Abraham Polonsky Quotes


"Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?"
- Abraham Polonsky
(Related: America, Columbus, Jungle, Profession, Years)

"Money has no moral opinions."
- Abraham Polonsky
(Related: Money, Opinions)

"If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody."
- Abraham Polonsky
(Related: Day)

"Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?"
- Abraham Polonsky
(Related: Love)

"A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said."
- Abraham Polonsky
(Related: Life, Man, Rest, Trying)

"A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead."
- Abraham Polonsky
(Related: Time, Holiday, Nothing, Now)

"You must never throw away things that are worth good money."
- Abraham Polonsky
(Related: Money, Worth)