Aleichem Sholem Quotes & Sayings

I am often amused when women with little or no experience in housekeeping and/or unaccustomed to performing household chores, upon stumbling on a man almost miraculously become domesticated. — D. Cypriani Regis

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

I'm most certainly not the Beatles. — Julie Bowen

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled. — Jerry Saltz

You don't understand people like me, like us, the other ones. You're like a bird that flies in the air, a fish that swims in the sea. You move, you look about you, you want things. There are others who live on earth and move just a little and don't look
— Iris Murdoch

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends. — Ana Ortiz

What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right. — Michael Meade

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

The differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors. — Hans Reichenbach

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

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

Tell me, if you teach someone the alphabet, how can you stop him from reading? When one has tasted the elixir of love, how can she not thirst for it? Once you have seen yourself through your beloved's eyes, you're not the same person any longer. I was blind all this time, and now that my eyes are open, i'm afraid of light. But i don't want to live like a mole. Not anymore. — Elif Shafak

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

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. — Elizabeth George