There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten Answers Copy Share Image
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. — Leo Rosten Curiosity Copy Share Image
Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. — Leo Rosten Humility Copy Share Image
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer. — Leo Rosten Bigger Copy Share Image
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. — Leo Rosten Acting Copy Share Image
“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some… — Leo Rosten Inspirational 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
Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of… — Leo Rosten Anguish Copy Share Image
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. — Leo Rosten Business 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 Down and Copy Share Image
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. — Leo Rosten Communication Copy Share Image
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns… — Leo Rosten Absence Copy Share Image
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,… — Leo Rosten Form Copy Share Image
The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted. — Leo Rosten Fellows 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 Writing Copy Share Image
The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which… — Leo Rosten Bagels Copy Share Image
“Tis said that Hitler, disturbed by nightmares, called in a soothsayer. The seer consulted a crystal ball and said, “Ah, mighty Führer,… — Leo Rosten Crystal ball Copy Share Image