Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. — Leo Rosten Language Copy Share Image
“Everyone, in some small secret sanctuary of the self, is nuts.” — Leo Rosten Madness Copy Share Image
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. — Leo Rosten Belief Copy Share Image
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. — Leo Rosten Conservative Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.. — Leo Rosten Greater purpose Copy Share Image
You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time;… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful. — Leo Rosten Attitude Copy Share Image
Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure. — Leo Rosten Computers Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be… — Leo Rosten Baby Copy Share Image
I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate… — Leo Rosten Bondage Copy Share Image
“It was at this point, visualizing too vividly another Mr. Kaplan in the class, that anxious little lines had crept around Mr.… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Atheism Copy Share Image
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the… — Leo Rosten Adults Copy Share Image
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to… — Leo Rosten Writer Copy Share Image
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong. — Leo Rosten Failure Copy Share Image
Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. -Leo Rosten” — Leo Rosten Humor Copy Share Image
You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were… — Leo Rosten Children Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the… — Leo Rosten Betterment Copy Share Image
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