Jewish Proverb Famous Quotes
Truth is the safest lie.
"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers."
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
He who puts up with insult invites injury.
Your friend has a friend don't tell him.
"Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house."
Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
"Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family."
"If you can't go over, you must go under."
"Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out."
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile.
"What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth."
You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
"With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too."
The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
"The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law."
"If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living."
A half-truth is a whole lie.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
"If God lived on earth, people would break his windows."
"He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good."
Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
Jewish Proverb Quotations
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."
Stewart B Johnson
"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort."
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."
Samuel Johnson
"For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain."
Lyster
"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity."
Andre Gide
"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive."
Thomas Arnold Bennett
That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one.
Samuel Johnson
"I wish scientists would come up with a way to make dogs a lot bigger, but with a smaller head. That way, they'd still be good as watchdogs, but they wouldn't eat so much."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."
William Shakespeare
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt