“One sword keeps another in the sheath.”

George Herbert on Brainy Quote (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_herbert_152910)

In BOE Report I ridicule climate alarmist and pipeline foe BC Premier John Horgan for being not just unhappy but baffled that his plan to push gas prices up so there’d be less of it worked.

“It is our lot to fail and be deluded much of the time, particularly in the fires of our youth.”

Charles Perry, The Haight-Ashbury: A History.

“‘Optimism is cowardice.’”

Oswald Spengler, quoted by Modris Eksteins in Globe & Mail June 3, 2000

“The dark night of the soul was not discovered by Freud; it was at the heart of the experience of faith.”

Charles J. Sykes, A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character

In my latest article in Mercatornet I argue that the SNC-Lavalin scandal is actually going very well for Canada… because it’s going so badly for those responsible.

“Start every day with a smile and get it over with.”

W.C. Fields, quoted in the features on a DVD of six classic W.C. Fields shorts I acquired years ago

“Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action?”

Bruce Wayne in Batman (the 1966 movie)