Canada Games Torch

Famous quotes containing the words canada, games and/or torch:

    “This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The rules of drinking games are taken more serious than the rules of war.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Time grows dim. Time that was so long
    grows short, time, all goggle-eyed,
    wiggling her skirts, singing her torch song,
    giving the boys a buzz and a ride,
    that Nazi Mama with her beer and sauerkraut.
    Time, old gal of mine, will soon dim out.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)