Column Chronicles: The 2020 Questionable Quotes file, view one

The 2020 Questionable Quotes file, view one

Frank Cotolo
April 8, 2021

Every year we collect brief wise sayings that are often quoted but never credited. This year we have more for the Questionable Quotes File.

A work of art is, after all, work.

Nothing is more beautiful than the woods before sunrise, especially if you can see it in all of that darkness.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least, and let's face it, do not exist.

It is not your age that confesses the time you have spent alive. Or is it?

How glorious are the mountains, the tall trees, the breath of the wilderness. Too bad you live in the city.

One mediocre moment of love may lift a soul from the depths of nowhere to somewhere, if only someone were to say something like that.

A government in and of itself is inside out.

It is better to be a lion if you are a lamb and safer, too.

Whatever happens to you, how you react to it actually does not mean a thing.

To fear love is to fear feeling love and to fear feeling love is to fear accepting love instead of fearing love, which is to fear feeling love unaccepted and to fear feeling love that is unacceptable, which is to fear fearing love, period.

I think, therefore I am thinking.

At the center of violence there is no peace - just pounding and pelting and punching.

Pay it forward, but take it back in reverse.

Failure is success spelled backwards.

What makes the dolphin sing, makes the language of the dolphin, only not in words.

If the sun and the moon should ever doubt, how will we know a.m. from p.m.?

Simple serenity between a man and his life is what some call being dead.

The only thing wrong with courage is that it may attract bullets.

Be that as it may, it may be just that.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.