Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.
Leo Rosten
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
Lexicographer
Linguist
Novelist
Political Scientist
Screenwriter
Writer
Lodz
Leo Calvin Rosten
Information
Pleasure
Correlate
Games
Store
Problem
Stores
Play
Machines
Solve
Certainly
Problems
More quotes by Leo Rosten
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.
Leo Rosten
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
Leo Rosten
If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
Leo Rosten
Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.
Leo Rosten
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.
Leo Rosten
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
Leo Rosten
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
Leo Rosten
Satire is focused bitterness.
Leo Rosten
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
Leo Rosten
The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
Leo Rosten
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.
Leo Rosten
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
Leo Rosten
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Leo Rosten
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.
Leo Rosten
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.
Leo Rosten
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.
Leo Rosten
Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
Leo Rosten
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.
Leo Rosten
