Quotes from Stephen Butler Leacock

Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it - and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape That's retirement.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes, clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.

The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.