Canada Funny Quotes

• Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

  Robin Williams

  Party, Memorable, Canada

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

  Pierre Berton

  Making Love, Canada, Patriotism And Nationalism

  Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973

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• The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.

  June Callwood

  Humorous, Fall, Eagles

  June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

  Tommy Douglas

  Inspirational, Humorous, Ontario

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. June 29, 1983.

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• Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Baseball, Country, Humorous

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• There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

  Douglas Coupland

  Men, Names, Snow

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• When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

  Jane Fonda

  World, Canada, Should

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• I don't even know what street Canada is on.

  Al Capone

  Humorous, Canada, Streets

  "Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada". Book by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206, 2009.

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• Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.

  Steve Miller

  Heart, Pride, May

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• There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, People, Canada

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• The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

  Rick Mercer

  Giving, Allies, Canada

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• Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

  Pierre Trudeau's farewell speech to the Liberal Party, June 14, 1984.

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• Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

  Allan A. Lamport

  Country, Canada, Nations

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• We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.

  Bob Rae

  Land, People, Diversity

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• Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Strong, Pride, Past

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• The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Canada, Advantage, Huge

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• If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

  Stompin' Tom Connors

  Country, Thinking, Canada

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.

  Andy Barrie

  Rifles, Association, Canada

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• I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

  John Diefenbaker

  Ruling The World, Canada, Excited

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• With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.

  Will Ferguson

  Canada, Void, Royal

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• Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

  Peter Jennings

  Effort, Abiding, Littles

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• After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

  Farley Mowat

  Country, Canada, Hell

  Farley Mowat (1985). “My Discovery of America”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Loyalty, Inspiration, Mean

  Lester B. Pearson (1970). “Words and Occasions: An Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from His Papers”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Peers, Canada, Privilege

  "It's great up north" by Henry Porter, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• I always thought of this as God's country.

  Jack Granatstein

  Country, Canada, Canada Day

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