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Category: Leo Rosten

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Push, Brains, Hearts

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Extremists think ‘communication’ means agreeing with them.

Think, Extremists, Agreeing

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Communication, Insight

First-rate people hire first-rate people second-rate people hire third-rate people.

People, Hire, First-Rate

I have admired W.C. Fields since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick. Any man who hates dogs and babies can’t be all bad.

quips, comments

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.

adulthood, fairy-tales

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

writing, writing-life

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

gentleness, strength

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can’t be all bad.

animals, children, humor, w-c-fields