Unextravagant Quotes & Sayings

In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves. — Douglas Coupland

And soon all our minds will be flat as a pancake,
With no room for genius exaltation or heartache.
And our children and theirs will preen, smirk and chatter,
With not even the sense to ask what is the matter. — Stevie Smith

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power. — Alan Greenspan

There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue. It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. — Alexander Hamilton

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. — Elizabeth Fry

Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little. — Leonard Michaels

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. — Tom Stoppard

Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall. — Davy Crockett

I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling. — Mahatma Gandhi

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay

While I had many friends as a child I aslo kept a great deal to myself. I noticed that adults were drawn to me. They would talk to me for hours at my parents' parties. Strange to find yourself at seven, dressed in pagamas with feet, listening to adults tell you their deepest secrets. — Frederick Lenz