Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. -Stephen Leacock Men
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. -Stephen Leacock Courage
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. -Stephen Leacock Funny
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. -Stephen Leacock Imagination
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. -Stephen Leacock Trust
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -Stephen Leacock Chance
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. -Stephen Leacock Politics
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. -Stephen Leacock Trust
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. -Stephen Leacock Death
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -Stephen Leacock Marriage
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. -Stephen Leacock Truth
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. -Stephen Leacock Music
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. -Stephen Leacock Christmas
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -Stephen Leacock Intelligence
