TONY CARELLA
I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Honours Modern History from St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto and taught history and law at the senior secondary level for 18 years. My interest in politics is natural, as I grew up in a family where politics was the usual topic of dinnertime conversation. Indeed, I first served as a campaign canvasser at age thirteen and attended my first national political convention two years later.
TONY CARELLA
I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Honours Modern History from St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto and taught history and law at the senior secondary level for 18 years. My interest in politics is natural, as I grew up in a family where politics was the usual topic of dinnertime conversation. Indeed, I first served as a campaign canvasser at age thirteen and attended my first national political convention two years later.
MY SOURCES
The quotations at this website were found in various locations as referenced with each quotation—some from editions of a particular author’s work, some in online versions of the works of other authors, others just folk expressions. But the bulk of what follows come from collections of quotations, a favourite excavation site of mine since I discovered them in my teens.
I am especially grateful to the editors of these collections, for making my work so much easier
- Famous Lasting Words: Great Canadian Quotations, John Robert Colombo, ed., (Vancouver: 2000)
- The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed., (London: 1986),
- The Great Thoughts, George Seldes, ed., (New York: 1985)
- The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, Tony Augarde, ed., (Oxford: 1997)
- The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, Antony Jay, ed., (Oxford: 1997)
- The Portable Curmudgeon, Jon Winokur, ed., (New York: 1987)