Quote #25
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
More from Stephen Leacock
- Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
- Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
- It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
- Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
- It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
- 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.
- 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 requ…
- On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.