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
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. – Stephen Leacock
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. – Stephen Leacock
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Stephen Leacock
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. – Eugene Ionesco