"The road comes to an end just when……" — Stephen Leacock
"The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else."
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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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If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little…
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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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The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that…
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On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten…
— Pope John XXIII
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Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the…
— Lenny Kaye
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It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
— Winston Churchill
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a…
— Tahir Shah
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Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely,…
— Rhonda Byrne
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All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this…
— Robert Greene
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One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
— Robert Greene
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People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
— Philip Guedalla
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