Réflexions morales #174 “Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu’à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.”
La Rochefoucauld Maximes
“When you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill, quoted in William D. Gairdner The Trouble With Democracy
“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”.