Sholom Aleichem Quotes

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• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
• A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
• Gossip is nature's telephone.
• The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
• They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
• When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?
• A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.
• A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
• Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
• Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
• No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.
• You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
• There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought…
• To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is…
• It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords,…
• One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick,…
• Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are…
• Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two…
• Love is a taste of paradise.
• Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

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