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Stephen Leacock - From the Books category:
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Commerce category:
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Communication category:
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Creativity category:
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 - From the Dreams category:
It may be that those who do most, dream most. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Drunkenness category:
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Education category:
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)
Stephen Leacock - From the Frustration category:
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Greatness category:
The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Life category:
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Politics category:
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Truth category:
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Universe category:
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Work category:
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more of it I have. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Writing category:
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down and write it as it occurs to you. The writing is easy – it's the occurring that's hard. (Stephen Leacock)
Stephen Leacock - From the Writing category:
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)
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