"Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify.……" — Leo Rosten
"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."
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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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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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There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.
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More Barbarous Quotes
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
— Annie Besant
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as…
— Amerigo Vespucci
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
— Winston Churchill
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The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am…
— Ruben Dario
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Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of…
— Rodrigue Tremblay
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
— William Shakespeare
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
— T.E. Lawrence
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In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long…
— Henry George
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During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
— Carl Jung
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