Leo Rosten Quotes

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

If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

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

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Humor is, I think, the sublets 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.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.