Top 42 Sholom Aleichem Quotes

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

Sholom Aleichem

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#2. It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

Rick Bragg

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#3. If someone shows promise in a trade, why not give them practical business advice, teach them how to handle money, show them the ways they can start their own business, and help them to become fully trained?

Erin Osborne

Sholom Aleichem Quotes #137294
#4. If you understood him, it would not be God.

Augustine Of Hippo

Sholom Aleichem Quotes #215860
#5. No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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#7. I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game.

David Stern

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

Sholom Aleichem

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#9. Take my word for it, brother, always choose a woman who might kill you, for such a creature will surely entertain you.'
'It's a wonder you're still with us.'
'I am fleet of foot.

Jack Ludlow

Sholom Aleichem Quotes #517500
#10. Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

Norman Jewison

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#11. Gossip is nature's telephone.

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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#13. 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.

Sholom Aleichem

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#14. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sholom Aleichem Quotes #634771
#15. I feel her hips push forward against mine.
And any blood left in my body descends, making me harder than I've ever been in my life.
Weeks of want and frustration are coursing through me. I've brushed with Colgate for far too
long - and it's tasted like shit.

Emma Chase

Sholom Aleichem Quotes #714681
#16. Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

P. J. O'Rourke

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#17. Love is a taste of paradise.

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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#20. 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.

Sholom Aleichem

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#21. 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.

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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#24. Photography allows you to be a part of the action and document stories. It is a perfect extension of my body. I can take it pretty much anywhere and tell a story with a photograph.

Chris Burkard

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

Sholom Aleichem

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#26. A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of pain. However, if you're a person who knows it all, then you've got a lot of heavy-hearted experiences coming your way.

Ron Carpenter Jr.

Sholom Aleichem Quotes #1013310
#27. I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

Sholom Aleichem

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#28. 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.

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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#30. 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.

Sholom Aleichem

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#31. It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

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#32. He hesitated. "Nothing, man. What are you doing right now?"
I looked down. "Petting my snake."
Malcolm laughed. "With anyone else, that would be a metaphor. Good thing I can always count on you.

Diana Peterfreund

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

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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

Sholom Aleichem

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#38. 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.

Sholom Aleichem

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#39. The library was magical because every time I walked through the door, there were literally thousands of voices ready and willing to have a conversation with me. I walked through the door, stared at all those stacks and bindings, and whispered, Tell me a story.

Charles Martin

Sholom Aleichem Quotes #1752406
#40. I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.

Stephen Hawking

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

Sholom Aleichem

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#42. To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: "First comes health. You can always hang yourself later." As

Bel Kaufman

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