16 Quotations by Stephen B. Leacock
- 1. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get m ...
- 2. I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- 3. I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
- 4. It may be those who do most, dream most.
- 5. It may seem that those who do the most, dream the most.
- 6. It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about f ...
- 7. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
- 8. Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madl ...
- 9. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- 10. Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expec ...
- 11. Newspapermen learn to call a murderer an alleged murderer and the King of England the alleged King o ...
- 12. The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and ...
- 13. The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the wor ...
- 14. The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
- 15. Too much has been said of the heroes of history -- the strong men, the troublesome men; too little o ...
- 16. What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Tho ...
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