Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten
Leo Calvin Rostenwas an American humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth11 April 1908
CountryUnited States of America
advice trouble
When in trouble, mumble.
business people firsts
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
addresses paint gettysburg
If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.
dog bigger
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
money selfish riches
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.
future unexpected prepared
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
children men people
You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.
book dark night
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.
mean writing self
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
time laughter thinking
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.
mean self noble
Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.
pain differences purpose
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? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
book reading answers
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.
laughing luck may
The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.