“I run like the winded.”
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“Starving Bull had succeeded in killing a skunk during his journey. This performance, while highly creditable to his energy as a hunter, was by no means conducive to his success, as a cook. Bitterly did that skunk revenge himself upon us who had borne no part in his destruction. Pemmican is at no time a delicacy; But pemmican flavored with skunk was more than I could attempt. However, Starving Bull proved himself worthy of his name, and the frying-pan was soon scraped clean under his hungry manipulations.”
W.F. Butler The Great Lone Land
“BORN TO BE WILD BUT ONLY UNTIL 9PM”
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“I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she’s so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.”
Saki, quoted in Globe & Mail July 17, 2000
“Pemmican can be prepared in many ways, and it is not easy to decide which method is the least objectionable. There is rubeiboo and richot, and pemmican plain and pemmican raw, this last method being the one most in vogue among voyageurs; but the richot, to me, seemed the best; mixed with a little flour and fried in a pan, pemmican in this form can be eaten, provided the appetite be sharp and there is nothing else to be had – this last consideration is, however, of importance.”
W.F. Butler The Great Lone Land
“It is impossible to caricature that which caricatures itself.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Dec. 16, quoted in “Can’t You Take A Joke?” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)
“A fool and his money are soon partying.”
“Tagline from the Internet” quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #5 (March 2000)
“A joke can be so big that it breaks the roof of the stars.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Dickens Period” in Charles Dickens, quoted in “Can’t You Take A Joke?” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)