"Why did God give me two ears and……" — Leo Rosten
"Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less."
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51 Quotes by Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten has 51 quotes on this site.
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We see things as we are, not as they are.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter..
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly…
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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness,…
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You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if…
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Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from…
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Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty,…
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Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
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The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a…
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at…
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High thoughts must have high language.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
— Francis Bacon
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through…
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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