Love is a taste of paradise.
A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.
To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.
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.
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.
You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.