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
directions himself horse lord madly rode
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions
continent hair jail kept means snow till white
A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.
collar general laundry shirt
The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.
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
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.
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.
not-good-enough facts enough
I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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.
simply sportsman
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something