“Economists uncertain about what’s next”
An actual headline in the Ottawa Citizen August 14, 1998
In my latest Epoch Times column I mock the “Karen meets Marley” tale of people buying themselves an $825 Chanel advent calendar then ranting against it online.
“Of course, bitterness has its comforts, as every resentful person knows. It allows you to feel superior to the world without actually doing anything; it gives you permanent occupancy of the high moral ground. But as a way of life it is very unsatisfactory and restricting.”
Theodore Dalrymple in National Review March 24, 2003
“Keep a stiff upper chin.”
Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)
“for the first of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever.”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
“He blunted us because he had no shape … he never did things by halves he could do by quarters.”
F.R. Scott, law professor, social democrat and poet, in a verse on William Lyon Mackenzie King after his death in 1950, quoted by David Bercuson and Barry Cooper in National Post December 28, 2001
“The way some people find fault, you’d think there was a reward.”
On the bulletin board at the Nepean Sportsplex arts section November 4, 2017, unsourced
“He who has seen the present has seen everything, said Marcus Aurelius...”
Andrei Navrozov in Chronicles magazine June 1991