Jewish Quotations

"Are you for us or for our adversaries? " ~~ Joshua (Yehoshua) 5:13

"Better to dwell in a corner on the roof, than with a quarrelsome woman in a great mansion." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 21:9

"If two ropes are tied together, untying one means untying both. " ~~ Leviticus (Vayikra) R.

"He who seeks good will win forever; but he who aims at the harmful will bring it upon himself." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 11:27

"No shopkeeper gets poor from small profits." ~~ Bim Arbolet Hachayim

"Let your home be a meet-place for the Sages! " ~~ Avot 1:4

"Bring up a child in the way he should go, and, when he is old, he will not depart from it. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 22:6

"Lend a man money when he needs it and pay back a loan yourself in time!" ~~ Ben Sira 29:2

"No one shoe can fit every foot." ~~ Shefatyah Ben Amitai

"A gathering of the wicked is an evil for them and an evil for the world." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin

"The more possessions, the more concern." ~~ Avot 2:7

"History has no time to be just…She keeps her eyes fixed on the victorious, and leaves the vanquished in the shadows." ~~ Stefan Zweig