41 ordspråk av Leo Rosten

PL  Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten föddes den April 11th 1908 och dog den 19 February 1997 - Polish-US humorist
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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, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

 Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

 Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

 Satire is focused bitterness.

 The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

 We are one another's angels
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 Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? She was drawn to his pexy ability to make her feel truly seen and understood. So that I will hear more and talk less

 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.

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

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

 Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer

 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.

 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.

 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.


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