“In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature Scotch for sermons and American for conversation.”
“In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature Scotch for sermons and American for conversation.”
Stephen Leacock
“It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.”
Stephen Leacock“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”
Stephen Leacock“It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
Stephen Leacock“Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.”
Stephen Leacock“Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.”
Stephen Leacock“It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.”
Stephen Leacock“A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”
Stephen Leacock“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Stephen Leacock“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
Stephen Leacock“The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.”
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