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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experienc

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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spir

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I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is t

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After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 of marriage!

Water flows uphill towards money.

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Water flows uphill towards money.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious aft

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

In Beverley Hills, they don't throw their garbage

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In Beverley Hills, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into television shows.

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances

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I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

Lady Nancy Astor, Viscountess: If you

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Lady Nancy Astor, Viscountess: If you were my husband, Winston, I should flavour your coffee with poison.
Winston Churchill: If I were your husband, madam, I should drink it.

There are really only three things to learn in sk

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There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its

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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

How did it happen that their lips came together?&

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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, an

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Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its

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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watc

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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Ame

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If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.

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