Date of birth: 1869-12-30
Date of death: 1944-03-28
Quotes number: 30
Nationality: Canadian
Profession: Economist
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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.
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
