“The Epigrammatist: 'Mankind perishes. The world goes dark./ He racks his brains for a tart remark.'"
The last in a series of "Epigrams" in Chronicles magazine November 1988
"The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Robert Moore-Jumonville in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 15 #1 (September 2011)
"The best way to celebrate a lost cause is to win it. Beyond our symbols that need to be restored, we must restore the nobility in our men and women."
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen July 1, 2006, with specific reference to Dominion Day
In my latest National Post column I say the defeat of Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate election is cause for relief... provided it's not the occasion for gloating.
"Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heroes. They don’t usually mean to be, but that’s their problem, not ours."
P.J. O’Rourke Eat the Rich p. 245.
In my latest National Post column I ridicule our governments' conviction that legalizing marijuana is yet another opportunity to overtax and overregulate us instead of just leaving us alone.