At the Masters golf tournament “There’s a strict limit on the number of spectators and the waiting list for new attendees was so unwieldly they stopped taking applications in 1972… In August, 2000, I got a letter from the Masters folks telling me that the waiting list, closed 28 years earlier, was finally used up.”
George Brimmell in Ottawa Citizen “Citizen Weekly” April 4, 2004 (he did get in)
“Did someone already make the point that if faith in God is absurd, faith in man is pitiful?”
Again I quote myself, a thought prompted on August 14, 2001 by forced abortions in the People’s Republic of China
“Everyone is in the best seat.”
John Cage quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“It is not a universal advantage in situations of conflict to be inalienably and manifestly rational in decision and motivation.”
2005 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Thomas Schelling quoted in National Post October 11, 2005
“Most troubles only come because we go halfway to meet them.
The “Duc de Lévis” quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail April 26, 2004
“your fish is not fried fish till caught”
The Chorus in Aristophanes The Clouds
“A very honest atheist with whom I once debated made use of the expression, ‘Men have only been kept in slavery by the fear of hell.’ As I pointed out to him, if he had said that men had only been freed from slavery by the fear of hell, he would at least have been referring to an unquestionable historical fact.”
G.K. Chesterton in St. Francis of Assisi, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 6 (April/May 2001)
“Give your brain as much attention as you do your hair and you'll be a thousand times better off.”
Malcolm X (widely quoted online; I was first alerted to it in a paraphrase in the Ottawa Citizen March 7, 1999)