"Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems." — Stephen Leacock
"Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems."
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Stephen Leacock
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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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More Hold Quotes
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and…
— Margaret Atwood
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
— Saint Augustine
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to…
— Lauren Bacall
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
— Richard Bach
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
— Abigail Adams
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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has…
— Ansel Adams
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