Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes

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

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• My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Thought
  • Learn
  • Rome

• The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Complexity

• According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Live
  • Learn

• Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Door

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Life
  • Challenges

• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

  

  Becky G
  • Life
  • Fans
  • Hunger

• I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Ecstasy

• What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Get
  • Lessons

• You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Life
  • Good
  • Perfect

• It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Good
  • You
  • Week

• Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • She
  • Fashion

• All Heaven is within thee, Man, And all of Hell within thy heart: What thou dost choose and will to have, That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Heaven

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

  

  Stephen Leacock
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Late