“Ottawa goes tame”
One of mine from May 20, 2007 re the Senators reaching the Stanley Cup final.
“Monaco was, in Somerset Maugham’s unimprovable summation, ‘a sunny place for shady people’”.
The reference is to when Grace Kelly met Prince Rainier there, in Mark Steyn’s obituary of Prince Rainier in The Atlantic Monthly July-August 2005
“Maybe if we start telling people their brain is an app, they’ll want to use it.”
Comment by “mikeorclem” on the Climate Discussion Nexus “Hottest Ever Except Not” video.
“If he were a dog-catcher he’d come back with a cat.”
Tweet by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov Oct. 25, 2023 (his specific target was U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan) [https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1717261213267079412?s=20]
His home town of Hearne, SK “is so small we couldn’t afford a village idiot – everyone had to take turns.”
Allan Fotheringham in Maclean’s Oct. 25, 1999
“Cromwell was about to ravage the whole of Christendom; the royal family was lost and his own set for ever in power, but for a little grain of sand getting into his bladder. Even Rome was about to tremble beneath him. But, with this bit of gravel once there, he died, his family fell into disgrace, peace reigned and the king was restored.”
Pascal Pensées
“We are so rooted in open and systematic morbidities, in inhuman prejudices, in respectable monomanias, that a sane man terrifies us all like a lunatic.”
G.K. Chesterton “Robert Louis Stevenson” in A Handful of Authors quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #5 (May-June 2023)
“Richmond has a well-deserved reputation for being a hotbed of social rest.”
A famous American pundit whose name I failed to record on PBS October 15, 1992