Quotes by American Authors - Page 203

Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.
Joe Wallace
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
J. K. Galbraith
You are a big country now but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold you get pneumonia.
Herman Kahn
Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.
Evan Esar
Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
Kenneth Boulding
Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
Adlai Stevenson
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?
Margaret Mead
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
Dean Acheson
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
Paul Anka
One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
John Updike
To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution trying to kill it keeps it alive leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
Thomas Paine
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis
An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.
Franklin P. Jones
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
Arthur William Radford
Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.
Franklin P. Jones
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
Marty Allen
Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.
Ambrose Bierce
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear but the honest man who does not know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young
The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.
Woodrow Wilson
We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can.
Samuel L. Clemens
Business is religion and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
Maltbie Babcock
I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me but nobody listens!
General John Gavin
I succeed him no one could replace him.
Thomas Jefferson
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk tomorrow's senior partner.
Sigourney Weaver
After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family who I hear are wonderful people.
Howie Mandel
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
Andy Rooney
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas M. Butler
Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Milton Berle
In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that the rest is easy.
George Burns
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.
Franklin P. Adams
Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.
Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy
An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.
John Kieran
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
Hugh Prather
It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Don Marquis
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Getting bored is not allowed.
Kay Thompson
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
Erich Fromm
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
John Jay Chapman
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner the whole world opens up to you.
Barbara Sher
Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.
Julie O. Smith
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
Helen Maclnness
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Eric Hoffer
When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity self-sufficiency and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
Dr. William Menninger
Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.
Cynthia Propper Seton
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary or any other reward he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Norman Mailer
Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
William James
Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost
We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson