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

If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.

I never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You’ll find that in the Talmud too.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.

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.

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.