Famous Quotes
Gardiner was well-practiced as a speech-maker for the Conservatives, in his summations as a lawyer, and in Metro Toronto business. He often expressed his beliefs in turns of phrases:
- "I don't care if I win or lose. But I'll win"
- "The only symphony I understand is the one played on a cash register"
- "You'll never leave footprints in the sands of time if you sit in your cabana on the beach"
- "Nobody has ever borrowed their way to prosperity"
- "A mathematical phenomenon exists in our suburbs - multiplication by sub-division"
- "Toronto has shrunk at the core and burst at the seams"
- "It's not too much of a tempest and not much of a teapot"
- "Smile and the world smiles with you; tax and you tax alone"
- "An ability to shoot golf in the low 60s is an indication of at least a partially misspent life"
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or quotes:
“The essence of the physicality of the most famous blonde in the world is a wholesome eroticism blurred a little round the edges by the fact she is not quite sure what eroticism is. This gives her her tentative luminosity and what makes her, somehow, always more like her own image in the mirror than she is like herself.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)