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Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories QUOTES

Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories QUOTES

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

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

2 " 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. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

3 " I never turn down a drink. Among friend's 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. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

4 " There’s an old saying, you know, that if you scratch a secret, you’ll find a thief. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

5 " we’ll start right in on the knishes, or the kreplach, or the knaidlach, or the varnishkes, or the pirogen, or the blintzes. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

6 " You know what, Pan Sholem Aleichem? Let’s talk about something more cheerful. Have you heard any news of the cholera in Odessa? "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

7 " Well, a matchmaker, as you know, can talk a wall into marrying a hole in the ground; "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

8 " A man is only flesh and blood, after all; you can’t fill a stomach with words. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

9 " Don’t you know that you can skin the bear in the forest, but you can’t sell its hide there? "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

10 " Do you know what my grandmother used to say? What a shame it is we have mouths, because if we didn’t we’d never go hungry "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

11 " You see, I come from Mezritch, though I grew up in Mazapevke, but Vorotolivke is where I’m still registered. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

12 " Then she held out her hands, though all she could say was a single whispered word: “Pa-pa …” Please don’t think any worse of me for having tears in my eyes now. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

13 " In short, he kept waiving me such waivers that I waved goodbye to him and went to see a third lawyer, that’s where I went. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

14 " I only wanted to be good—the trouble is that being good gets you nowhere. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

15 " Where were they coming from? From Zhmerinka, and from Kazatin, and from Razdyelne, and from Popelne, and from a few-other places that were equally famous for their roughnecks. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

16 " It’s no picnic, your Russian grammar; you have to mind your p’s and q’s. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

17 " We had a good scare in our town when they broke out, because we were afraid pogroms would come next. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

18 " There were, it appeared, more ways to skin a Katz than one … "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

19 " I’m only human. A house without a woman is no house …’ It did as much good as last winter’s snow, of course. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

20 " In short, I began getting offers from all over the world: from Kamenets, and from Yelisavet, and from Gomel, and from Lubin, and all the way from Mogilev, and from Berdichev, and Kaminka, and even Brody. "

― Sholom Aleichem , Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories