"Here lies a plain and simple Jew who……" — Sholom Aleichem

"Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose."

— Sholom Aleichem

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31 Quotes by Sholom Aleichem

Sholom Aleichem has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for…
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…
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.
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…

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More Jew Quotes

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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left… — Mikhail Bakunin
I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me… — Ellen Barkin
As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not… — Roseanne Barr
I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out. — Roseanne Barr
I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust. — Roseanne Barr
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them,… — Karl Barth
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan
The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where… — Marek Belka
Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God… — Pope Benedict XVI
Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. — Milton Berle

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