Vincent Massey Quotes

#1. Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

Vincent Massey

#2. It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

Vincent Massey

#3. The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

Vincent Massey

#4. Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

E. T. Bell

#5. The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

Vincent Massey

#6. In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

Vincent Massey

#7. Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can be seen with the eyes, but the back body can only be felt. That's why I say these are the most advanced postures, where the mind begins to look at the back.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#8. Value people on their potential, not on their history.

Bo Bennett

#9. Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. Right now, there is a stronger, more vibrant, more inspired version of "you" that is wanting and waiting to emerge.

Debbie Ford

#11. We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

Vincent Massey

#12. If it wasn't for insomnia, I'd never get anything done.

Andrew Cormier

#13. Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

Vincent Massey

#14. Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

David Prowse

#15. The main causes for divorce
are marriages.

A.J. Beirens

#16. I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

Drew Carey

#17. The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

Vincent Massey

#18. My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.

Jean Craighead George

#19. It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?

Vincent Massey

#20. History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

Vincent Massey

#21. Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

Vincent Massey

#22. I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.

Vincent Massey

#23. How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

Vincent Massey

#24. In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.

Vincent Massey

#25. Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

Vincent Massey

#26. It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.

Romany Malco