Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Stephen Leacock

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock

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.
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

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
Stephen Leacock

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Stephen Leacock

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
Stephen Leacock

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock