"I want to do 'why to' DVDs instead of 'how to’s'. I think that if you understand why, you’re learning how."

Mike Holmes quoted in TV Guide April 4, 2005

"A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn’t feel like it; an amateur is one who can’t when he does feel like it."

James Agate, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail Nov. 4, 2005

“Have they [the philosophers] found the cure for our ills? Is it curing man’s presumption to set him up as God’s equal?”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

“the words itched more than they tickled.”

Larry Hill in Maclean’s August 27, 2001

"On his deathbed, Chesterton proclaimed: 'The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness, and everyone must choose his side.'"

Kevin O’Reilly in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #2 (October-November 2001)

"Clever men, it has been remarked, are impressed by their difference from their fellows; wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. It would be ungracious to suggest that such an attitude is a mark rather of cleverness than of wisdom, but it is not wholly free from the spirit of the sect."

R.H. Tawney Equality

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

Source unclear but not Albert Einstein (a false quotation magnet on a par with Abraham Lincoln). Various diligent efforts have been made to determine its origin online (for instance here) but regardless of where it came from it has caught on because we humans make such diligent efforts to demonstrate its validity in real life.

"Include me out."

Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 4 #3 (December 2000)