This and That Quotes

“Without love, the art of love is mere acrobatics. Without love, the art of giving is mere etiquette.”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“I don’t lose time playing verbal games, trying to remember what I forgot. “I don’t remember your name,” says one octogenarian to another. “Tell me what it is.” The second one pauses: “How soon do you have to know?” he asks.”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: “First comes health. You can always hang yourself later.” As”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“The Bible says, “A soft answer turneth away wrath.”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“Appreciation is appreciated.”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“Recently at a party I saw a man rise from his seat each time a woman entered the room. I smiled my encouragement: “You were well brought up,” I said. “No,” he replied, “I learned by myself.”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the eighteenth-century letter writer and biographer wrote: “Civility costs nothing and buys everything.”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“hopeless optimism.”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“Each country has its own manner of telephoning. The Russians, at least, are honest. They say, “It is Ivan Ivanovich who is bothering you.” The”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: “It’s better than nothing.” As”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“In one of Chekhov’s short stories, a little boy is drawing a picture. His father asks him why the man in the picture is taller than the house. “If he were smaller,” says the child reasonably, “you couldn’t see his eyes.” ENTRY:”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“As a former student put it: “In a liberry it’s hard to avoid reading.” When”
― Bel Kaufman, This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections