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Danh ngôn của Stephen Leacock (Sứ mệnh: 2)

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.