"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
"A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it." ~~ Israel Zangwill
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. " ~~ Sigmund Freud
"The bachelor has no nest and the benedict no rest." ~~ Reuven Alcalay
"A man that cleanses himself after touching a corpse, and then touches it again, of what avail will his cleaning be? So with a man who fasts for his sins and then repeats them." ~~ Ben Sira 34:25,26
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