'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.