“The mind must be enlarged to see the simple things.”
G.K. Chesterton “A Simple Thought” in The Thing quoted in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 # 4 March-April 2022
“Some people go to finishing school. Maybe I should go to starting school.”
Me July 7, 2001 [not a propos of anything in particular].
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the 2023 federal budget is exactly what you’d expect from people who think we can’t afford not to spend beyond our means in good times and bad.
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email teaser October 6, 2022.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
English novelist L.P. Hartley, quoted in Sylvan Barnet’s “Overview” in the 1986 Signet Classic edition of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar [in Policy Options November 2002 historian Desmond Morton called him “an otherwise obscure English novelist”].
“Don’t ask why children need to see drag queens; Ask yourself why drag queens want an audience of children!”
Emailed by a friend July 30, 2022 as part of an email roundup, without attribution.
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
William Morris, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email teaser August 20, 2022
In my latest Epoch Times column I say all the people who thought replacing the McGuinty Liberals with “Conservatives” would make a difference to Ontario’s big-government path have been sorely disappointed.