"Who is a hero? He that masters his lusts!" ~~ Avot 4:1
"Who mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who rejoices at their calamity will not go unpunished. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 17:5
"Study leads to action." ~~ Talmud, Kiddushin
"It is better to know well than to know much." ~~ Mishle Yehoshua
"Little troubles are really not so bad—for someone else." ~~ Shalom Aleichem
"Ideas are duty-free." ~~ Leopold Zunz
"As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced. " ~~ Alan King
"Nations…borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. " ~~ Abraham Flexner
"The ears are the gateway to the mind." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"In Ne”ilah [the closing prayer] of Yom Kippur, what did he [the Cohen] say? “And Hashem will bless you from Zion and you will see the good of Jerusalem all of the days of your life.” " ~~ Talmud, Sotah 40a
"It is not the believer, but the non-believer, who asks for a miracle and depends on it." ~~ Shmuel Hugo Bergman
"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. " ~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
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