Jewish Quotations

"Sometimes work can change your luck. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik

"Good men are hard to provoke and easy to calm." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers, 4:21

"Do what you have promised! " ~~ Numbers (Bamidbar) 32:24

"Be grateful to your parents; had they not been tempted, you wouldn’t be here." ~~ Talmud, Abodah Zorah 5a

"For him that talks obscenely hell will be deepened. " ~~ Talmud, Shabbat

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. " ~~ Albert Einstein

"I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice." ~~ Hosea (Hoshaya) 6:6

"Cursed be he that causes a blind man to stray! " ~~ Deuteronomy (Devarim) 27:18

"To hold the rope at both ends… [Playing both ends against the middle] " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) R.

"Wretched the creatures that see and know not what they see." ~~ Talmud, Chagigah

"You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. " ~~ George Burns

"Better an hour of repentance and good deeds in this world than a lifetime in the world to come." ~~ Avot 4:17