“The wise, I say, may take advice from fools.”
Pandar to Troilus in Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde
“the way that Bear Bryant looked upon football players - ‘Be good or be gone.’”
An author whose name I did not record in National Review April 12, 1993
“Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.”
C.S. Lewis Surprised by Joy
“Romance lurks in unexpected places. We walk abroad amidst scenes made dull by familiarity, and let our thoughts ramble far away beyond the commonplace… and behold! all the time Romance is at our very doors.”
The narrator in R. Austin Freeman, “The Dead Hand,” in Douglas G. Greene, ed., Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (the reference is to adventure and wonder not love specifically).
“Anybody who knows everything should be told a thing or two.”
Franklin P. Jones (emailed by a friend without citation; it's widely quoted online).
“Marge: Sweetie, you could still go to McGill. The Harvard of Canada./ Lisa: Anything that's the Something of the Something isn't really the Anything of Anything”
The Simpsons “MoneyBART” episode, according to www.simpsonseh.com, a website about the Simpsons and Canada (the setup is that Lisa is worried that she’s not doing enough extracurricular stuff to get into an Ivy League university).
“‘When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power… Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!’”
Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered
“Water is bewitched, so that it always goes downhill. Birds are bewitched, so that they fly. The sun is bewitched so that it shines.”
G.K. Chesterton, “A Fairy Tale,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton