"If every day in the life of a……" — Stephen Leacock
"If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it."
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82 Quotes by Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock has 82 quotes on this site.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey…
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In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing…
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Chess is one long regret.
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In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations…
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo,…
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A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing…
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Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing…
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
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More Day Quotes
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
— Alexis Arguello
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
— Aristotle
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
— Julian Assange
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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