“Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.”
Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts
“The whole universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it.”
Marcus Aurelius
Re the title character, a dog, doing things like hunting, fighting, being full, lying in the sun etc. “They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.”
Jack London White Fang
“I think that, as life is passion and action, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
“U.S. judge, and Civil War veteran, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.” quoted by Christie Blatchford in Globe & Mail July 7, 2006 [filing from Kandahar, Afghanistan]
“Empty heads have long tongues.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
“On limited lines I was making progress, but the wings of imagination still drooped nervelessly at my sides.”
Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands
“Better late than early”
From a list of maxims submitted by a Grade 3 Calgary Montessori School class, in Globe & Mail November 29, 2001
“Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.”
Max Beerbohm quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #5 (March 2006)