Lester Bowles Pearson Famous Quotes
"The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies."
"I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, 'Are you an American' and merely return the accurate answer, 'Yes, I am a Canadian.'"
"This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag)"
"We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. (On lack of national identity)"
Lester Bowles Pearson Quotations
"Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible."
William Faulkner
No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly.
D A Battista
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
Percival Arland Ussher
"Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
Scarface
"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future."
Euripides
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Woody Allen
"Life is but a moment, death also is but another."
Dr Robert Schuller
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
Sophocles
"I hope that after I die, people will say of me 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money.'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher