Leo Rosten Quotes

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
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Business
The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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Humorous
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
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Character
The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.
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Life
Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
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Conservative
What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?
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Humorous
Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.
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Politics
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