Leo Calvin Rosten quotes and words of wisdom

"Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they"re dead."
Found in the topic Conservative.

"Courage is the capacity to confirm what you can be imagined ..."
Found in the topic Courage.

"Any man that hates dogs and babies can"t be all bad."
Found in the topic Hate.

"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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it."
Found in the topic Enjoyment.

"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can"t help it."
Found in the topic Writing.

Interesting Quotes

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald - US novelist (1896 - 1940)

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)