Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 6

My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.
Karl Beveridge
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If we seek the pleasures of love passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
Follow your heart and you perish.
Margaret Laurence
Our sons who so easily recognize our errors and rightly denounce them will have to confess their own later on and they may be as bad as ours perhaps worse.
Bruce Hutchison
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.
Ivan Eyre
Some day they will know what I mean.
Tom Thomson
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
Lord Beaverbrook
Envy comes from people's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
It is not how old you are but how you are old.
Marie Dressier
When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'
John A. Macdonald
When things come to the worst they generally mend.
Susanna Moodie
There are a great many opinions in this world and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
Mavis Gallant
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Laurence J. Peter
I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months but you don't get the fourth without it.
Mordecai Richler
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
Grenville Kleiser
Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.
Robert W. Service
Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen Leacock
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies
The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.
Bliss Carman
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
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
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
The sun gives us light but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes you'll become a poet.
Serge Bouchard
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
Bliss Carman
The first thing each morning and the last thing each night suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself silently or aloud until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
Grenville Kleiser
Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
Grenville Kleiser
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. ... If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again you may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
There are ten commandments right? Well it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten you're just about top of the class.
Mordecai Richler
The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.
Hugh MacLennan
How do you make a million? You start with $900 000.
Stephen Lewis
Money is the poor people's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan
The world is my country the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god the future of man is my heaven.
F. R. Scott
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
Louis Dudek
Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
Richard J. Needham
As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
L.M. Montgomery
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
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Mary Pickford
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
Arthur Hailey
A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
Love you know seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
Ralph Connor
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen Leacock
The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
Laurence J. Peter
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen Leacock
Basically I'm interested in friendship sex and death.
Sharon Riis
This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive.
Robert W. Service
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
Lister Sinclair
I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.
Maurice Duplessis
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
Hart Pomerantz
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
Northrop Frye
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism.
Arthur R. M. Lower