"We know as well as history can teach us that all religions are one and the same- all the outgrowth of man's moral nature, differing only according to the intelligence and advancement of the people among whom they originated"

"Truth is the daughter of God, and in all her attributes God-like and eternal. Truth never depreciates in value"

"Je suis un homme de cause, je ne suis pas un individualiste et je pense en mon âme et conscience que je ne pourrais pas servir la société comme je voudrais le faire avec ce niveau d'appui."

"I want to govern provincially no more. I want national independence. […] I took time for this decision because I know all the perils of this mission. I want to ask you to struggle also in order that our country can be born in a close future."

"Tous les partis devraient être féministes!"

"Je suis un homme de causes, de collectivité, pas un individualiste."

"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."

"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."

"When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation."

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"

"Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object."

"The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time."

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."

"On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman."

"The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively."

"Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence"

"Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull."

"Some Blockett-type employees actually believe that they have received a genuine promotion; others recognize the truth. But the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success."

"In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Do not be fooled by apparent exceptions."

"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

"Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it."

"In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level."

"Dr. Peter effectively destroys examples of seeming exceptions and is rather convincing that his principle is ubiquitous."

"Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions."

"With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which."

"The Lord said "Let there be wheat" and Saskatchewan was born."

"Americans are queer people: they can't rest."

"Of course, Pupkin would never have thought of considering himself on an intellectual par with Mallory Tompkins. That would have been ridiculous. Mallory Tompkins had read all sorts of things and had half a mind to write a novel himself—either that or a play. All he needed, he said, was to have a chance to get away somewhere by himself and think. Every time he went away to the city Pupkin expected that he might return with the novel all finished; but though he often came back with his eyes red from thinking, the novel as yet remained incomplete."

"My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them."

"Many of my friends are under the impression that I write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to perform the serious labours of the economist. My own experience is exactly the other way. The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far between. Personally, I would sooner have written "Alice in Wonderland" than the whole Encyclopaedia Britannica."

"A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional."

"You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now."

"Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not allowed to indicate and in a language which I am forbidden to use)—that Austria-Hungary is about to take a diplomatic step of the highest importance. What this step is, I am forbidden to say. But the consequences of it—which unfortunately I am pledged not to disclose—will be such as to effect results which I am not free to enumerate."

"You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?"

"The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence."

"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."

"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."

"Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty."

"It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish."