I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

— Stephen Leacock

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

— Stephen Leacock

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.

— Stephen Leacock

I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Stephen Leacock

It may be that those who do most dream most.

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Stephen Leacock

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.

— Stephen Leacock

Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Stephen Leacock