Encyclopedia Quote by Stephen Leacock

My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

— Stephen Leacock

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

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

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

— Stephen Leacock

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

A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.

— Stephen Leacock

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

— Stephen Leacock

Chess is one long regret.

— Stephen Leacock

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

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

— Stephen Leacock

“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

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