Stephen Leacock: Citations en anglais
"Gertrude the Governess", Nonsense Novels (1911)
The Hohenzollerns in America (1919)
“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”
Insurance up to Date
Literary Lapses (1910)
Preface
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
“My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.”
On leaving England at age seven.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
On achieving fame in Canada.
Source: Three Score and Ten
“It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
When Fellers Go Fishing http://books.google.com/books?id=I-kCAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It+is+to+be+observed+that+angling+is+the+name+given+to+fishing+by+people+who+can't+fish%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage, The Leacock Roundabout, (1945)