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What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]
Leo Rosten
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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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Leo Calvin Rosten
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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.
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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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.
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Where there is too much, something is missing.
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The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
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Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
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Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two don't make two moves at one time move up, not down and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
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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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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.
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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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.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.
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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.
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
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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.
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The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.
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