Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock, FRSC was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people’s follies. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour.
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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
—Stephen Leacock
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
—Stephen Leacock
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn’t use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.
—Stephen Leacock
Topics: Libraries
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
—Stephen Leacock
Topics: Time Management, Life and Living
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
—Stephen Leacock
Topics: Imagination
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies
—Stephen Leacock
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages … so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.
—Stephen Leacock
Topics: Canada
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
—Stephen Leacock
Topics: Dreams, Foresight, Vision
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
—Stephen Leacock
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
—Stephen Leacock
Topics: Advertising
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
—Stephen Leacock
Topics: Experience, Marriage
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