Quotes from Harry Kemelman

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.

Life after death means for us that part of our life that lives on in our children, in the influence that survives us after death, and the memories people have of us.

Faptul ca un om a avut parte de o pregatire stiintifica nu inseamna neaparat ca el urmeaza sa aiba un comportament stiintific tot timpul.

Our people have only the one chance. Our good deeds must be done on this earth in this life. And since there is no one to share the burden with them or to intercede for them they must do it on their own.

E,in zilele noastre un om de afaceri are tensiune cu carul, mai cu seama intr-un comert cu medicamente cu bucata, cind n-ai cum sa stii,dimineata, la deschidere,daca vreun ticnit de hippy n-o sa dea peste tine si n-o sa-ti arda un glont.

An applicant for a job who disagrees with his prospective employer is either a fool or he has convictions, and there was nothing to suggest to me that your husband was a fool.

Marks usually reward the most docile students, those who conform to their teachers' opinions. There's nothing competitive about learning, it's something everyone does for himself alone.

Stresul implicat in lupta ia totdeauna sfirsit cind te predai.

Mai bine interesat de religie decit de chestiile in care,pe timpurile astea , se vira tineretul.

Bohemian and long on ideals, especially where the necessity of living up to them was someone else's.

suppose he were to donate a laboratory to Brandeis or even to Harvard? The

for me to ask for a raise is—is demeaning.

We Yankees don't like anybody, including each other, but we tolerate everybody." Even

And what law, anywhere, has ever affected everyone exactly the same? There are always exceptional cases which are unfair to the individual. But society tolerates them because a perfect law is impossible and life without law is unthinkable.

Our people have only the one chance. Our good deeds must be done on this earth in this life. And since there is no one to share the burden with them or to intercede

But cynicism is only disappointed idealism.

Those are Christians that are being slaughtered, and nobody in the Christian world lifts a finger or even protests, not the Pope, not your World Council of Churches, not the Christian countries. Only the damn Jews. It's downright embarrassing. No wonder that no one supports them in the UN. That's the point I was making. They make everybody uncomfortable, so everybody votes against them.

You know, we have a saying that other people boast of the beauty of their women; we boast of our old men.

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. And in the long run, it's better to please God—He's more apt to remember.

Instead of going back to teaching, she began to do housework because it paid more.

Without meaning to, you usually end up with a board made up of the richer members of the congregation.

To most of us, it was merely a matter of form. We would have voted the contract right then and there.