Sholem Quotes

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

Sholem Aleichem

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

Sholem Aleichem

#3. Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Sholem Asch

#4. I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you say? How can you forget a living human being?

Sholem Aleichem

#5. Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

Sholem Asch

#6. 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.

Sholem Aleichem

#7. Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?

Sholem Asch

#8. Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Sholem Asch

#9. Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Sholem Asch

#10. God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

Sholem Asch

#11. The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Sholem Asch

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

Sholem Aleichem

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

Sholem Aleichem

#14. Personality is the gland of creativity.

Sholem Asch

#15. I never turn down a drink. Among friend's it's always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say but brandy is still brandy. You'll find that in the Talmud too.

Sholem Aleichem

#16. Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

Sholem Asch

#17. I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

Sholem Asch

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

Sholem Aleichem

#19. An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Sholem Asch

#20. Through our soul is our contact with heaven.

Sholem Asch

#21. Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Sholem Asch

#22. The best security for old age: respect your children.

Sholem Asch

#23. The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Sholem Asch

#24. There is nothing in the world, I tell you, so maddening as a person who doesn't answer when you abuse him. You shout and you scold, you are ready to burst a gut, and he stands there and smiles ...

Sholem Aleichem

#25. Nothing begets friendship so readily as trouble.

Sholem Aleichem

#26. 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.

Sholem Aleichem

#27. Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Sholem Asch

#28. And books -- she swallows like dumplings.

Sholem Aleichem

#29. If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

Sholem Asch

#30. The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Sholem Asch