I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
And once again we plighted our troth, And titter’d, caress’d, kiss’d so dearly.
It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of – another Jew?
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
The sun’s sweet ray is hovering discovered.
I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
God will pardon: That’s His business.
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.
Lo, sleep is good, better is death – in sooth The best of all were never to be born.