“Now that God is dead, however, or at least comatose”
Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic Monthly March 2004
“Perhaps the world is divided into those who laugh first and think afterwards, and those who think first and laugh afterwards.”
G.K. Chesterton in American Review September 1935, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008)
In my latest National Post column I argue that the solution to toxic anger in politics, far easier said than done, is neither to cause nor succumb to it.
“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”
“George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 8, 2012
“Fools are wise until they speak.”
Randle Cotgrave, quoted in “Random Foolish Quotations” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 # 7 (June 2004)
“The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.”
Horace Walpole, possibly according to Horace Walpole - Wikiquote borrowed from Jean de La Bruyère’s unsourced: “Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think”.
“If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.”
“Anonymous” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 10, 2006
“Did he make it?” “No... but he might have.”
An exchange between war correspondent Dick Ennis (Robert Mitchum) and Cpl. Jack Rabinoff (Peter Falk) in the movie Anzio about a guy who’d shown Ennis a technique for trying to get through a minefield years earlier in China (specifically by throwing large rocks to make a path and stepping on them if they hadn’t exploded)