“Keep a stiff upper chin.”
Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)
“for the first of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever.”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
“He blunted us because he had no shape … he never did things by halves he could do by quarters.”
F.R. Scott, law professor, social democrat and poet, in a verse on William Lyon Mackenzie King after his death in 1950, quoted by David Bercuson and Barry Cooper in National Post December 28, 2001
“The way some people find fault, you’d think there was a reward.”
On the bulletin board at the Nepean Sportsplex arts section November 4, 2017, unsourced
“He who has seen the present has seen everything, said Marcus Aurelius...”
Andrei Navrozov in Chronicles magazine June 1991
“Experience teaches us that nothing stands so much in the way of developing great philosophers as the custom of supporting mediocre ones in state universities…. No state would ever dare to patronize such men as Plato and Schopenhauer… The state is always afraid of them.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, “Schopenhauer as Educator” quoted in Will Durant The Story of Philosophy
“When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.”
Harold B. Walker, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 8, 2009
“The reply of the Spartan father, who said to his son, when complaining that his sword was too short, ‘Add a step to it,’ is applicable to everything in life.”
Samuel Smiles Self-Help