"You can stop a quarrel before it starts!" ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin
"Consider your words before you utter them!" ~~ Derekh Eretz Zuta
"I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better." ~~ Sophie Tucker
"My days are like a passing shadow and I wither away like the grass." ~~ Psalms (Tehillim) 102:12
"A man may learn for seventy years and at the end die a fool." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"Answer the first point first and the last point last." ~~ Avot 1:5
"The wise do not rest either in this world or in the world to come [for they always strive for greater wisdom]." ~~ [adapted from] Talmud, Berakot 64a
"Some men are stupid: they stand up to honor a Holy Scroll, but do not rise to honor a sage." ~~ Talmud Makkot 22b
"If you talk too much, you talk nonsense." ~~ Maamar Mordecai
"Pity is a great and strong foundation for improvement of character." ~~ Shmuel David Luzzatto
"A little bitterness will spoil a lot of honey." ~~ Leon of Modena
"It is not the mouse but the hole that’s the thief." ~~ Talmud, Gittin 45a
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