Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront. Stephen Leacock More Quotes by Stephen Leacock More Quotes From Stephen Leacock I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be. Stephen Leacock professors ought latin A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Stephen Leacock economy now-and-then men American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything. Stephen Leacock politician There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them. Stephen Leacock things-in-life speak doubt Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. Stephen Leacock trust honesty men Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals. Stephen Leacock squares food two All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools. Stephen Leacock yesterday education needs 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 Stephen Leacock swag house science Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it. Stephen Leacock light race world In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation. Stephen Leacock canada scotch two 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. Stephen Leacock autumn blow retirement My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them. Stephen Leacock decided canada parent Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it. Stephen Leacock toronto found people Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have. Stephen Leacock A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. Stephen Leacock Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. Stephen Leacock Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits. Stephen Leacock
