If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!
Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.
History is a record of exploded ideas.
Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.