Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

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 cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.

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

Gossip is nature's telephone.