"The tears of childhood fall fast and easily,……" — Stephen Leacock
"The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow."
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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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More Childhood Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
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