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Stephen Leacock Quotes

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn’t. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day’s work in his last fifty years  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it’s the occurring that’s hard  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world’s books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn’t read its books, it borrows a detective story instead  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Presently I shall be introduced as ‘this venerable old gentleman’ and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of ‘grand old man’. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) I’ve seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) When actors begin to think, it’s time for a change. They are not fitted for it.  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don’t go to lectures at all.  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn’t  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Chess is one long regret  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) It may be those who do most, dream most  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another  (Stephen Leacock Quotes) Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect  (Stephen Leacock Quotes)
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