No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you..

This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor….

When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes..

Gossip is nature's telephone..

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful ….

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

Love is a taste of paradise..

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

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, and goes through ….

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

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

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

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

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 worth to be dressed in ….

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

I never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You’ll find that in th….

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

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, pop-g….

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

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 'holes' and 'ban….

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter..