Stephen Leacock Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.”

“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.”

“Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.”

“What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.”

“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.”

“It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.”

“We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.”

“Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.”

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