What did Stephen Leacock mean by: In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked. - Stephen Leacock Writer · Canada Copy
+ Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stephen Leacock, Food, Squares, 0 - Stephen Leacock Writer · Canada
+ I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, ‘out,’ and meritus, ‘so he ought to be. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stephen Leacock, Latin, Professors, 0 - Stephen Leacock Writer · Canada
+ Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stephen Leacock, Astronomy, Sun, 0 - Stephen Leacock Writer · Canada
+ I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stephen Leacock, Pay, Teacher, 0 - Stephen Leacock Writer · Canada
+ Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stephen Leacock, Girl, Love, Marriage, 0 - Stephen Leacock Writer · Canada
+ Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stephen Leacock, Learn, Too Late, 0 - Stephen Leacock Writer · Canada
+ I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stephen Leacock, Motivational, 0 - Stephen Leacock Writer · Canada
+ In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stephen Leacock, Lying, Statistics, 0 - Stephen Leacock Writer · Canada
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The laws of art are eternal and don’t change at all, as the moral laws don’t change in human beings. - Max Beckmann Painter · Germany
She knew how to trust people… a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. - William Gurnall Clergyman · England
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. Explain - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France