“We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.”
Francois, duc de La Rouchefoucauld, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“When I was a little boy, she [his grandmother] would sometimes haul me by the ear over to the kitchen window and point out the bright, beautiful morning, saying, ‘Now, boy, we’ll pay for this.’”
Larry Pratt in Globe & Mail May 18, 1999
“happiness is an end and pleasure can only be a means.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News April 27, 1912 quoted in “Chesterton’s Mail Bag” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #8 (July-August 2005)
“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather that it never had a beginning.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman, quoted in Paul Pearsall, The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need: Repress your anger, think negatively, be a good blamer, & throttle your inner child
“I’m covered with loser dust.”
Courtney Love, quoted in Ottawa Sun April 16, 2004
“Not then having learned the philosophy of yielding to disproportionate obstacles...”
Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail
“I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do.”
G.K. Chesterton in a letter to his fiancée, in which he confesses to being covered in ink after a day’s work, quoted by David W. Fagerberg in First Things March 2000
“Freud was once asked what he thought a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated answer. But Freud, in the curt way of his old days, is reported to have said: ‘Lieben und arbeiten’ (to love and to work). It pays to ponder on this simple formula; it gets deeper as you think about it.”
Erik H. Erikson, quoted in Brian Lee Crowley Fearful Symmetry