Leo Rosten Quotes

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  • Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

  • Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.

    Leo Calvin Rosten (1972). “Rome wasn't burned in a day: the mischief of language”
  • Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

  • Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

  • I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

    Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”
  • Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

    Leo Calvin Rosten (1989). “Leo Rosten's giant book of laughter”
  • I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

    Life  
    Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”
  • What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

    "The Joys of Yiddish". Book by Leo Rosten, 1968.
  • The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

  • First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

  • Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

    Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”
  • Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

    Leo Calvin Rosten (1959). “The return of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n”
  • For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

    Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”
  • If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

  • You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

    Life  
  • The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

  • Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.

    Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”
  • Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

  • Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

  • It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

  • Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

    Leo Calvin Rosten (1972). “Rome wasn't burned in a day: the mischief of language”
  • I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

  • Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

    Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”
  • Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

  • There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

  • Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

  • A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

    "The Modern Handbook of Humor". Book by Ralph Woods, 1967.
  • The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

  • Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

  • Satire is focused bitterness.

    Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”
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