“the saying, ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try something else.’”
Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, The Peter Principle (without further attribution)
“The believers in miracles accept them because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them because they have a doctrine against them.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2003)
“Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.”
Iris Murdoch, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail October 4, 2002
“May you live through interesting times.”
Another of mine, from September 13 2001 (and yes, adapted from the supposed Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times.”)
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In my latest Epoch Times column I say the EU mandating that all devices use the USB-C standard is a classic case of thinking just because something is annoying government should blunder in and mandate a uniform solution to one of life’s complexities.
“Knowing that a feeling exists is not the same as having the feeling.”
A friend paraphrasing John Stuart Mill (date not recorded).
“There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.”
“Mark Burnett on ‘Dateline NBC’” quoted as “Quotable Quotes” in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition July 2005
“By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? Even if a particular train of thought can be twisted so as to end in our favour, you will find that you have been strengthening in your patient the fatal habit of attending to universal issues and withdrawing his attention from the stream of immediate sense experiences.”
C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters