“‘The optimist goes to the window and says, “Good morning, God.” The pessimist goes to the window and says, “Good God, morning.”‘
“T.J. Park, Oshawa, Ont.” quoted in “Smile” in Globe & Mail September 5, 2001
“The problem of an enduring ethic and culture consists in finding an arrangement of the pieces by which they remain related, as do the stones arranged in an arch. And I know only one scheme that has thus proved its solidity, bestriding lands and ages with its gigantic arches, and carrying everywhere the high river of baptism upon an aqueduct of Rome.”
G.K. Chesterton, “Is Humanism a Religion?” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 #8 (Issue 57, July-August 2004)
“Sour grapes make bitter wine.”
Letter from Nancy Sturdevant of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen July 3, 2004
“doctors joke about a test for insanity: Put someone in a room with an overflowing sink and a mop. And then see if he tries to mop up the mess - or just turns off the tap.”
Peter Brimelow in National Review April 7, 1997
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if Theresa May’s record 432-202 thumping over Brexit, the most important political issue not just of her Prime Ministership but of this generation in Britain, is not a loss of confidence forcing her resignation, then the British Constitution as we have known it for at least 250 years no longer exists.
“To judge rightly of the present we must oppose it to the past; for all judgement is comparative, and of the future nothing can be known.’“
Imlac in Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas
In my latest National Post column I say ridiculous warning labels that are all noise and no signal only alert us to a society that is neurotic and litigious.