“The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 (Oct.-Nov. 2000)
“As they say on the street, there is smart smart and then there is dumb smart.”
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things October 2001
“Count that day lost, whose low descending sun views from thy hand no worthy action done."
"Charles Stanford (1823-86)", quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail Oct. 15, 1999
“’I should soon have given up a life of pleasure,’ they say, ‘if I had faith.’ But I tell you: ‘You would soon have faith if you gave up a life of pleasure….’”
Blaise Pascal Pensées
“Some days are for living. Others are for getting through."
Malcolm Forbes, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“When fortune empties her chamberpot on your head, smile – and say ‘we are going to have a summer shower.’”
Sir John A. Macdonald, quoted by Dave Ryan in The Western Standard May 3, 2004
‘‘It is a monotonous memory which keeps us in the main from seeing things as splendid as they are.’”
G.K. Chesterton quoted by James V. Schall, SJ in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 # 8 (July-August 1999)