“the saying, ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try something else.’”

Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, The Peter Principle (without further attribution)

“The believers in miracles accept them because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them because they have a doctrine against them.”

G.K. Chesterton quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2003)

“Boredom would be a relief after the emotion I’m experiencing now.”

Another of mine (hey, use it or lose it) from March 2004.

“Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.”

Iris Murdoch, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail October 4, 2002

“May you live through interesting times.”

Another of mine, from September 13 2001 (and yes, adapted from the supposed Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times.”)

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“A charitable view is that [Alan] Greenspan is what Karl Popper called a ‘historicist’ – one who believes the way people respond to incentives changes, so that economic models true last year are no longer true today…. But, what looks like an open and forward-looking mind may be, as Popper suggested, nothing more than a mind without bearings.”

Filip Palda in Ottawa Citizen March 17, 2000

“Knowing that a feeling exists is not the same as having the feeling.”

A friend paraphrasing John Stuart Mill (date not recorded).

“There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.”

“Mark Burnett on ‘Dateline NBC’” quoted as “Quotable Quotes” in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition July 2005