“No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.”
Elizabeth Bowen, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“History has always, and properly, been regarded as ‘the school of princes’. We should not hesitate – we should be eager – to make it the school of peoples.”
Paul Johnson The Offshore Islanders
In my latest National Post column I say that press releases that declare themselves important reveal themselves as self-important.
“The anointed don’t like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy ‘solutions’ that get rid of the whole problem - at least in their imagination.”
Thomas Sowell Is Reality Optional?
“brilliant, but not correct.”
Quoted in Horace Porter Campaigning with Grant as “what Cuvier said of the French Academy’s definition of a crab”.