Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Sholom Aleichem
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian writer Sholom Aleichem.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.
Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
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.
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.
No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.
They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.
You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
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 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.
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.
A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.
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.
When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?
No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
Gossip is nature's telephone.
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.
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.
Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.
When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.
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 the Talmud too.
Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.
Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.
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.
To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.
A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.
No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
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.
If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place.
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.
A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.
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