3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock 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.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock 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.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock 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.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock It’s called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
