Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure. — Leo Rosten Computers Copy Share Image
If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong. — Leo Rosten Figures Copy Share Image
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and… — Leo Rosten Feats Copy Share Image
“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.” — Leo Rosten Inspirational Copy Share Image
For what is it but an exquisite and priceless chance of salvation due to God alone, that the omnipotent should deign to… — Leo Rosten God 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
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten Doe Copy Share Image
“You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they… — Leo Rosten Children Copy Share Image
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps,… — Leo Rosten Different 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 Believe Copy Share Image
“Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. -Leo Rosten” — Leo Rosten Humor 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
Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented… — Leo Rosten Diminish Copy Share Image
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. — Leo Rosten Belief 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
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 is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful. — Leo Rosten Attitude Copy Share Image
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. — Leo Rosten Conservative Copy Share Image
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. — Leo Rosten Most powerful 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 Amount Copy Share Image
“Vun ting more I should say, so de cless shouldn´t fill too bed about Jake Popper. It´s awreddy nine yiss since he… — Leo Rosten Business Before Pleasure Copy Share Image