“No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.”
Elizabeth Bowen, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“Common sense is the little man in the grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it’s always someone else’s money he’s adding up.”
“Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), American novelist” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Jan. 11, 2012
“Maybe we’re all just blobs of sentient meat in a senseless existence.”
Tina in the comic strip “Tina’s Groove” in Ottawa Citizen Feb. 15, 2003
“the world where every star is a diamond, every leaf an emerald, every drop of blood a ruby…”
G.K. Chesterton to his fiancée in a letter after her sister Gertrude died, quoted by David Fagerberg in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #6 (April-May 2001)
“It’s easy to be brilliant if you are not bothered about being right.”
“Hector McNeil (1907-55)” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Feb. 19, 2007
“I thought I was going to seize the day… but the day seized me instead.”
Jon looking very miserable in Garfield in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 12, 2004
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
Benjamin Franklin, quoted on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/51600-many-a-man-thinks-he-is-buying-pleasure-when-he)
“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)