“The way some people find fault, you’d think there was a reward.”
On the bulletin board at the Nepean Sportsplex arts section November 4, 2017, unsourced
“He who has seen the present has seen everything, said Marcus Aurelius...”
Andrei Navrozov in Chronicles magazine June 1991
“When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.”
Harold B. Walker, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 8, 2009
“The reply of the Spartan father, who said to his son, when complaining that his sword was too short, ‘Add a step to it,’ is applicable to everything in life.”
Samuel Smiles Self-Help
“He wore… clothes that looked like what starts fires in old warehouses.”
Spider Robinson Time Travellers Strictly Cash
“How can these people strike dignified attitudes, and pretend that things really matter, when the total ludicrousness of life is proved by the very method by which it is supported? A man strikes the lyre, and says, ‘Life is real, life is earnest,’ and then goes into a room and stuffs alien substances into a hole in his head.”
The king in G.K. Chesterton The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“If we really do discount time positively, why does anyone ever eat their cake then their icing?”
OK, this one’s me again, from April 5, 2002, and possibly only interesting to economists.
“The truth is, whatever you can’t talk about is already out of control in your life…”
Rick Warren The Purpose-Driven Life