Stephen Leacock Quotes

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• It may be those who do most, dream most.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.52, University of Toronto Press

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• 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

  Christmas, Believe, Essence

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.

  Stephen Leacock

  Life, Retirement, Growing Up

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart

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

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  Love, Marriage, Girl

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

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  Two, People, Ordinary

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.82, University of Toronto Press

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• You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

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  Long, Poverty, International Peace

  Stephen Leacock (2004). “On the Front Line of Life: Stephen Leacock : Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944”, p.253, Dundurn

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• American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.

  Stephen Leacock

  Politician

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• Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Billiards, Pool

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

  Stephen Leacock

  Money, Fear, Animal Intelligence

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press

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• 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

  Writing, Paper, Down And

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• 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.

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  Hockey, Winter, Nhl

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• About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

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  Age, Aging, Good Things

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• 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

  Inspirational, Clever, Work

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• If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Book, Smoking

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• The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

  Stephen Leacock

  Parenting, Boys, Shakes

  1916 Further Foolishness,'The Lot of the Schoolmaster'.

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• Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

  Stephen Leacock

  Jobs, Work, Specialists

  Stephen Leacock, (2013). “The Boy I Left Behind Me”, p.79, Read Books Ltd

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• In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

  Stephen Leacock

  Lying, Fall, Statistics

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• There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

  Stephen Leacock

  Running, Trying, Firsts

  Stephen Leacock (2015). “Frenzied Fiction”, p.145, Sheba Blake Publishing

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

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  Trust, Half, Bricks

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.179, University of Toronto Press

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• The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

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  Wisdom, Men, Interesting

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• The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born

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  Wheat, Lord, Economy

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.46, University of Toronto Press

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• He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

  Stephen Leacock

  Horse, Rooms, Economy

  Nonsense Novels "Gertrude the Governess; or, Simple Seventeen" (1911)

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• I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

  Stephen Leacock

  Funny, Life, Business

  Literary Lapses (1910) "Insurance up to Date"

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• In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

  Stephen Leacock

  Lying, Fall, Science

  Stephen Leacock (1939). “Model memoirs and other sketches from simple to serious”

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