Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

Stephen Leacock's Popular Quotes

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

- Stephen Leacock

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

- Stephen Leacock

How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And th…

- Stephen Leacock

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

- Stephen Leacock

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

- Stephen Leacock

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

- Stephen Leacock

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.

- Stephen Leacock

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

- Stephen Leacock