57 ordspråk av Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock föddes den 30 desember 1869 och dog den 28 mars 1944 - kanadensisk författare och nationalekonom.
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Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itselfit is the occurring which is difficult.

Skrivandet är inget problem: man skriver bara ner idéer när de förekommer för dig. Att skriva ner är av sig självt enkelheten själv - det är förekomsten som är svår.

Skrive

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Elektricitet

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions

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

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so

Jul

The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl

Kjærlighet

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

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

Lek

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

Reklame

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

Politikk

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.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" to avoid libel suits.

Journalistik

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