Now and then Quote by Stephen Leacock Download Open image “A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.” — Stephen Leacock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Now and then
A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
I believe that a sportsman should be aggressive because that is what gives him or her the power to perform even in the toughest… — Shahid Afridi Copy Share Image
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher… — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop. — Joe Calzaghe Copy Share Image
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think as a sportsman we're blessed to have the opportunity to go out and play a sport. — Mayank Agarwal Copy Share Image
Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They suggest themselves… — Rodrigo Rey Rosa Copy Share Image
Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never believe them because:… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image