Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 8

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
J. K. Galbraith
I feel a recipe is only a theme which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
Madame Benoit
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row That mark our place and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
John McCrae
Men who look young act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.
Robertson Davies
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long human nature is incapable of supporting it.
James De Mille
I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.
Ralph Connor
Fear has a smell as Love does.
Margaret Atwood
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
O.A. Battista
Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
God loves us the way we are but too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford
The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.
Agnes C. Laut
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
Marie Dressier
You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.
Edmund Vance Cooke
If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
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
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.
Mary Pickford
One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
Whenever you fall pick something up.
Oswald Avery
Don't fight with the pillow but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
Edmund Vance Cooke
Shed as you do your garments your daily sins whether of omission or commission and you will wake a free man with a new life.
Sir William Osier
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Thomas C. Haliburton
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman
The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
Lloyd Percival
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
J. K. Galbraith
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.
Marshall McLuhan
The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
Stephen Leacock
The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
Wendy Michener
Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.
Lord Thomson of Fleet
The Englishman respects your opinions but he never thinks of your feelings.
Wilfrid Laurier
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
Northrop Frye
A good education should leave much to be desired.
Alan Gregg
No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
Thomas Haliburton
He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.
William Lyon Mackenzie
Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.
Hugh Hood
It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.
Celine Dion
Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees.
Saul Bellow
Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.
Laurence J. Peter
To know just what has do be done then to do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osier
A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.
Alan Gregg
A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
Louis Dudek
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.
Robertson Davies
When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.
John Kenneth Galbraith
There are some women who seem to be born without fear just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women maybe out of astonishment.
Margaret Atwood
It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.
Marion Woodman
Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.
Bliss Carman
Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.
Jan Wong
Every dogma has its day.
Abraham Rotstein
Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies
The bravest thing that men do is love women.
Mort Sahl
I thought I was in love once and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.
Benton Fraser
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.
Caroline Rhea
My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.
David Steinberg
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
Northrop Frye
Circumstances alter cases.
Thomas Haliburton
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock
Change must be measured from a known base line.
Evan Shute
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Thomas Haliburton