“What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.”

“Worries go down better with soup than without.”

“When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.”

“Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.”

“The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.”

“The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.”

“To Your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday come and gone, no more than a watch in the night.You sweep men away like a dream, like grass which springs up in the morning.In the morning it sprin...”

“You couldn't find a Jewish sheik?”

“I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily to me, not just the present and the future, but even the past, that thing that each ma...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.”

“Haste is from the Devil.”

“The candle burned the moth:But soon it will vanish in its own fat.”