“‘Don’t be a fly on the wall,’ wise cons advise. ‘Be the wall.’”
Maclean’s April 9, 2001 [I did not record the name of the author]
“Four park benches sit on the lawn at Wesley United Church at Main and Graham, offering weary passersby a place to rest. They aren’t chained or locked. One of the slats in the benches bears the inscription: ‘Thou shalt not steal.’ But it’s probably the added inscription on the next slat that is most effective. ‘God is watching.’”
Dave Brown Best of Brown
“fools are soon parted from their votes…”
Fr. Raymond J. De Souza in Western Standard June 4, 2007
“Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quoted on www.memorablequotations.com/lec.htm (accessed December 30, 2003)
“It is a pleasant and consoling thought to think that our posterity will find sufficient entertainment in the contemplation of the enormous blunders that you are making at this moment. That will be a continuous source of laughter and joy to them.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Culture and the Coming Peril” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #5 (March-April 2005)
In my latest National Post column I celebrate Meghan Markle’s pregnancy as the sort of happy thing we need more of in the world, our lives and the newspapers.
“we [should] form the term catallaxy to describe the object of the science we generally call economics, which then, following Whately, itself ought to be called catallactics… I am convinced that its more general adoption might really contribute to the clarity of our discussion.”
Friedrich Hayek The Fatal Conceit [Whately is Church of Ireland Archbishop Richard Whately, who evidently made the suggestion in 1838]
“Nothing brings a better world into being than the stated truth. You’re going to have to pay a price for that, but that’s fine. You’re going to pay the price for every bloody thing you do and don’t do. You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you get to choose which poison you’re going to take. So if you’re going to stand up for something, stand up for your truth, it’ll shape you.”
Jordan Peterson, quoted by Tim Moen “MY Letter to Young Libertarians” in The Post Millennial September 4, 2018