"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. " ~~ George Burns
"Till you are forty there is profit in eating, from then on drinking prospers." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"Condemn not your fellow until you stand in his place! " ~~ Avot 2:4
"Two things will never mix: a good heart and stinginess." ~~ Mivchar Hapeninim
"Respect an old man who has lost his learning: remember that the fragments of the Tablets broken by Moses were preserved alongside the new." ~~ Talmud: Berakot 8b
"A scholar who abandons study is like ‘a bird that strays from the nest.’" ~~ Talmud, Chagigah
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. " ~~ Albert Einstein
"If you see cities uprooted, know that it came about because they did not maintain teachers’ salaries." ~~ Simeon b. Yohai
"Only if a scholar is like a bed of spices, the perfume reaching others, will his learning be preserved." ~~ Eleazar b. Pedat
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. " ~~ Elie Wiesel
"Not every one with a fabulous memory is clever." ~~ Samuel David Luzzatto
"A pupil receives but a fifth of the reward that accrues to the teacher." ~~ Midrash, Sons of Songs R.
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