"Silence protects wisdom." ~~ Akiba, Sayings of the Fathers 3:19
"Eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart!" ~~ Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) 9:7
"What nation on earth has customs as strange as ours? Our poor demand alms, as if they were collecting a debt, and our benefactors…invite paupers to their table." ~~ Jacob Mendele
"The wisdom of wisdoms is that a man should not be overwise." ~~ Nachman of Bratslav
"The bad teacher’s words fall on his pupils like harsh rain; the good teacher’s, as gently as the dew." ~~ Talmud, Ta’anit 7a
"All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth. " ~~ Alan M. Dershowitz
"If a man and wife are worthy, the Divine Presence is with them; if unworthy, fire consumes them." ~~ Talmud, Sota
"Guard your tongue as you treasure your wealth." ~~ Ibn Gabirol
"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. " ~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The world is like an inn, the world to come like home." ~~ Talmud, Mo’ed Katan 9b
"I have pitched my tent on these ancient hills and my desire is to tie together the ends of the thread that history broke." ~~ Reubin Rubin
"Marriage is the chief cause of divorce." ~~ Groucho Marx
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