Jewish Quotations

"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. " ~~ George Burns

"Stand not up against a river in its flood! [Swim with the stream!]" ~~ Achikar

"Friendship is like a treasury: you cannot take from it more than you put into it." ~~ Benjamin Mandelstamm

"Sometimes a woman is happy because she is pretty, sometimes she is pretty because she is happy." ~~ Yochanan Tversky

"Curses curse their utterers. " ~~ Leviticus (Vayikra) R.

"One kingdom comes and another goes, but Israel abices for ever." ~~ Baraitha

"Bear the truth even if it be bitter!" ~~ Mivchar Hapeninim

"Every Jew must either give or take charity for Passover." ~~ Shalom Aleichem

"A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred flailings into a fool." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 17:10

"In a war stay where you are, in famine shift your ground!" ~~ Sifre

"To start a revolution is not hard; to end it well and launch a peaceful economy is beyond our powers. " ~~ Yosef Chaim Brenner

"Help the poor, for you may not know what the day will bring forth, and the wheel revolves!" ~~ N. Amram