Famous quotes containing the words american, orthodox and/or rabbi:
“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
You may get a bland smile from these sages;
But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)