Leo Rosten Famous Quotes
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten Quotations
"Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo It is our own."
Sir Arthur Eddington
"In economics, the majority is always wrong."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger."
Euripides
"Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time."
Mark Twain
"In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody"
Carl Sandburg
"Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt."
Thomas Carlyle
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
"The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way."
Lyndon B Johnson
"Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon."
Robert Green Ingersoll