"I never, as it happens, come across a hospital or orphanage run by the Fabian Society or a Humanist leper colony."
Malcolm Muggeridge Observer (1968) in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
"One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor."
"Top 20 Internet Tag Lines" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)
"Tout le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement."
La Rochefoucauld Réflexions morales #89 in Maximes
"The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past."
C.S. Lewis, quoted in "Thought du jour" in Globe and Mail May 19, 200319/5/03 p. A14.
In my latest National Post column I say the strong showing of the allegedly "far right" Alternative für Deutschland in the German election means you must either call one in eight German voters a neo-Nazi or concede that many normal people are deeply dissatisfied with politics as usual nowadays.
"As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight."
Thomas Paine in Common Sense, quoted in the "Founder’s Quote Daily" from The Patriot Post July 16, 2010
"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
Albert Einstein, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail May 20, 2010