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Most Texans
think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
Richard
Lewis
My father
never lived to see his dream come true of an
all-Yiddish-speaking
Canada. David Stienberg
I once wanted
to become an atheist but I gave up . . . they have
no holidays.
Henny Youngman
The time
is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and skullcap
will
not bar
a man from the White House, unless, of course, the man is
Jewish woman.
Jules Farber
Even if you
are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If
you
live
in Butte, Montana, you are going to be gentile even if you are
Jewish.
Lenny Bruce
God, I know
we are your chosen people, but next time
couldn't
you choose somebody else for a change ?
Shalom Aleichem
The remarkable
thing about my mother is that for thirty years
she served
us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never
been found.
Calvin Trillin
Let me tell
you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us
forty years
into the desert in order to bring us to the only place in
the
Middle East
that has no oil!
Golda Meir
Even a secret
agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.
Peter Malkin
Humility
is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran Lebowitz
My idea of
an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin
Disreali
It's so simple
to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and
then don't
say it. Sam Levenson
Don't be
humble; ...you are not that great.
Golda Meir
God will
pardon me. It's His business.
Heinrich
Heine
I went on
a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in
fourteen
days I had lost exactly two weeks.
Joe E. Lewis
Bankruptcy
is a legal proceeding in which you put your money
in your
pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
Sam Goldwyn
A spoken
contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Sam Goldwyn
Everybody
likes a kidder but nobody loans him money.
Arthur Miller
I have enough
money to last me the rest of my life unless I
buy something.
Jackie Mason
I don't want
to achieve immortality through my work. I want to
achieve
immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
Marriage
is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in
an institution?
Groucho
Marx
Whoever called
it necking was a poor judge of anatomy
Groucho
Marx
A politician
is a man who will double cross that bridge when
he comes
to it.
Oscar Levant
Too bad that
all the people who know how to run this country
are busy
driving taxis and cutting hair.
George Burns
Liberals
feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives
feel they
deserve everything they've stolen.
Mort Sahl
A committee
is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle
I don't want
any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell
me the truth
even if it costs them their jobs.
Sam Goldwyn
Television
is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs
When I bore
people at a party, they think it is their fault.
Henry Kissinger
Saturday
is my traditional day of rest, but if I am forced to
rest on
Sundays too, I won't complain.
If you could
choose.... Look Irish... Dress British... Think Yiddish.
Life is not
fair. Jesus never had the opportunity to become
a Christian.