Stephen Leacock

“What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.”

“Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.”

“Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.”

“Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get...”

“He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

“A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”

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

“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.”

“It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.”

“A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.”

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

“Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.”

“The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.”