You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in. Stephen Leacock More Quotes by Stephen Leacock More Quotes From Stephen Leacock Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. Stephen Leacock astronomyusesun Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. Stephen Leacock differencestwoscience 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 flaskseconomyhorse The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket. Stephen Leacock lazyfightinggames Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard. Stephen Leacock down-andpaperwriting Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all. Stephen Leacock cleverworkinspirational The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America. Stephen Leacock sorroweuropeamerica The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu. Stephen Leacock alivelanguagecharacter Chess is one long regret. Stephen Leacock regretchesslong In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked. Stephen Leacock womenmoralaverage 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. Stephen Leacock would-belittlesschool When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it. Stephen Leacock actorsworkthinking Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems. Stephen Leacock professorspoststheory All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world. Stephen Leacock humourtragedyworld With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together. Stephen Leacock detectivestogetherthinking The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow. Stephen Leacock childhoodevilfall I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better. Stephen Leacock lifelongplaygolf To write well it is first necessary to have something to say. Stephen Leacock wellswritingfirsts 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. Stephen Leacock suitskingsorder The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems. Stephen Leacock unbrokenfourart
