"Nobody, on their deathbeds, says, 'My biggest regret is eating ice cream.' Life is too short spending it all thinking about how to live longer."
Dr. Steven Bratman, "author of Health Food Junkies/Orthorexia Nervosa: Overcoming the Obsession With Healthful Eating", quoted in Globe & Mail October 16, 2001
"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."
Francis Bacon
“Someone once defined a great man as one who never reminds us of someone else.”
A narrator whose name I did not record in a segment on Dick Butkus in a film on NFL greats broadcast on Channel 3 in Ottawa on August 22, 1995
"Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation."
Nigel Dennis, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail Jan. 19, 2006
"The most important sort of knowledge is to know which things are worth knowing."
G.K. Chesterton in Sign April 1932, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 17 #2-3 (Nov.-Dec. .2013)
“Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”
D.P. Diffiné, “Wal-Mart Open for Business: A 30th Anniversary Salute to Wal-Mart” (1992)
“At that moment, and only for that moment, everything fitted into place. Every tendency in himself, in societies; the past and the future; all he had ever seen or thought or felt or believed, sorted itself out. It was a vision of Good and Evil. Heaven and Hell. Life and death. There were two alternatives; and he had to choose. He chose.”
Malcolm Muggeridge "Winter in Moscow" (1934), in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge.
“12. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.”
One in a list of “Paraprosdokians : Winston Churchill loved them. They are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected, and are frequently humorous” emailed by William Adamson January 25, 2014