1869-1944, Canadian Humorist, Economist
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen B. Leacock – [Advertising]
I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.
Stephen B. Leacock – [Luck]
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen B. Leacock – [Insurance Agents]
It may be those who do most, dream most.
Stephen B. Leacock – [Dreams]
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 B. Leacock – [Horses]
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen B. Leacock – [Life and Living]
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen B. Leacock – [Exasperation]
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen B. Leacock – [Marriage]
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen B. Leacock – [Dishonesty]
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen B. Leacock – [Books and Reading]
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Stephen B. Leacock – [Sorrow]
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 B. Leacock – [Enjoyment]