"The rich swell up with pride, the poor…" — Sholom Aleichem

"The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger."

— Sholom Aleichem

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31 Quotes by Sholom Aleichem

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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.
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.
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…

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