Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon,… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could begin. This… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
