 Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. |
| It may be those who do most, dream most. |
| If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it. |
| It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. |
| It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. |
| A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. |
| There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. |
| Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. |
| Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. |
| We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor. |
| Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. |
| Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. |
| It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it. |
| Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. |
| 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. Topics: Christmas |
| I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. |
| A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. |
| The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. |
| Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. |
| The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. |
