"As Mr. Pond knows, the last lesson of the wise man is that the fool is sometimes right."

Steve Miller in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6

"The narrowest hinge on my hand puts to scorn all machinery."

Walt Whitman, quoted in John Stewart Collis, Living With A Stranger: A Discourse on the Human Body

In my latest National Post column I ask why Arizona Republican senator Jeff Flake is ducking out of the fight with Donald Trump he insists is necessary.

"As heretical as it may seem to institution-bound historians, the study of history has essentially been a self-help project."

James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg in The Great Reckoning 

"The Law of Supply and Demand. As inexorable as the Law of Gravity, even governments cannot break it, although they often try."

William Trench in Only You Can Save Canada

In my latest National Post column I ask why, when budget projections are so reliably wrong, including this year's way-off deficit predictions and apparently next year's too, we nod solemnly at each year's pseudo-sophisticated decimal points and econometric analyses.

 "I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid."

Terry Bradshaw, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Jan.-Feb. 2002

William "Blake could do so many things. Why is it that he could do none of them quite right?"

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (December 2001)