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.
greatness men feet
The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
humor expression may
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
political politics economy
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
clever tired reality
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.
country fighting winning
As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does one good to see a straight, fine, honest fight where the best man wins. When a Liberal got in, it made him mad, and he said so,-not, mind you; from any political bias, for his office forbid it,-but simply because one can't bear to see the country go absolutely to the devil.
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.
tragedy world humour
All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.
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