I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall someday die, which is not so
Stephen Butler Leacock quote I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out', and meritus, 'so he ought to be'.
Stephen Butler Leacock quote There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Butler Leacock quote 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 Butler Leacock quote Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Butler Leacock quote The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen Butler Leacock quote The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.'
Stephen Butler Leacock quote Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Butler Leacock quote Biography
Lived 1869 - 1944, Canadian humorist
