“If you can be summed up in a paragraph, there’s something wrong with you.”
Victoria Coren in The London Observer quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 21, 2005
“It ain’t what a man don’t know as makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain’t so.”
The “homely wisdom of Josh Billings (1818-1885)” quoted in Daniel Boorstin Cleopatra’s Nose
“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