Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.
Quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1979) compiled by Laurence J. Peter.
What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?
Riddle presented in The Joys of Yiddish - 1968 The answer: "A Herring" - because you can paint it green, nail it to the wall - and the whistling part is added just to make the riddle hard. Rosten did not claim to be the author of this riddle, but he popularized it.
Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
Quoted in The Modern Handbook of Humor - 1967 by Ralph Louis Woods Variants: A conservative is someone who admires radicals a century after they're dead. A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Captain Newman, M. D - 1962. This is also sometimes attributed to Leo Buscaglia, who often quoted it in his addresses and in his book Living, Loving and Learning - 1982.
A common misconception is to attribute the final part of this quote to W.C. Fields himself, it was actually first said about him by Rosten during a "roast" of Fields at the Masquer's Club in Hollywood in 1939, as Rosten explains in his book, The Power of Positive Nonsense - 1977.
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