It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Stephen LeacockHumor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
Stephen LeacockPersonally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen LeacockAdvertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen LeacockHow can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.
Stephen Leacock