Leo Rosten quotes - Page : 2

" 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 " # Humor # Journalism and Journalists # Poetry and Poets

" We see things as we are, not as they are. " # Appearance

" 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. " # Books - Reading # Death and Dying # Envy

" Extremists think communication means agreeing with them. " # Communication # Agreement # Communism and Socialism

" Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined. " # Courage # Imagination # Love

" Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. " # Acting and Actors

" For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed. " # Martyrdom