“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
“British novelist G. B. Stearn” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail November 15, 2007
“the Doctrine of Evolution has not furnished guidance to the extent I had hoped.”
Herbert Spencer on the question of ethics and morality, quoted in Famous Last Words calendar July 14, 2003
“If at first you don’t succeed, hide the evidence.”
My sister
“A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.”
Thomas Carlyle, quoted in J.W. Marriott Jr. And Kathi Ann Brown, The Spirit to Serve: Marriott’s Way
“A vacation is having nothing to do and having all day to do it.”
Robert Orben, quoted in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition November 2004
“Tomorrow is Christmas! It’s practically here!”
The Grinch in Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A brief excerpt from a chess instructional video by GM Ben Finegold. His comments on chess are great... if you like chess. (And you can find lots of them on YouTube.) But this is a rather wistful reflection on how much childhood has changed that I think is of far wider interest.
In Convivium I say the NAC production of Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater” is a surprising, delightful and morally intelligent improvement on the original.