Zitate und Sprüche von Stephen Leacock

Zitate und Sprüche von Stephen Leacock

Stephen Butler Leacock (* 30. Dezember 1869 in Swanmore bei Bishop’s Waltham, Hampshire, Vereinigtes Königreich; † 28. März 1944 in Toronto, Ontario, Kanada) war ein kanadischer Politikwissenschaftler, Ökonom, Schriftsteller und Humorist.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.