“Stories of magic... express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Ethics of Elfland” in Orthodoxy, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #3 (Nov.-Dec. 2007)
“History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.”
Laurence J. Peter, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 16, 2005
“There can be a surplus of any given thing at any given time. But a chronic surplus of the same thing, year after year, means that somebody is preventing the price from falling.”
Thomas Sowell in Western Standard July 19, 2004
In my latest National Post column I say Andrew Scheer picked a terrible time to go mushy on deficits.
“[T]o be praised by fools, that is the real dishonour.”
A “Buddhist saying” according to a letter from Judy Girard of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen July 27, 2004
In BOE Report I say satellite measurements of actual warming in the Earth’s atmosphere, or lack of it, are one more reason to be skeptical about apocalyptic computer models.
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
Oscar Wilde (quoted on www.goodreads.com/quotes/390576-the-basis-of-optimism-is-sheer-terror-we-think-that)