“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.”
D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”.
“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
“Cervantes” quoted in “Other Suspects – III Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)
“She was a woman of few words, but often.”
“Prochnow” quoted in “Other Suspects – III Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)
“Some people don’t have much to say, but you have to listen a long time to find out.”
“Unknown but well known” quoted in “Other Suspects – III Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)
“Father once mused that his ecumenical motto would be ‘Come home to the Catholic Church! It’s terrible here.’”
Dale Ahlquist reviewing Father Joseph Fessio, S.J.: California Blackrobe by Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J., in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“Man arrested, accused of trespassing naked in Disneyland”
Headline in San Bernardino Sun April 14, 2025 [which offers the comfort that someone’s always having a worse day than you are but also the caution that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.]
“But talk isn’t action; it’s just loud breathing.”
Editorial in Ottawa Citizen December 9, 1999 [if I wrote it I have since forgotten]
“She means well, but she doesn’t mean much.”
“CAN’T FIND WHO SAID IT FIRST” quoted in “Other Suspects – V” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)