Best Stephen Leacock Sayings
- It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and… Aristophanes
- You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of… Boy
- All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour,… All
- Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be. Comforter
- We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have… All
- Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If… Alone
- A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell… All
- Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old… Any
- You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am… Able
- My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them. Canada
- Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in… Always Found
- A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. Argument
- Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. Able
- I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Believer
- I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Agents
- Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Advertising
- Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. Effort
- Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. Day
- Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Dimple
- Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Alice
- 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… All
- He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. All
- Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the… Cheaper
- Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. British
- 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,… Cents
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