Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Stephen P. H Butler Leacock, FRSCwas a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1910 and 1925, he was the most widely read English-speaking author in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 December 1869
CountryCanada
love marriage girl
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
trust half bricks
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
use sun astronomy
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
two people information
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit
writing paper down-and
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
ignorance carpe-diem encyclopedia-britannica
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
horse rooms economy
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
science two differences
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.
writing ideas simplicity
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
money fear animal-intelligence
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
funny life business
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
things-in-life doubt speak
There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.
mark difficult
It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.
growth tears literature
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.