Boarding house Quote by Stephen Leacock Download Open image “Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.” — Stephen Leacock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boarding house Food House Meals Squares Together Two
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My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread. — John Muir 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
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
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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
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“tagged along. He felt that Marvin was now his responsibility, and he wanted to keep an eye on him. No telling what the captain… — Frankie Gaye Copy Share Image
It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces. — Darrell Royal Copy Share Image
“In Britain I found things to be very different. I have yet to meet a single English person who has actually admitted to anti-negro… — E.R. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
There was so much anti-Irish sentiment not just from other kids at the school I went to in Britain, but also the teachers themselves.… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“And men are subject, also, to this same Law of Attraction. Go into any cheap boarding house district in any city and there you… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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