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
strong hero men
Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.
greatness men feet
The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
silly beer men
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.
men sight giving
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.
sports player men
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.
trust honesty men
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
men now-and-then sportsman
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
fall mean men
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.
wisdom men interesting
The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
men thinking boys
You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?
appears assured forgive laugh lord noble object professor
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor
girl love man marrying mistake
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl
directions himself horse lord madly rode
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions
simply sportsman
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something