“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.”
Thomas Merton quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in email teaser from Epoch Times January 18, 2023
“You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. But you can make a sow’s ear carry just as much money as a silk purse.”
Horse trainer Ray Hunt on why every horse is a good horse, quoted in British Columbia Report December 5, 1994
“I believe in God as I believe the sun has risen, not because I can see it, but because by way of it I can see everything else.”
C.S. Lewis, quoted in Federalist Patriot No. 04-37 15 September 2004 from Federalist.com
“‘Hurricane Hattie, didn’t you read your assignment? Your quiz answers are all wrong?’ ‘Oh, I read the assignment all right! I just can’t seem to remember anything I read… It just seems to go in one eye and out the other!’”
Dialogue in “Born Loser” cartoon (their elision) in Ottawa Sun May 18, 2000.
“Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington] [An old friend’s maxim that a wise man pees when he can etc. may or may not be derived from it.]
“Indeed, one of the real lessons of history, is that nobody ever learns them. In every age and era, too many people believe that the experiences of others can’t apply to them. Their age and place is unique and therefore exempt from experience. Two other lessons of history are these: Nothing lasts forever, and very few people notice or care that their society is in trouble until it is too late.”
John Thompson in Mackenzie Newsletter April 1998 #32
“as with every prognosticator who claimed that ‘this time is different,’ she [Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland] (and the rest of the country) has learned the hard way that the laws of economics are not only immutable, they are cyclical.”
John Ivison in National Post January 24, 2023.
In my latest Epoch Times column I bid the “special” rapporteur an unfold farewell and say “told you so” on the need for a proper inquiry, with subpoena powers, to examine Chinese communist election meddling in Canada and possible complicity by politicians. And volunteer to head it if everyone else they consider is as compromised as David Johnston.