Stephen Leacock
  • Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

  • Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

  • It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

  • Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

  • Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.