The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
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 detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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.
I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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.
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.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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.
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...
When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
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