Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
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Stephen Leacock Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Canada
  • Born: Dec 30, 1869
  • Died: Mar 28, 1944

Stephen P. H Butler Leacock, FRSC was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1910 and 1925, he was the most widely read English-speaking author in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

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.