“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.”
Don Wilder, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html
“it ain’t over until it’s over and then it ain’t over.”
Yogi Berra, according to Jeffrey Simpson in Globe & Mail August 14, 2001
“Imagine going to Moses or Mahomet for a code to regulate the modern money market!”
George Bernard Shaw Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism [another example of the modern delusion that you should turn to a calendar for moral guidance]
“By his own admission, [actor Stephen] Fry can’t dance and couldn’t carry a tune if it had handles.”
Rod Dreher in National Review May 31, 1999
“Laugh while you can still breathe.”
Another of mine, from March 2, 1989.
In my latest Loonie Politics column, I offer unsolicited advice from the dark side to the new Treasury Board President on how not to incur the wrath of Trudeau, and wish her luck because she’s going to need it.
“Those who blame everything on the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919, equally miss the point: no Versailles could ‘justify’ the rise of Nazism, which had much deeper causes, as well as much shallower.”
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen June 7, 2003
In my latest National Post column I ridicule the notion that Canada must bring in half a million immigrants a year to build homes for the half-million immigrants we bring in a year to build homes for all the immigrants.