A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

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.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

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

When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.

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