In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the mind-numbing vulgarity of Doug Ford’s comments about vaccine availability was just the beginning of their mind-numbing qualities.
“Oh Matthew, isn’t it a wonderful morning? The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn’t it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath – pouf! I’m so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren’t you?”
Anne in Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables [Anne having saved a sick baby the night before]
“Pericles said, twenty-four centuries ago: ‘Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles.’ We do, indeed!”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
In my latest National Post column I say Erin O’Toole’s boast about being pragmatic and moderate amounts to saying he has no convictions and cannot be counted on by anyone for anything, and trying to make it sound like an achievement. But it’s not.
“a lion can spot a limp.”
Quoted in an email from a reader this fall, on the subject of foreign policy but sourced to “something I heard an ex-convict say about the danger of exhibiting weakness in prison.”
“I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.”
Bobby Fischer, quoted on Agadmator's YouTube channel.
“It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
John Stuart Mill, quoted without further attribution in the Epoch Times email newsletter Oct. 1, 2020 (it is in fact from On Liberty)
“He was rude and unhygienic.”
“The robot head in Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories Jan. 1, 1999” [It’s the source I recorded and I’m sticking to it although I can offer no justification for ever having watched an episode (or even knowing the show existed, which in fact I’d forgotten) except that as summaries of someone’s undesirability go this line is excellent. Google confirms that the show existed and lasted four seasons (!) and says the robot head’s name was 790 and who am I to argue?]