I’m beginning to feel just how big a curse “May you live in interesting times” really is.
I’ve reached an age where putting blueberries in my outmeal is all the excitement I want.
Archive for category Quotes
Not Quite Ambrose Bierce
Feb 7
Parents: People who make every effort to ensure their children have it better than they do, and who then complain bitterly when their children have it better than them.
Winston on Free Speech
Nov 18
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
Winston Churchill
“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
Samuel Johnson
“The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at a wedding, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.”
Peggy Noonan
“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark, and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
Edna O’Brien
Remember: occasionally, it may be an interesting question to ask why a man says what he says; but whatever the answer, it does not tell us anything about whether what he says is true or false. We take no stock in the cheap political device of political warfare — unfortunately too common also among economists — of arguing about a proposition by attacking or extolling the motives of the man who sponsors it or the interest for or against which the proposition seems to tell.
——————— Joseph Schumpeter in a History of Economic Analysis (Its cheapness must be why it’s used so much)
G K Chesterton Tuesday
Dec 22
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
———- G K Chesterton
Aphorism of the Week
Dec 16
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
——– David Star Jordan
G K Chesterton Tuesday
Dec 15
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
———– G. K. Chesterton
Aphorism of the Week
Dec 9
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
——– La Rochefoucauld
G K Chesterton Tuesday
Dec 8
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
———– G. K. Chesterton
