On The Eighth Day

No great thing is created suddenly. - Epictetus

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero

Let each become all he was created capable of becoming. - Thomas Carlyle

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. - Jack Layton

That most elusive organ that nature has ever yet created. - Stanley Baldwin

Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. - Arnold Edinborough

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. - William Gibson

No one flower can every symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet. - William Safire

God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all. - Martin Luther

Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy. - Miles Kington

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. - Ellsworth Huntington

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley

I saw a notice which said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started. - Brendan Behan

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. - Donald Trump

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There are no crooked politicians in America. They've legalized their thievery. - Frank Dane

Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam. - Marshall McLuhan

In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever. - Oscar Wilde

It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build. - Nelson Mandela

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place. - Ryan Reynolds

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America. - Donald Trump

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Stevenson

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde

I have great, fond memories of Canada. I feel that one day my bones will more than likely end up there. - Aden Young

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. - James Joyce

Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease. - Michelle Malkin

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians,
and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. - Groucho Marx

In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations - it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir. - Stuart Keate

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. - Tommy Douglas

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards? - Jay Leno

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

If Aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. - Stephen Hawking

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer