The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.
The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only c...
I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.
I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I...
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature Scotch for sermons and American for conversation.
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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