"If I were founding a university I would……" — Stephen Leacock
"If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books."
—
Stephen Leacock
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
82 Quotes by Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock has 82 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
It may be those who do most, dream most.
-
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little…
-
Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey…
-
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
-
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
-
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing…
-
Chess is one long regret.
-
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations…
-
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo,…
-
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing…
-
Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
-
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing…
See all 82 quotes by Stephen Leacock »
More Begin Quotes
This quote is filed under Begin Quotes,
one of 4,334 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
-
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
— Chinua Achebe
-
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in…
— Chinua Achebe
-
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
-
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
-
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
— Saint Augustine
-
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
-
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
-
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action…
— Abigail Adams
-
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
See all 4,334 Begin Quotes »