Quotes by Journalists - Page 22

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries one here and one in Europe national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.
Henri Bourassa
My generation of Canadians grew up believing that if we were very good or very smart or both we would some day graduate from Canada.
Robert Fulford
Canada's national bird is the grouse.
Stuart Keate
Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.
Stuart Keate
Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.
Walter Stewart
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
Goldwin Smith
Canada is a society rather than a nation.
Kildare Dobbs
Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4 000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan Italy than to Vancouver.
Simon Hoggart
The father of confederation is deadlock.
Goldwin Smith
Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.
Ambrose Bierce
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
Andy Rooney
An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.
John Kieran
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Norman Mailer
Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
H.L. Mencken
A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
Norman Cousins
Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.
Walt Whitman
I am a part of all I have read.
John Kieran
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
Francis Yeats-Brown
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening seldom sinful and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
Ernest Hemingway
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman
When you're the only pea in the pod your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
Russell Baker
Always a godfather - never a god!
Alexander Woollcott
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Helen Rowland
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living colour.
William Bolitho
Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus
The melancholy days have come the saddest of the year Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
William Cullen Bryant
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
H.L. Mencken
If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'
Émile Zola
With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Norman Mailer
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.
Albert Camus
About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.
G. D. Prentice
The echo of a platitude.
Ambrose Bierce
When words leave off music begins.
Heinrich Heine
Find the good - and praise it.
Alex Haley
Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.
Norman Cousins
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing rather than fear of being killed was the most common cause of battle failure and that fear of failure ran a strong second.
S. L. A. Marshall
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
Katherine Anne Porter
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
I think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contain'd I stand and look at them long and long They do not sweat and whine about their condition They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God Not one is dissatisfied not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that liveth thousands of years ago Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Walt Whitman
I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.
Dana Burnet
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
The swaggering underemphasis of New England.
Heywood Broun
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H.L. Mencken
He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.
Gilbert Millstein
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
June Callwood
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsewhere everybody here wants to be Somebody.
Sydney J. Harris
New York the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley
A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'
Christopher Morley
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
Murray Kempton
The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Jimmy Breslin
When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
Finley Peter Dunne
Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.
Daniel Defoe
If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
I.F. Stone
The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.
Jacques Bainville
Good counsel has no price.
Guiseppe Mazzini