57 ordspråk av Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock föddes den December 30th 1869 och dog den 28 March 1944 - Canadian writer
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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. |
| It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it |
| Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour |
| Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. |
| 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 |
| The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. |
| The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead. |
| 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. |
| The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. |
 Reklam är konsten att hejda den mänskliga tanken länge nog för att lura av den pengar. |
| Jag avskyr livförsäkringsagenter. De påstår jämt att jag ska dö en vacker dag och det tänker jag då inte göra. |
| Mången man som förälskat sig i en skrattgrop gör misstaget att gifta sig med hela flickan. |
| Ingen falnande skönhet som ser sig i spegeln lider mer intensivt än en författare som trött närmar sig ålderdomen. |
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