“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
Willie Nelson, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 4, 2008
“The Declaration of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more nor less than that from then on Man, and not God’s command or the customs of history, should be the source of Law.”
Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism
On the Crown & Crozier podcast I discuss Magna Carta, church, state and you.
“an old family friend … a retired auto-shop teacher, the sort of guy who knows about wrenches, who even has views on wrenches.”
Kevin Bolger in Ottawa Citizen March 12, 1999
“I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time.”
Charlie Brown in “Peanuts” (I have seen others use it in some form but I believe Schulz got there first)
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
Andrew Carnegie (widely quoted online for instance at https://www.forbes.com/quotes/470/)
“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.”
G.K. Chesterton What I Saw In America
“My life has been a series of enthusiasms.”
David Bowie in a TV interview I watched on September 24, 1999 (wording may not be exact)