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Stephen Leacock
Canadian
Economist
About the author
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
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,
Canadian
Economist
#Golf
#Being
#May
#Law
#Effort
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Love
#Man
#Mistake
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Life
#Day
#Living
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Men
#Trust
#Dishonesty
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,
Canadian
Economist
#Now
#First
#Spirit
#Christmas
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Music
#Literature
#Class
#Medicine
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,
Canadian
Economist
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#People
#Information
#Conversation
#Wit
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Will
#May
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,
Canadian
Economist
#Writing
#Ideas
#Simplicity
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Nothing
#Politics
#Economy
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,
Canadian
Economist
#Work
#Years
#Day
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,
Canadian
Economist
#Positive
#Negative
#Difference
#Electricity
#Moths
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Work
#Luck
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Will
#Lie
#Heaven
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Now
#Man
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Science
#Money
#Intelligence
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Truth
#Argument
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Life
#Day
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,
Canadian
Economist
#Life
#Day
#School
#Fault
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Lies
#Statistics
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#People
#Name
#Fish
#Fishing
It may be those who do most, dream most.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#May
#Dream
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,
Canadian
Economist
#Courage
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Stephen Leacock,
Canadian
Economist
#Sun
#Astronomy