Sam Levenson Quotations

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.

People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.