“’Truth is not only stranger, but much more blood-curdling than fiction.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News December 31, 1921 quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)
“one need not be a strategist to keep out of the way of a motor-bus.”
Father Brown in G.K. Chesterton Favorite Father Brown Stories
“fools are soon parted from their votes…”
Fr. Raymond J. De Souza in Western Standard June 4, 2007
“Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quoted on www.memorablequotations.com/lec.htm (accessed December 30, 2003)
“When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.”
E-mailed by a friend without attribution
“It just doesn’t work. This idea is off the tee and into the lake.”
Marc Henry, senior research manager for Angus Reid’s Calgary office, quoted in Ottawa Citizen May 15, 1999
"If he’s mad, I hope he’ll bite some of my other generals."
King George II responding to criticism of General James Wolfe, quoted by John Ivison in National Post June 12, 2012
"the mortadella of philosophers. Little globules of rich, fatty thinking, in vast quantities of baloney."
P.J. O'Rourke on Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted by Noah Richler in National Post December 6, 2001