“I was eating this orange on a busy Friday afternoon and thinking ‘Dagnabbit, this thing is so juicy it’s getting all over everything.’”
One of mine, from May 17, 2002, illustrating how easy it is to slide into ingratitude.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s actually good news that about two-thirds of Canadians in a poll said they think “everything is broken in this country right now” because we still expect better and have not spiraled into rage, paranoia or, worst of all, resignation.
“Be not afraid of going slowly but only afraid of standing still.”
“Chinese proverb” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 16, 2009
“There is only one intelligent reason why a man does not believe in miracles and that is that he does believe in materialism.”
G.K. Chesterton “Miracles and Death” in St. Francis of Assisi, quoted in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 # 4.
“If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!”
Charles Lamb, quoted by P.J. O’Rourke The Bachelor Home Companion
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the New York Times may be thrilled by elite cultural phenomena like vegan mattresses and sound baths coming out of California. But normal people are more worried about disorder, depravity and crime spread by “Do what thou wilt” elite attitudes run amok.
“As for Martin, he was firmly persuaded that a man is badly off wherever he is, so he suffered in patience.”
Voltaire Candide
“the aim of studying history is not to forget its lessons when occasion arises for its practical application, or to decide that the present situation is different after all, and that therefore its old eternal truths are no longer applicable; no, the purpose of studying history is precisely its lesson for the present. The man who cannot do this must not conceive of himself as a political leader; in reality he is a shallow, though usually very conceited, fool, and no amount of good will can excuse his practical incapacity.”
You may hate me for this one, and I did hesitate before posting it, because the source is Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf. But it remains true even if the person who said it was evil.