugh, quoted in The Economist May 5, 1990
“But as Harry Truman used to say, the only thing new is the history we have not read yet.”
Hadley Arkes in National Review August 3, 1992
“It is only the fetish of some economists (e.g., Hirshleifer, 1985) that rejects the idea that one person’s self-interest cannot include the welfare of others.”
W.T. Stanbury in Walter Block and George Lerner, eds., Breaking the Shackles: Deregulating Canadian Industry
“A neurosis is a secret you don’t know you’re keeping.”
Kenneth Tynan quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 4, 2005
“The haves and the have-nots can be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.”
D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”
“In 1867, Matthew Arnold heard the ‘melancholy, long, withdrawing roar’ of the Sea of Faith.”
Charles J. Sykes, A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character
“Someone once defined ‘committee’ as a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.”
A writer whose name I did not record in Chronicles magazine December 1990
“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”
Henry David Thoreau to his graduating class at Harvard, 1837, cited by Wendell Berry in a sermon reprinted in Harpers magazine March 1988