Jewish Quotations

"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

"No learning, no manners; no manners, no learning; no lore, no loaf." ~~ Avot 3:17

"A servant whose master has no control over him cannot be called one. " ~~ Talmud, Kiddushin

"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

"If you see cities uprooted, know that it came about because they did not maintain teachers’ salaries." ~~ Simeon b. Yohai

"If you have no means to give to the poor, comfort him with kind words! " ~~ Leviticus (Vayikra) R.

"If a land has a soul, then Jerusalem is the soul of the Land of Israel." ~~ David Ben-Gurion

"Redemption only comes to our nation bit by bit." ~~ Middrash Tehillim

"Television has raised writing to a new low." ~~ Samuel Goldwyn

"The lust for wealth is only one of the forms of power." ~~ Aaron David Gordon