Sholom Aleichem Quotes

#1. When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

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#2. No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

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

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

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#5. Gossip is nature's telephone.

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

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#7. When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you ... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

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#8. Love is a taste of paradise.

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

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

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#11. 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 the village in search of business.

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#12. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#17. 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 new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.

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#18. To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

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#19. 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-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

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

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

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

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

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

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#25. Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

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

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