Previous Quote

Stephen Leacock Quotes

Next Quote

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock
Copy LinkCopy Link
Copy QuoteCopy Quote

About The Quote

Related Authors

Related Topics

More Quotes From Stephen Leacock

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.
Stephen Leacock
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.
Stephen Leacock
It may be that those who do most dream most.
Stephen Leacock
A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
Stephen Leacock
A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen Leacock
A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock
Report Quote Report Quote Report Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote