41 ordspråk av Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten föddes den 11 april 1908 och dog den 19 februar 1997 - Polish-US humorist
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

Humor

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

[In his authoritative book] The Joys of Yiddish, ... an excellent and praiseworthy housewife.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer

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