"With the Great Detective, to think was to……" — Stephen Leacock

"With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together."

— Stephen Leacock

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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…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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