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Type: Economist Quotes Category: Quotes Year of Birth: 1869 Year of Death: 1944 Nationality: Canadian Find on Amazon: Stephen Leacock Related Authors: John Kenneth Galbraith Thomas Sowell Adam Smith Milton Friedman Jeremy Rifkin John Maynard Keynes John W. Snow Douglass North |
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Stephen Leacock Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. Stephen Leacock Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. Stephen Leacock 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 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 He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. Stephen Leacock I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Leacock I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock 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 In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. Stephen Leacock It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. Stephen Leacock It may be those who do most, dream most. Stephen Leacock 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 It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it. Stephen Leacock It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. Stephen Leacock Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. Stephen Leacock Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Stephen Leacock Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. Stephen Leacock 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 On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. Stephen Leacock Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Stephen Leacock The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Stephen Leacock The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Stephen Leacock 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 The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. Stephen Leacock There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. Stephen Leacock 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 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 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 |
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