Stephen Leacock Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.
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
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.
The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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.
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.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
American politicians do anything for money ... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
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.
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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.
it is the occurring which is difficult.
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.
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
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.
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.
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.
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.
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.
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.