Jewish Quotations

"If you return evil for good, evil will not depart from your house. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 17:13

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. " ~~ Sigmund Freud

"By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it. " ~~ George Burns

"Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is unfitting for fools." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 26:1

"There is no mightier weapon than indifference, you will never conquer it." ~~ Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky

"I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception. " ~~ Groucho Marx

"Happy the generation where the big listen to the little!" ~~ Talmud, Rosh Hashana

"Who is the greatest of heroes? He that makes his foe his friend." ~~ Avot Derabbi Nathan

"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." ~~ Psalms (Tehillim) 30:5

"I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains." ~~ Anne Frank

"Who slanders is a fool." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 10:18

"Better that I be a fool all my days than wicked even for an hour before the Lord." ~~ Talmud, Eduyot 5:6