List of Leo Rosten Quotes

Her Cooking Suggested She Had Attended The Cordon Noir.

The Love Of Money Is The Source Of An Enormous Amount Of Good; The Fact That The Good Is A By-product Of The Selfish Pursuit Of Riches Has Nothing To Do With Its Indisputable Value.

Dogs Are Getting Bigger, According To A Leading Dog Manufacturer.

Hope Is Ambiguous, But Fear Is Precious.

Why Did God Give Me Two Ears And One Mouth? So That I Will Hear More And Talk Less.

Many [of The Americans] Polled Showed A Marked Disapproval Of The Wallonians, Danerians, And Pirenians. The Fact That These Minorities Were Invented By The Pollster Did Not Diminish The Hostility.

For Some Not To Be Martyrs Is Martyrdom Indeed.

Where Was It Ever Promised Us That Life On This Earth Can Ever Be Easy, Free From Conflict And Uncertainty, Devoid Of Anguish And Wonder And Pain? Those Who Seek The Folly Of Unrelieved 'happiness'-who Fear Moods, Who Shun Solitude, Who Do Not Know The Diginity Of Occasional Depression-can Find Bliss Easily Enough: In Tranquilizing Pills, Or In Senility. The Purpose Of Life Is Not To Be Happy.

There Was No Answer, No Solution, No Sop, No Deliverance. What, Then, Did I Do? I Read Faster.

People Say: Idle Curiosity. The One Thing That Curiosity Cannot Be Is Idle.

I Came To Believe It Not True That "the Coward Dies A Thousand Deaths, The Brave Man Only One." I Think It Is The Other Way Around: It Is The Brave Who Die A Thousand Deaths. For It Is Imagination, And Not Just Conscience, Which Doth Make Cowards Of Us All. Those Who Do Not Know Fear Are Not Truly Brave.

The Only Reason For Being A Professional Writer Is That You Can't Help It.