34 ordspråk av Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten föddes den April 11th 1908 och dog den 19 February 1997 - Polish-US humorist
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 I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. |
| I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe |
| I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet! |
| If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it |
| 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. |
| Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. |
| The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. |
| 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. |
| Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. |
| We are one another's angels |
| We see things as we are, not as they are. |
| Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less |
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