WIST Quotations

Leacock, Stephen -- (Attributed)

Dave — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:58:16 +0000

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

Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) Canadian economist, writer and humorist
(Attributed)

Dave — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:26:32 +0000

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

Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) Canadian economist, writer and humorist
The Garden of Folly, “The Perfect Salesman” (1924)

Dave — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:24:09 +0000

The parent who could see his boy as he really is would shake his head and say: ‘Willy is no good: I’ll sell him.’

Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) Canadian economist, writer and humorist
The Lot of the Schoolmaster (1916)