Author: Stephen Leacock

Quotes

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

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

- Stephen Leacock

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

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, 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.

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

- Stephen Leacock

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Stephen Leacock

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.

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

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

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

- Stephen Leacock

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

- Stephen Leacock

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