Stephen Leacock Quotes About Economy

Quotes about: Economy

• 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

  Horse, Economy, Flasks

  1910 Literary Lapses,'Reflections on Riding'.

• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Money, Fear, Animal Intelligence

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press

• There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

  Stephen Leacock

  Two, People, Ordinary

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.82, University of Toronto Press

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

  Stephen Leacock

  Lying, Fall, Statistics

• He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

  Stephen Leacock

  Horse, Rooms, Economy

  Nonsense Novels "Gertrude the Governess; or, Simple Seventeen" (1911)

• It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

  Stephen Leacock

  Political, Politics, Economy

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

  Stephen Leacock

  Use, Sun, Astronomy

  1910 Literary Lapses,'A Manual of Education'.

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

  Stephen Leacock

  Trust, Honesty, Men

  Stephen Leacock, Alan Bowker (1973). “The social criticism of Stephen 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 Leacock

  Motivational, Teamwork, Years

• On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing

  Stephen Leacock

  Two, Bills, Sides

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.18, The Floating Press

• We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

  Stephen Leacock

  Thinking, Laughing, Forgiving

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “My Discovery of England”, p.107, The Floating Press

• A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

  Stephen Leacock

  Men, Now And Then, Economy

  'My Remarkable Uncle' (1942) p. 73

• The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born

  Stephen Leacock

  Wheat, Lord, Economy

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.46, University of Toronto Press

• 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

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Swag, House

  'Literary Lapses' (1910) 'Boarding-House Geometry'

• Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

  Stephen Leacock

  Laughing, Way, Economy

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