Stephen Leacock Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Stephen Leacock Quotes and Sayings


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    A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    It may be those who do most, dream most. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 21
    Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 22
    On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 25
    The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 26
    The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 28
    We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
  • 29
    What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF
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    Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. Stephen Leacock | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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