Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories Quotes

“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, Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

“When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.”
― Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

“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

“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

“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.”
― Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

“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

“Once, matches were made behind a child’s back; you came home from shaking hands with your in-laws, you wished the bride or groom a mazel tov, and that was that.”
― Sholom Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

“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

“I only wanted to be good—the trouble is that being good gets you nowhere.”
― Sholom Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

“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

“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

“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

“There were, it appeared, more ways to skin a Katz than one …”
― Sholom Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

“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

“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

“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

“There’s a limit to everything; even chicken soup with kreplach can get to be too much.”
― Sholom Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

“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

“It’s an old Jewish custom to pick up and go elsewhere at the first mention of a pogrom.”
― Sholom Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

“What do I care if the weather is sunny
When I’m all out of luck and all out of money”
― Sholom Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

“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

“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

“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

“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