LIFE is the biggest bargain you can get.You get it for…

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase…

— Jackie Kennedy

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

— Madeleine Albright

In Yiddish, we say, 'Nisht ahin un nisht aher.' It's neither here, it's neither there. I get more nerves than on anything I do…

— Jeffrey Tambor

On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' I remember that sometime in Season 3, there was a Yiddish phrase, 'Kinahura,' and a friend of mine who was…

— Robert B. Weide

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

— Mike Myers

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land…

— I. L. Peretz

Growing up in California, my best friend was Morris Rabinowitz and we often went to the Yiddish Theater.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

There's not one Yiddish word that is not perfectly funny.

— Randy Rainbow

Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by…

— Amos Oz

There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All…

— S. J. Perelman

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

— Anonymous

“My Grandmother Bella would say in Yiddish, "Gouta Zeh,Gouta Zeh,Let The Other One Be Right!" My Italian friend Nick's Grandmother said,"It is A Better…

— Grandma Bella and Belli

On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking…

— Kirk Douglas

“He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his…

— Michael Chabon