I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. – Stephen Leacock
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 couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock
Its called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. – 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. – Stephen Leacock
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. – 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. – Stephen Leacock
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. – Stephen Leacock
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Leacock
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Stephen Leacock
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. – 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. – Stephen Leacock
He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. – Stephen Leacock
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. – Stephen Leacock
