Jewish Quotations

"If there is one thing superior to life, it is health." ~~ Iggeret Hamusar

"A house where one lives against one’s will is no house." ~~ Talmud, Pesachim

"Despise not your mother, when she is old!" ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 23:22

"Little children won’t let you sleep; big children won’t let you live." ~~ Talmud, Nedarim

"It is all for the best." ~~ Talmud, Ta’anit

"Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. " ~~ Oscar Levant

"For there is not a righteous man upon the earth, that does good and sins not." ~~ Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) 7:15

"A man should not say, “I will love the learned and hate the unlearned”; he should say, “I will love them all.”" ~~ Avot Derabbi Nathan, 16

"If you do not suffer the toil of study, you will suffer the toil of ignorance." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra

"He gives twice who gives quickly." ~~ Leon of Modena

"Until my creation I was unworthy and, now that I have been created, it is as though I still exist not." ~~ Talmud, Berakhot

"Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." ~~ Traditional Proverb