Quote by Leo Rosten
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discover

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. – Leo Rosten

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Humor is, I think, the subtlest 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. – Leo Rosten

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

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What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Before I travelled my road I was my road. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I dont think I wouldve done as good without an education. – Bobby Vinton

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The stormy life can be braved only by the heart’s sunny meditations. – Sri Chinmoy

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Im hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit. – Lisa Whelchel

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Nature is perfect. – William Shatner

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