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Stephen Leacock Quotes
Page 2 of 2Stephen Leacock
December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Economist
|  Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. | | 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. | | Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. | | On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. | | 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. | | In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. | | 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. | | He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. | | I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. | | Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. |
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