Stephen Leacock Quotes

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

Very, very rarely do you find bands underpricing.

We are being medically mugged by these laboratories.

Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them.

So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.

I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.

Part of politics is redundancy. You’ve got to say the same thing over and over even if you get tired of it…not everyone has heard it.

We have 17 different intelligence agencies and they are all basic;ly doing the same thing.

Price gouging for drugs that treat cancer in children is simply unconscionable.

I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It's not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message.

I hate to do the same thing twice.

I don't want to do roles in films which I have already done on TV. What is the point of jumping to films and doing the same thing?

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it.

- he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: "Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?"

Twice – Once too often.

If we keep an optimistic view about the future, we definitely have to look for our place. Not to be redundant. And that means we have to emphasize what makes us unique.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.