I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. - Leo Rosten

​It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Long, long before Freud, the Jews had this saying: “When a son gets married, he divorces his mother.

Lendler has come down through the decades to enjoy a place of its own in the distinctive argot of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. When you rented rooms from a lendler, you became his tenor. Singing had nothing to do with it.

Two shlemiels were drinking tea. In time, one looked up and announced portentously: “Life! What is it? Life — is like a fountain!” The other pondered for a few minutes, then asked, “Why?” The first thought and thought, then sighed. “So okay: life isn’t like a fountain.