“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?”
Elbert Hubbard according to www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Elbert_Hubbard
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
Thomas à Kempis, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email April 20, 2022.
“Nearly every line he penned was an invitation to slumber.”
Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything (about “Geological writer James Hutton”)
“Men have no right to complain that they are naturally feeble and short-lived, or that it is chance and not merit that decides their destiny. On the contrary, reflection will show that nothing exceeds or surpasses the powers with which nature has endowed mankind, and that it is rather energy they lack than strength or length of days.”
Sallust, The Jugurthine War
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if heads don’t roll over the latest revelations from the Mass Casualty Commission then we have pretty much given up on truth and decency.
“We live in strange times. Humans are loose upon the earth.”
Not sure why this of all weeks I quoted myself so often (this one from May 12, 2005) but since I don’t check the attributions while choosing them, only when posting them, we’re both stuck with it.
In my latest National Post column I say the Liberal ban on (some) single-use plastics is a classic illustration of policy made without any attention to incentives and consequences.
“Are there still people who don’t understand that if you want to discourage an activity, tax it heavily, and if you want to encourage it, cut its taxes?”
Donald Coxe in Maclean’s September 20, 2004