Quote by Stephen Leacock Download Open image ““begirt with a flowing kirtle”” — Stephen Leacock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
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“Unelmate maal rännates on kerge eksida, kuid tagasitee reaalsusse on alati kindel.” — Arvo Valton Copy Share Image
“You force all things to flow towards you and into you, so that they shall flow back again out of your fountain as the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When you stop beside a river, you get this message: Flow! And when you flow, you meet the never-seen and the never-lived parts of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde, Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheen May God grant you a storm! The voyage of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth… — Kenneth Grahame 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
