Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

Trust, Truth, Whole

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

Trust, Men, Another

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

Die, Shall, Argue

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

Work, Great, Find

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

Sunday, Game, May

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock

Marriage, Love, Girl

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock

Imagination, Whole, Written

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

Money, Science, Long

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

Positive, Two, Negative

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

Work, Creative, Last

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock

Off, Himself, Horse

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

Life, Living, Learn

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

Said, Lord, Born

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

Two, Ordinary, Dislike

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
Stephen Leacock

Simply, Sportsman

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

Sun, Correct, Astronomy

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

Except, Laughing, British

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

Life, School, Find

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock

Times, Lies, Fall

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Stephen Leacock

Fish, Fishing, Name

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

Good, Courage, Horse

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
Stephen Leacock

Lie, Forgive, Heaven

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

Politics, Political, Nothing

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

Christmas, Spirit, Essence

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Economist

Born: December 30, 1869

Died: March 28, 1944

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