“If you try to do without the supernatural you will get the superstitious.”
G.K. Chesterton in New York Sun Jan. 5 1919, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“My mother was already out of it by this time (not that she was ever deeply into it)…”
Mordecai Richler Barney’s Version
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ridicule Melanie Joly’s grasp of the world situation, of its history, and of the challenges of restructuring bureaucracies.
“For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite/ The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”
John of Gaunt in Shakespeare Richard II I.iii
“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“unlike traditional commodities, which sometimes during the course of their market exchange must be delivered to someone in physical form, the carbon market is based on the lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no one.”
Mark Schapiro (apparently) in Harper’s in early 2010 [I found it here https://www.integrity-research.com/wanted-independent-research-to-assess-carbon-offsets/ but the link back to Harper’s is broken, as is a similar link in another piece quoting it; perhaps Harper’s pulled it; this piece attributes it to Mark Schapiro: https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/columns/air-travel-major-contributor-to-climate-change/].
“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.”
Carl Jung, quoted as Standalone “Words of Wisdom” in Epoch Times email teaser December 15, 2022 [not further attributed].
In my latest Epoch Times column I express the agony involved in listening to our politicians babble inane falsehoods about Canadian security policy.