Talk:Stephen Leacock

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[this one is from "Homer and Humbug" http://www.online-literature.com/stephen-leacock/behind-the-beyond/6/ somebody else edit it in i'm too lazy ]
 * The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.


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


 * Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.


 * Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.


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


 * 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.


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


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


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


 * It may be those who do most, dream most.


 * 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.


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


 * It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.


 * Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.


 * Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.


 * Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.


 * Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" to avoid libel suits.


 * 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.


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


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


 * Synopsis of Previous Chapters: There are no Previous Chapters.


 * The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.


 * The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.


 * 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.


 * The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.'


 * There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.


 * We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.


 * 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.


 * I throw ink at the wolf, to keep it from the door.