Jewish Quotations

"There is no place where the Divine Presence is not. " ~~ Exodus (Shmot) R.

"A man’s intelligence is beneath the point of a pen." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra

"When you come to serve God, prepare your soul against temptation." ~~ Ben Sira 2:1

"All swindlers hate and besmirch each other." ~~ Moshe Leib Lilienblum

"Serve the Lord with gladness! " ~~ Psalms (Tehillilm) 100:2

"Fathers are a crown to their sons and sons a crown to their sires. " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) R.

"Who can ask for mercy for his friend, and does not, is a sinner." ~~ Talmud, Berakhot

"There is no man who has not his own pack of troubles." ~~ Shalom Aleichem

"Who suspects the upright will be smitten with bodily ill." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat

"When I die, if the word ‘thong’ appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I’ve screwed up." ~~ Albert Brooks

"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be. " ~~ Golda Meir

"Only the one who eats the dish knows how it tastes." ~~ Midrash Deuteronomy R.