Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.