“If you try to do without the supernatural you will get the superstitious.”
G.K. Chesterton in New York Sun Jan. 5 1919, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite/ The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”
John of Gaunt in Shakespeare Richard II I.iii
“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.”
Carl Jung, quoted as Standalone “Words of Wisdom” in Epoch Times email teaser December 15, 2022 [not further attributed].
“Alfred North Whitehead, wisely wrote that the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity that is on the far side of complexity.”
Richard John Neuhaus’s intro to Allan Carlson, Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis p. x. [and referring back explicitly to Paul Ricoeur’s second naivete quoted here on March 24, 2023].
“‘God Will Never Give You More Than You Can Handle In Life,’ Says Man Unfamiliar With God, Life”
Headline on Babylon Bee piece Oct. 8, 2022 [https://babylonbee.com/news/god-will-never-give-you-more-than-you-can-handle-in-life-says-man-unfamiliar-with-god-life].
“God deliver me from my friends! I’ll take care of my enemies myself.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
Widely available online attributed to J.R.R. Tolkien, which is partly true, but more properly it is the character Sador to Túrin in The Children of Húrin acccording to this commendably persnickety website: https://thetolkienist.com/2014/10/10/thanks-babble-get-10-tolkien-quotes-wrong/