Jewish Quotations

"As the generation, so the leader; as the leader, so the generation. " ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Sanhedrin

"Reviewing a lesson a hundred times cannot be compared with reviewing it a hundred and one times." ~~ Hillel

"A miser is a faithful watch-dog, guarding the wealth of his heirs." ~~ Mishle Yehoshua

"Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price." ~~ Moses Ibn Ezra

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married? " ~~ Barbra Streisand

"The language of man is not only a means to express ideas but in itself a creation. " ~~ Yosef Chaim Brenner

"If a man return evil for good, evil will not depart from his home. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 17:13

"The sick man who wants to eat is better than the healthy man who cannot bear food." ~~ Shmuel Hanagid

"The slanderer is like a snake that can only hurt and profits not." ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Peah

"All men should rise when a sage passes." ~~ Talmud, Kiddushin 33a

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. " ~~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Who closes his ears to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard." ~~ Proverbs (Kohelet) 21:13