English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Stephen Leacock Quotes

If their occupation is actual work they prefer to pump water into cisterns, two of which leak through holes in the bottom and one ofwhich is water-tight. A, of course, has the good one;

Stephen Leacock

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help. Aron Ralston
Ernest Hemingway quote: "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and..."
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. Ernest Hemingway
Beatrix Potter quote: "This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and..."
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail. Beatrix Potter
Michael Davis quote: "Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing..."
Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it. Michael Davis
Edward de Bono quote: "The simple process of focusing on things that are normally..."
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. Edward de Bono
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. Juliette Binoche
Tom Waits quote: "I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I..."
I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here. Tom Waits
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. Michael Rostovtzeff
These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien
Edmund Waller quote: "Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree..."
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. Edmund Waller
Logan P. Smith quote: "What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he..."
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. Logan P. Smith
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership. James MacGregor Burns
Baroness Orczy quote: "Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but..."
Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,"... Baroness Orczy
Gilbert Hernandez quote: "I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more;..."
I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters. Gilbert Hernandez
Judy Garland quote: "I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see..."
I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor. Judy Garland