“Common sense is the little man in the grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it’s always someone else’s money he’s adding up.”
“Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), American novelist” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Jan. 11, 2012
“Maybe we’re all just blobs of sentient meat in a senseless existence.”
Tina in the comic strip “Tina’s Groove” in Ottawa Citizen Feb. 15, 2003
“I can’t say enough good things about this person”.
From the “he’s an extraordinary man” file, in this case specifically for a letter of recommendation for someone you’re trying to unload on some other hapless employer. I don’t recall the source but I didn’t invent it.
“the world where every star is a diamond, every leaf an emerald, every drop of blood a ruby…”
G.K. Chesterton to his fiancée in a letter after her sister Gertrude died, quoted by David Fagerberg in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #6 (April-May 2001)
“In one of the famous episodes of both history and historiography, Dexippus rallied 2,000 Athenians to fight the Heruli, but the city had already fallen…”
Edward Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
Lionel “Robbins defined economics as the science concerned with the implications of the insight that men are economizing individuals who seek to allocate given scarce resources among given competing ends.”
Israel M. Kirzner in Edwin G. Dolan, ed., The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics
“It’s easy to be brilliant if you are not bothered about being right.”
“Hector McNeil (1907-55)” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Feb. 19, 2007
“I thought I was going to seize the day… but the day seized me instead.”
Jon looking very miserable in Garfield in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 12, 2004