It’s a fine line in life: I just noticed (by making the typo) that “Words Worth Nothing” is one letter away from my running hed on these supposed bon mots.
Me July 10, 2023
“The observation that it is difficult to portray a really good person in fiction is nothing new. But why do our contemporary novelists find it so difficult even to portray a person we wouldn’t mind meeting? Even when they try? There are exceptions. Not many. The appalling thought occurs to me that maybe they like their characters.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto ]
“To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.”
Booker T. Washington, quoted on BrainyQuote [https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/booker_t_washington_378395]
“I wish someone would explain to me why it isn’t necessary to show probable cause of fraud and get a warrant in order to audit a taxpayer.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto]
In my latest Epoch Times column, I ask for empirical evidence to support Chrystia Freeland’s Davos claim that decarbonization means “more jobs, more growth, more manufacturing” and instead find evidence that she lives in a dream world where wishes are solid and facts are just mist.
“Long ago he had heard of an old Chinese saying to the effect that a man who could concentrate for as much as three minutes on any given problem could rule the world.”
Louis L’Amour Flint
“It is in disaster, not success, that the heroes and the bums really get sorted out.”
James Bond Stockdale in Chronicles magazine July 1988
“SIGNING CONTRACTS WITH DEMONIC FORCES has every characteristic of the dream of the satanist. So why would it be taken as a topic for artistic and religious inspiration? A casual glace to the academic and artistic institutions throughout the world gives evidence that the world has taken seriously the call to give their souls, or at least their art, to the Devil.”
Patrick Gill “How the Devil Loses a Deal” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)