Jewish Quotations

"When trouble comes into the world, Israel feels it first: when good comes, Israel feels it first, too." ~~ Midrash Lamentations R. 2:3

"Slander is worse than weapons; for weapons hurt from near, slander from afar." ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Pe’ah I:1

"He that is cruel troubles his own flesh. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 11:17

"House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a wise wife is from the Lord." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 19:14

"Even if a lie is crippled, it will run like a champion; yet justice will overtake it at the end." ~~ Shlomo Rubin

"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