Stephen Leacock Quotes & Sayings
30 most famous Stephen Leacock quotes and sayings (economist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
“It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
“Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.”
“The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.”
“Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.”
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
“A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”
“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”
“There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.”
“Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.”
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