The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.
Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.
I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
China has no income tax, no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.
Better to be happy than wise.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
Love is the only effective counter to death.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.