“No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.”
Dr. Johnson, quoted in Chronicles magazine August 1991
“someone has pointed out that it is remarkable that we have a word for people who believe they are being persecuted when others around them do not think this is true, but we have no word for those who are in fact persecuting others without being aware of doing so.”
Ronald Macaulay The Social Art: Language and its Uses
“Ninety miles is but halfway in a journey of a hundred miles.”
“Chinese saying, cited in Quotationary” according to “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 31, 2007
“A ship wrecked sailor, buried on this coast/ Bids you set sail./ Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost,/ Weathered the gale.”
“a finely translated epigram in the Greek anthology” quoted in William James, Pragmatism and four essays from The Meaning of Truth
“If persons do not behave in accordance with their own economic self-interest, objectively defined and measured, on what basis do they act?... The economist is well-equipped to recognize mush for what it is, and when noneconomists hypothesize that persons want to ‘do good,’ he quickly detects the absence of predictive content.”
“Is Constitutional Revolution Possible in Democracy?” in Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
Susan Sontag, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail July 23 2001
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.”
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man