A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
Stephen Leacock
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Stephen Leacock
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
Stephen Leacock
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
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Leacock
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Stephen Leacock
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock
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
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Stephen Leacock
It may be those who do most, dream most.
Stephen 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 Leacock
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
Stephen Leacock
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Stephen Leacock
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen Leacock
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock
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