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
parent canada decided
My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
wheat lord said
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born
science house figures
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
fishing names people
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
work thinking actors
When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
latin professors ought
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
retirement autumn blow
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.
reading writing encyclopedia-britannica
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
writing firsts wells
To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.
women average moral
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
kings order suits
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.
politician
American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
golf play lifelong
I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
trust honesty men
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.