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
not-good-enough facts enough
I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
motivational teamwork years
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.
silly beer men
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.
parenting boys shakes
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.
political politics economy
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
suicide kind aspect
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.
sunday golf law
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
simply sportsman
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something