"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?"
Maurice Freehill, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
“the remarkable way [Stanley] Hauerwas makes friends by arguing with people.”
Stephen H. Webb reviewing a Festschrift in Hauerwas' honor in First Things #160 (February 2006)
“Nearly all pessimism is insincere.”
G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #3 (Dec. 2000)
“It seems to be the great business of life to create wants as fast as they are satisfied."
Samuel Johnson Adventurer 119 quoted in a footnote to my edition of Samuel Johnson The History of Rasselas
"There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever."
"Viggo Mortensen (1958-), Danish-American actor" quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail September 14, 2011
"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."
"German proverb" quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.”
Philander Johnson, quoted by David Gratzer in National Post Oct. 28, 2002
“When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, explaining and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, 'licking the earth.’”
Malcolm Muggeridge in "A Twentieth-Century Testimony", quoted by Stephen R. Covey The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic