Quotes by 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 go out and kill something. (Stephen Leacock)

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Stephen Leacock)

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects. (Stephen Leacock)

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesnt. (Stephen Leacock)

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. (Stephen Leacock)

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. (Stephen Leacock)

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. (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)

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