“2649. I will not touch her with a Pair of Tongs.”

“To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man’s eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash”

“If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’
If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’
But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.”

“In her eyes and in her touch I felt the echoes of my words.”

“My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her "You're eleven, make your own!"”

“I touched her thigh
and death smiled”

“She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.”

“(To his 24,000 pairs of students) My (Torah knowledge) and yours are hers”

“If you can touch her heart without touching her, then you can melt her heart just by saying her name.”

“I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.”