Because of the city upon a hill sound bite, is one of the formative documents outlining the idea of America. But dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might hav...
There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'
(n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.
The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.
...my body has becomeanother countryand I feel like an unemployedillegal alienhow will I survivewhere I do not belongI belong with you
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.
One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.
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.
Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.
Historically a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.
The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.
Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.
When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.
Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.
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.