143 Quotes by Stephen Leacock

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

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