Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.

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

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

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.