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:
“London, thou art of townes A per se.
Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight,
Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie;
Of lordis, barons, and many goodly knyght;
Of most delectable lusty ladies bright;
Of famous prelatis in habitis clericall;
Of merchauntis full of substaunce and myght:
London, thou art the flour of Cities all”
—William Dunbar (c. 1465–c. 1530)
“I quote another man’s saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)