Stephen Leacock's Profile
Brief about Stephen Leacock: By info that we know Stephen Leacock was born at 1970-01-01. And also Stephen Leacock is Canadian Economist.
Some Stephen Leacock's quotes. Goto "Stephen Leacock's quotation" section for more.On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
Tags: Bill, Charges, SideThe classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Tags: Class, Literature, MusicThe landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
Tags: Cannot, Equal, FigureWriting 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.
Tags: Difficult, Trouble, WritingWe 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.
Tags: Forgive, Laugh, MayA half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Tags: Trust, Truth, WholeMen are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Tags: Another, Men, TrustI am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Tags: Great, Luck, WorkI detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Tags: Argue, Die, ShallGolf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Tags: Game, May, SundayAdvertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Tags: Human, Money, ScienceMany a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Tags: Girl, Love, MarriagePersonally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Tags: Imagination, Whole, WrittenLife, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Tags: Learn, Life, LivingThere are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Tags: Dislike, Ordinary, WitHe flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Tags: Himself, Horse, OffElectricity 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.
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