95 Quotes by Leo Rosten

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

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.

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

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

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

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

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