Love is a taste of paradise.

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

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

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.

Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

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