Sholom Aleichem Quotes

If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.

If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place.

Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.

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

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

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

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.

Love is a taste of paradise.

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?