47 Quotes by Sholom Aleichem

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

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

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

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

Love is a taste of paradise.

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.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Well, to quote my mother, a worm lies in horseradish and thinks there’s nothing sweeter.

Matchmaking, for example. What could be finer, better, easier, more respectable? What does it take, after all? Nothing but a bit of common sense and enough brains to see who goes with who.