Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Stephen P. H Butler Leacock, FRSCwas a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1910 and 1925, he was the most widely read English-speaking author 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...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 December 1869
CountryCanada
latin professors ought
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
science house figures
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
lying fall miracle
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.
regret long chess
Chess is one long regret.
fishing names people
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
wheat lord said
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born
school littles lasts
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
laughing way economy
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
parent canada decided
My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
people toronto found
Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.
struggle fall math
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.
two scotch literature
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.
light race world
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.
two sides bills
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing