Newest Quotes by Canadians
Newest Quotes, In order Most Recently Added
| Quote | Author |
| Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" to avoid libel suits. | Stephen Leacock |
| Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. | Stephen Leacock |
| I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. | Stephen Leacock |
| “I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. | Stephen Leacock |
| 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. | Stephen Leacock |
| The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. | Stephen Leacock |
| A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. | Stephen Leacock |
| Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. | Stephen Leacock |
| Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. | Stephen Harper |
| The nature of our constitution is that everyone is supposed to be able to do their own thing in their own area of jurisdiction. | Stephen Harper |
| The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade. | Stephen Harper |
| You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. | Saul Bellow |
| What is art but a way of seeing? | Saul Bellow |
| A man is only as good as what he loves. | Saul Bellow |
| People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. | Saul Bellow |
| When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. | Saul Bellow |
| I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you." | Saul Bellow |
| We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. | Saul Bellow |
| Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. | Saul Bellow |
| Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. | Saul Bellow |
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