"That’s the whole story of pitching. Keep your life and your pitching real simple, and you’ll get along."
286-game winner Robin Roberts quoted in John Thorn and John Holway The Pitcher
"We have spent 200 years rediscovering the futility of man unredeemed by God - what G.K. Chesterton called the immense sadness of paganism."
British Columbia Report August 9, 1993 [I did not record the writer's name]
“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.