“A vacation is having nothing to do and having all day to do it.”

Robert Orben, quoted in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition November 2004

“For Christmas is, as a matter of fact, the standing example of the proposition which I have lately been maintaining; I mean the proposition that without the superhuman we are not human.”

G.K. Chesterton debating newspaper editor Robert Blatchford in December 2003, quoted by Sean P. Dailey in “Tremendous Trifles” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #3 (December 2003)

“Tomorrow is Christmas! It’s practically here!”

The Grinch in Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas

“Social questions are the vital questions of today; they take the place of religion.”

Beatrice Webb in her diary in 1884, quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb The De-moralization of Society

“that was like trying to teach a goldfish how to play basketball over the phone.”

Somebody posting as “TouchOGray” June 25 2008 (in an online thread about whether it’s OK to leave a bicycle in an unheated shed for the winter)

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

Archilochus, a 7th century BC Greek poet, quoted by Paul P. Streeton in Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers Pioneers in Development

“One lesson and one lesson only, history may be said to repeat with distinctness [and that is] that the world is build somehow on moral foundations.“

“19th-century historian J.A. Froude” quoted by Pat Buchanan and J. Gordon Muir in R. Emmett, Tyrrell Jr., ed. Orthodoxy: The American Spectator Anniversary Anthology

“Any transaction freely entered into must benefit both parties. Any transaction that does not would surely be rejected by the party whom it disadvantages.”

Mike Harris and Preston Manning, Building Prosperity in a Canada Strong and Free