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Stephen Leacock quotes

Canadian Economist December 30, 1869 – March 28, 1944

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock quote: "It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it."
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for 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. Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock quote: "It may be those who do most, dream most."
It may be those who do most, dream most. Stephen Leacock
We 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. Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock quote: "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence..."
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock
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. Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock quote: "Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland..."
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock quote: "It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to..."
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock quote: "There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary..."
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock quote: "He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse..."
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock quote: "It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do..."
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock quote: "I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall..."
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock
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. Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock quote: "A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go..."
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. Stephen Leacock

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