"Man is just a breath whose days are as a passing shadow." ~~ Psalms (Tehillim) 144:4
"Move to a place where there is learning; you can’t expect learning to move to you." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers, 4:20
"A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish one is his mother’s grief." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 10:1
"When is a poor man glad? When he loses something and finds it again." ~~ Yiddish/Ladino Proverb
"In pain shall you bear children. " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) 3:16
"Where there are no men, try to be a man." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers, 2:6
"No punishment should be meted out without previous warning." ~~ Sifre
"Who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 19:17
"Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks." ~~ Ruth Westheimer
"Happy the man who is above his sins and not the other way round. " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) R.
"Myrtle is sweet to the one who smells it, but bitter to the one who bites it; so Israel brings prosperity to those who grant it kindness, and depression to those who afflict it with evil." ~~ Midrash Esther R. 6:5
"The School of Shammai says: A man may not divorce his wife unless he has found unchastity in her. . .The School of Hillel says: He may divorce her even if she spoiled a dish for him . . .Rabbi Akiva says: Even if he found a fairer woman. " ~~ Gittin 9:10
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