“Stupidity is pretty easy to spot, but intelligence can be quite an elusive trait to define.”
Stephen Reucroft and John Swain “in The Boston Globe.” quoted in Globe & Mail Nov. 16, 2001
“Stupidity is pretty easy to spot, but intelligence can be quite an elusive trait to define.”
Stephen Reucroft and John Swain “in The Boston Globe.” quoted in Globe & Mail Nov. 16, 2001
“Everything Milton [Friedman] touches has the feel of his optimism…”
William F. Buckley, Jr. in National Review July 18, 2005 [at which point Friedman was 93]
“It is certainly one of the things that we can’t not know that no one may deliberately take innocent human life. The more particular doctrine of man as the created image of God seems unknown beyond the bible’s sphere of influence; it is not one of the things we can’t not know. Some intuition of the sacredness of human life is universal nonetheless…”
J. Budziszewski What We Can’t Not Know
“How do you do, Miss West?"
Mae West: "How do you do what?”
Harmik Vaishnav, Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
In my latest National Post column I object to the hypocrisy of press releases in which staff falsely claim their politician boss is deeply engaged with some day of this or festival of that whose details they had to Google after an automated reminder to pander over it popped up..
“Awe-full life”
Recommended, especially in old age, by Paul Pearsall in The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need: Repress your anger, think negatively, be a good blamer, & throttle your inner child.
“Mr Wirt: What do you think is going to happen in the next few years of history, Mr Lewis?”
“Lewis: I have no way of knowing. My primary field is the past. I travel with my back to the engine, and that makes it difficult when you try to steer.”
C.S. Lewis “Cross-Examination” in The Grand Miracle