57 ordspråk av Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock föddes den 30 december 1869 och dog den 28 marts 1944 - kanadensisk författare och nationalekonom.
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 Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" to avoid libel suits. |
| `A', whispered C, `I think I'm going fast.' `How fast do you think you'll go, old man?' murmured A. `I don't know,' said C, `but I'm going at any rate.' |
| 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. |
| We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor |
| Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect |
| 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. |
| Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. |
| Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour |
| It may be those who do most, dream most. |
| It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it |
| I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. |
| I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so |
| 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. |
| A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty. |
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