I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
Stephen LeacockI detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen LeacockThere is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.
Stephen LeacockIn earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.
Stephen Leacock