"Literature is the safest key to a nation’s treasure. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"If a poor man asks for alms, and you have nothing to give, console him with words; for it is forbidden to chastise a poor man or raise your voice against him, since his heart is broken." ~~ Maimonides
"Who declines to endow a scholar with his worldly goods will see no blessing." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin
"Wisdom is an attribue of age." ~~ Job (Iyov) 12:12
"If you do not sow, how will you harvest?" ~~ Safra
"Old age is the mother of forgetfulness." ~~ Yehuda Ben Tibbon
"To hate Israel is to hate God…To rise against Israel is to rise against God…To help Israel is to help God." ~~ Sifre Num., #84
"A clown may be first in the kingdom of heaven, if he has helped lessen the sadness of human life." ~~ Rabbi Baroka in Talmud
"The begger is hungry and does not know it." ~~ Talmud, Megillah
"Sing, O heaven, be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains!" ~~ Isaiah (Yesha’yahu) 49:13
"Not the cardplayer pays the penalty but only the man who knows not how to play, yet does." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"If a man sees trouble brewing, let him examine his own acts!" ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
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