"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Advertising
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"Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Dishonesty
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"It may be those who do most, dream most."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Dreams
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"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."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Enjoyment
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"Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Exasperation
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"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."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Horses
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"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Insurance Agents
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"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Life and Living
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"I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Luck
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"Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Marriage
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"The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Sorrow
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"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Books - Reading
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