“Idealist: a cynic in the making.”
“Irving Layton Canadian poet (1912-2006)” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 19, 2013
“Great players may question one of their moves, but they never question themselves.”
Bruce Pandolfini in National Post April 24, 1999 [discussing chess]
“That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, lifeless wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. God in His Word, greatly insists upon it, that we be in good earnest, fervent in spirit, and our hearts vigorously engaged in mercies.”
Jonathan Edwards quoted in Federalist Patriot No. 04-32 August 9, 2004 from Federalist.com.
“Ambrose Bierce wrote of an inventor who built a moon rocket. When he fired it up, it bored straight down into the earth. A while later he crawled up out of the hole, and triumphantly announced, ‘My invention has proved correct in all its details; the defects are merely basic and fundamental!’ … whereupon the investors rushed forward to press money on him for the next attempt.”
Spider Robinson in Globe & Mail April 27, 1999
In my latest Epoch Times column I explain what is, and what is not, a “confidence” motion in a functioning Parliamentary system.
“‘Like the land of the Brobdingnagians,’ said Turnbull, smiling. ‘Oh, Where is that?’ said MacIan. Turnbull said bitterly, ‘In a book,’ and the silence fell suddenly between them again.”
G.K. Chesterton The Ball and the Cross, as header quotation on David Beresford in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 4 (March-April 2023)
“There is one thing infinitely more absurd than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit of saying that his philosophy does not matter.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted by David Cregg in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 16 #4 (Jan.-Feb,. 2013)
“The universal mark of ‘social reforms’ is the general attempt of the wealthy to get the needy well under their control.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Jan. 25, 1913, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)