“‘Opinions are like toothbrushes. Everybody has one, so there’s no need to share.’”
Red Green’s “Quote of the Day”, quoting himself, in Ottawa Sun February 27, 2000.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I argue that the key to Kissinger’s diplomacy was the worldview behind it. And we’re not exactly racking up successes in such profusion that we can afford to ignore his insights.
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
Eric Hoffer, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen To Go
“It is now much discussed among the learned whether art should abolish morality by calling it convention. It might well be discussed among the wise whether art should even abolish convention. But what seems very queer to me is this: that modern art has so often abolished morality without abolishing convention.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News February 6, 1932, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (9-10/22).
“Generally speaking, what I complain of in the historical philosophy of Mr. Wells is that it is always jam to-morrow and never jam to-day.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted in “Chesterton University” “An Introduction to the Writings of G.K. Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist” “G.K.’s Weekly, Volume 8 ■ September, 1928 – March, 1929” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (9-10/22)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the mercifully now reversed decision by Moncton city council to ditch their traditional Hanukkah acknowledgement (and a nativity scene) reflects a dangerously mistaken understanding of the place of religion in a free society.
“Hatred is a dead end street, and I want to continue on down the road.”
Spiro Agnew Go Quietly... Or Else
“Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.”
“Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richards Almanack, 1742)” as The Patriot Post Founders’ Quote Daily May 17, 2006