“Be proficient in your field as well as in harmony among fellow men.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
“Becoming Catholic does not mean leaving off thinking; it means learning how to think.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted without further attribution as header quotation on Mercy Hudson’s contribution to their new “My Name is Lazarus” conversion story series in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
“An Eskimo woman is old at forty. An American woman is not old at forty. In fact, she’s not even forty.”
“An explorer” quoted in “Other Suspects – II Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
Having been called an Optimist in his youth because of his opposition to fashionable youth pessimism “after naturally enjoying the daylight, I came to be troubled with the twilight…. All that there is, in substance, on the other side, is a row of official optimists, boasting of the liberties they have not got, and defending the religion they do not believe.”
G.K. Chesterton somewhere in G.K’s Weekly Vol. 22 (3/10/35 to 12/3/36) quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“Marching toward the present decade [from the history of the sexual revolution in the conflicting libertine and feminist versions], women are twice as likely as men to be on antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications.”
Amanda Hobbs in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
“It may be a strange sight to see the blind leading the blind; but England provides a stranger. England shows us the blind leading the people who can see. And this again is an under-statement of the case.”
G.K. Chesterton in “A Glimpse of my Country” in Tremendous Trifles, quoted in “The Golden Key Chain GKC on Scripture Conducted by Peter Floriani” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)
In my latest National Post column I say the Canadian state has become so profoundly incapable that when politicians and bureaucrats don’t do something they claimed they were going to, it’s nearly impossible to tell whether they didn’t want to, couldn’t, or both.
“Give respect to those who earn it, but not those who do not. There is no point in encouraging fools.”
NFA President David Tomlinson in Point Blank February 1998