As early as February 2020, a month before Covid-19 had even been declared a pandemic, and a full year before there were vaccines the World…
On April 23, Ontario’s health officer, Dr. Kieran Moore, reconfirmed the province’s mask mandate, four days before the mandate was scheduled to be lifted altogether.…
Really? The best way to win a race is to run slowly and to never vary your pace? This dubious maxim is from Aesop’s fable…
The phrase was originally meant literally. In John Fitzherbert’s 1534 Book of Husbandry, he warns shepherds that they had better train their dogs to herd…
“And now go,” Neil Gaiman urged his audience at the end of his commencement speech at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, in 2015.…
This phrase comes from Lucretius, who in his poem De Rerum Natura, sums up all the scientific knowledge known in the first century before the…
In Margaret Atwood’s novel The Blind Assassin, when young Claire Chase asks questions about her mother’s miscarriage – “How could anything so little hurt Mama?”…
In the poem Comus, John Milton asks, “Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud / turn forth her silver lining on the night?” He…
This bit of machismo wisdom originated with Nietzsche, who was a professional scoffer. His book, Twilight of the Idols (1888), subtitled How to Philosophize with…
Dubious Maxim 1: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. This expression may have originated in falconry, a sport that never…