143 Quotes by Stephen Leacock

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

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.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.