Love, May, Sons The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. - Robertson Davies
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. - Robertson Davies
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. - Robertson Davies
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. - Robertson Davies
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year. - Robertson Davies
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music. - Doc Watson
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. - Jane Austen
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters. - Gordon Lightfoot
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board. - Grover Cleveland