Explore Quotes by Sholom Aleichem

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

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

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

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

Gossip is nature's telephone.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

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

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 things become.

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. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.