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There is no doubt that many things in life come to us ... at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them. — Stephen Leacock

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better. — Stephen Leacock

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them. — Stephen Leacock

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in. — Stephen Leacock

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together. — Stephen Leacock

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals. — Stephen Leacock

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. — Stephen Leacock

In the field of letters, as apart from medicine and science, professors do not lead but follow. Their wisdom is always that of a post-mortem. They — 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

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket. — 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

Concealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial. — Stephen Leacock

My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them. — Stephen Leacock

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty. — Stephen Leacock

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow. — Stephen Leacock

To me, as a lover of Nature, the waving of a tree conveys thoughts which are never conveyed to me except by seeing a tree wave. — Stephen Leacock

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard. — Stephen Leacock

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. — Stephen Leacock

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. — Stephen Leacock

American politicians do anything for money ... English politicians take the money and won't do anything. — Stephen Leacock

I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be. — Stephen Leacock

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day. — Stephen Leacock

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. — Stephen Leacock

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits. — Stephen Leacock

Chess is one long regret. — Stephen Leacock

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be. — 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

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it. — Stephen Leacock

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another. — 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

The great man ... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes. — Stephen Leacock

Education that stops with school stops where it is beginning. — Stephen Leacock

Surely if we all try hard, we can all lift ourselves up high above the average. It looks a little difficult mathematically, but that's nothing. — Stephen Leacock

Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it. — Stephen Leacock

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. — Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. — 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 minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't. — Stephen Leacock

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad. — Stephen Leacock

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. — Stephen Leacock

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. — Stephen Leacock

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead! — 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

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. — Stephen Leacock

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. — Stephen Leacock

Many a man inlove with a dimple makes the mistake of marring the whole Girl — Stephen Leacock

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. — Stephen Leacock

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it — 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

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson. — Stephen Leacock

It may be those who do most, dream most. — 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

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock

It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was. — Stephen Leacock

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked. — Stephen Leacock

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems. — Stephen Leacock

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. — Stephen Leacock

broke into a blaze of effulgence. — Stephen Leacock

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. — Stephen Leacock

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America. — 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

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant. — Stephen Leacock

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all. — Stephen Leacock

A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin. — Stephen Leacock

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it. — Stephen Leacock

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him. — Stephen Leacock

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say. — Stephen Leacock