Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!
Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.
As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the 'veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.
Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.
When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.
Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.
The scientists at CERN were actually surprised that people commented on this. Reportedly Fabiola Gianotti, the coordinator of the CERN program to find the Higgs Boson, was asked why she had selected Comic Sans. She simply said, "Because I like it. "
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.