Leacock, Stephen Butler

Canadian (English-born) economist and humorist

chairman of economics and political science department at McGill University 1908-1936

• "The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself."
• "Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it - and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement."
• "It may be that those who do most, dream most."
• "Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour."
• "I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."