Jewish Quotations

"How forceful are honest words! " ~~ Job (Iyov) 6:25

"Even the luckless need some luck." ~~ Shalom Aleichem

"The root of the righteous will never be shaken." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 12:3

"It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them." ~~ Alfred Adler

"Who eats even plain bread and salt with his friend should be grateful to him." ~~ Tanna Deve Eliyahu R.

"Repentance for sinners is like medicine for maladies." ~~ Tachkemoni

"The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it." ~~ Roseanne Barr

"Do not compete just to do evil!" ~~ Psalms/Tehillim 37:8

"Peace is so mighty that, even if a person has performed some good deeds but not made peace, he is deemed to have done naught." ~~ Beth Hamidrash

"Thought serves as a mirror: it shows us the ugliness and the beauty within." ~~ Moses Ibn Ezra

"If a man divorces his first wife, even the altar sheds tears for him." ~~ Talmud, Gittin

"Let not a thousand friends seem too many in your eyes." ~~ Ibn Gabirol