Stephen Leacock Quotes

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

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.

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it’s better than being dead!

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.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

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.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.