I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo RostenThe fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
Leo RostenIn 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.
Leo Rosten