In my latest Epoch Times column I say the big problem with Canada’s federal ethics commissioner isn’t the Liberals making a mockery of the post, it’s that we’re trying to substitute technical expertise for character.
“We must tell him to mind his mind.”
G.K. Chesterton “Gates and Gate-Crashers” in Sidelights quoted in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 # 4 March-April 2022
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
Henry van Dyke quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” not further attributed in Epoch Times email August 30, 2022.
“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”].