“Gambling is a tax for people who can’t do math.”
Variously attributed in various forms, sometimes singling out lotteries.
“He who limps is still walking.”
Stanislaw J. Lec, quoted on www.goodreads.com/quotes/632606-he-who-limps-is-still-walking
In BOE Report I say the tactics that seem loudly to be winning the debate for climate alarmism might quietly be losing it instead.
“Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as it is leaping.”
Julius Hare, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html
“Innocent Louis [XVI] bears the sins of many generations: he too experiences that man’s tribunal is not in this Earth; that if he had no Higher one, it were not well with him.”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
“I don’t know what to say.”
James Rockford in “The Rockford Files”, on being presented over his protests with a cheque for his work from some fabulously rich woman only to find it’s for $125 (the episode aired A&E Nov. 11, 1995) (another example of fake praise from my “He’s an extraordinary man” files)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I express dismay, with the PEI election as the latest example, at the foolishness politicians and commentators spout about the profession they’re meant to understand.