Quotes of Stephen B. Leacock - somelinesforyou

“ 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 B. Leacock

“ I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

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

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ”

- Stephen B. 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 B. Leacock

“ The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ 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. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ 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 B. Leacock

“ The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ 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 B. Leacock

“ The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

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

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ 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. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ It may be those who do most, dream most. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

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

- Stephen B. Leacock

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

- Stephen B. Leacock

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

- Stephen B. Leacock

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

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ 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 B. Leacock

“ 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 B. Leacock

“ The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock

“ I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ”

- Stephen B. Leacock
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