Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 3

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.
Mordecai Richler
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is in fact a return to the idealized past.
Robertson Davies
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
Jane Jacobs
The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.
Northrop Frye
Death and taxes are inevitable.
Thomas Haliburton
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial industry and singleness of purpose. As a result they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser
Actually I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
Monty Hall
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.
L.M. Montgomery
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but you may note this fact that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman
Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.
William Maxwell Aitken
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Sir William Osier
If people knew what they had to do to be successful most people wouldn't.
Lord Thomson of Fleet
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed but you may note this fact that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Edward Weeks
Hockey captures the essence of the Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold hockey is the dance of life and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
Bruce Kidd
All pro athletes are bilingual. They speak English and profanity.
Gordie Howe
A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
Stephen Leacock
Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.
Dick Beddoes
Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.
Wayne Gretzsky
God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.
Arthur Stringer
When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department I'll tell him 'Count your blessings you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!'
Richard J. Needham
I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.
Jane Rule
Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
Grenville Kleiser
Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.
Agnes Macphail
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
Carol Shields
The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.
Robert W. Service
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
L.M. Montgomery
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will treat others with respect kindness and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.
Nathaniel Branden
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.
Colleen Dewhurst
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.
Bernard Lonergan
If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.
John Newlove
The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.
Robert Service
Man's security comes from within himself.
Manly Hall
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
J. K. Galbraith
Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.
Elizabeth Smart
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
Charles H. Fowler
A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame and the brunt of the storm.
Herbert N. Casson
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Basil King
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
Robertson Davies
Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
Laurence J. Peter
Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Laurence J. Peter
After all what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
The Globe and Mail
You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could have let yourself go and dug harder.
Emily Carr
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
L.M. Montgomery
Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.
Laurence J. Peter
We also serve who only punctuate.
Brian Moore
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock