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.

He was a teacher and academic but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting storywriting journalism and Yiddish lexicography. Ross)
Mechanized Patrolling (1943) (as Leonard Q. It was followed by O K*A*P*L*A*N! My K*A*P*L*A*N! (1976) a reworking of the two 1930s collections and Hooray for Yiddish! (1982) a humorous lexicon of the American language as influenced by Jewish culture.

He was a teacher and academic but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting storywriting journalism and Yiddish lexicography. Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11 1908 – February 19 1997) was born in Łódź Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York City.