Sam Levenson (1911–80) was an American humorist, writer, teacher, television host, and journalist. Born Samuel Levenson, he grew up in a large Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. He married Esther Levine and had two children, Conrad and Emily. Conrad graduated from Columbia University and is an architect living in New York and has four children.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Inner-child, Imagination
You can’t start at the top.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Action
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
—Sam Levenson
Love at first sight is easy to understand? It’s when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Love
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Kindness
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Brothers
Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Insanity, Mind
If you want to kill time, try working it to death.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Time Management, Value of Time
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Time, Productivity, Time Management
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.”
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Birthdays
It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Wisdom
It’s a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn’t consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Creation
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and a houseful of books isn’t poor.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Books
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Joy, Happiness
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Freedom
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped
—Sam Levenson
Topics: Pregnancy
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