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Top 15 Sholem Aleichem Quotes (2025 Update)

Sholem Aleichem Quote: “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

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

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.”

2. “No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.”

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “Barking dogs don’t bite, but they themselves don’t know it.”

3. “Barking dogs don’t bite, but they themselves don’t know it.”

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn’t want to hear in the first place.”

4. “If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn’t want to hear in the first place.”

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “Love is a taste of paradise.”

5. “Love is a taste of paradise.”

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “You see how it is, my dear friends. There’s no pleasing everyone. It’s hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.”

7. “You see how it is, my dear friends. There’s no pleasing everyone. It’s hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.”

— Sholem Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem Quote: “A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.”

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

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.”

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

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “The worm in the radish doesn’t think there is anything sweeter.”

10. “The worm in the radish doesn’t think there is anything sweeter.”

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.”

11. “When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.”

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one’s self, without a companion, and without a single argument.”

12. “A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one’s self, without a companion, and without a single argument.”

— Sholem Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem Quote: “To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.”

13. “To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.”

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.”

14. “I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.”

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Sholem Aleichem Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Sholem Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Sholem Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem Quote: “They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.”

17. “They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.”

— Sholem Aleichem

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