Thursday, 9 April 2026

Category: Column

A moral contagion

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. – Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss philosopher To reasonably understand law, justice,

THE BROKEN PROMISE …

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. — Winston Churchill, former prime minister of UK It

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Mysterious undead and so-called dead

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. – Euripides, Greek playwright Cases of people declared dead in the longhouse but

Common-sense, the guiding principle

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet “… ‘common sense’ …” said Bishop of

The police want you!

Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they’ll come home at night to take it off.  – Tom Cotton,

Thank you all for your kindness

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. – Terri Guillemets, quotation anthologist I lost my mother a fortnight ago and

Daily dosage of derring-do

Fortune befriends the bold.  – John Dryden, English poet When you begin to “thync” different, you will automatically shed being diffident and scale the realms

A cock and bull story

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. — Lillian Smith, American writer We often read about