Stephen Leacock: Man

Stephen Leacock was writer and economist. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.”

Stephen Leacock

My Discovery of the West (1937)j

“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?”

Stephen Leacock Literary Lapses

How to Make a Million Dollars
Literary Lapses (1910)

“Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.”

Stephen Leacock

On achieving fame in Canada.
Source: Three Score and Ten