“What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.”
Bertold Brecht, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“History presents many occasions for citing Charles Peguy’s aphorism that God writes straight with crooked lines.”
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things August/September 2000
“Capitalism flourishes whenever it is not suppressed...
Michael Rothschild, Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism.
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
“Liquid sunshine”
What his mother always called pouring rain, according to Bill Clinton while presiding over the dedication of his presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas in a downpour, quoted in Maclean’s November 29, 2004
“O foolish creatures that destroy/ Themselves for transitory joy.”
The moral in Aesop’s tale of the flies who get stuck in the spilled honey, quoted in William Bennett The Book of Virtues
“It’s hard to argue with that kind of reasoning.”
John Robson (me) confronted with a ridiculous and belligerent argument, January 27, 2001