Sholem Aleichem Quotes & Sayings

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

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter. — Sholem Aleichem

When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes. — Sholem Aleichem

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

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

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

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

And books -- she swallows like dumplings. — Sholem Aleichem

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

Nothing begets friendship so readily as trouble. — Sholem Aleichem

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

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