Remarkable Quotes of Remarkable Jews: I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying - Woody Allen My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada - David Steinberg Too bad that all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair. - George Burns I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up. They have no holidays. - Henny Youngman Don't be humble; you are not that great.- Golda Meir I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks. - Sam Levenson I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something. - Joe E. Lewis Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call. - Jackie Mason 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 id Jewish. - Richard Lewis Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. - Jules Farber The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Lenny Bruce 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 one place in the Middle East that has no oil! - Calvin Trillin Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother. - Golda Meir Humility is not substitute for a good personality. - Peter Malkin My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. - Fran Lebowitz God will pardon me. It's His business. - Benjamin Disraeli Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors. - Heinrich Heine A spoken contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. - Sam Goldwyn Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution? - Sam Goldwyn A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. - Groucho Marx Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. - Oscar Levant Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. - Mort Sahl I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. - Samuel Goldwyn