Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Topic: Advertising
Author: Stephen Leacock
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Topic: Argument
Author: Stephen Leacock
It may be those who do most, dream most.
Author: Stephen Leacock
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Author: Stephen Leacock
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Topic: Literature
Author: Stephen Leacock
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Topic: Love
Author: Stephen Leacock
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
Author: Stephen Leacock
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.
Topic: University
Author: Stephen Leacock
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.
Topic: University
Author: Stephen Leacock
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