Jewish Quotations

"Always remember! What’s central to you is peripheral to other people." ~~ Rabbi Wolfe Kelman

"History, far from repeating itself, occasionally produces startling surprises." ~~ Reuven Alcalay

"Who pleads after the verdict pleads nothing. [It’s too late to plead once a sentence is pronounced.] " ~~ Talmud, Bava Metzia

"You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your speech twice." ~~ Ibn Gabirol

"Better is he who gives little to charity—from money honestly earned, than he who gives much—from money acquired by fraud." ~~ Midrash, Kohelet R.

"His name is the very soul of a man. " ~~ Chaim of Valozhin

"Blessed is the son who studies with his father, and blessed is the father who teaches his son." ~~ Talmud

"Wisdom without action is like a tree without fruit." ~~ Yosef Qinchi

"Be on your guard against your friends." ~~ Apocrypha: Ben Sira

"Drop by drop the pitcher fills. " ~~ Numbers (Bamidbar) R.

"Children without childhood are a dark and fearsome spectacle." ~~ Mokher Sefarim Mendele

"A warning to courts: not to hear one litigant before the other comes." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin