Jewish Quotations

"I wish we could feel what we understand and understand what we feel." ~~ Shim’oni

"The ignorant think less clearly as they grow older; scholars think more clearly as they age." ~~ Talmud, Kinnin

"You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin. " ~~ Leviticus (Vayikra) 19:36

"A vow annulled in part is annulled in whole." ~~ Talmud, Nedarim

"Consider your words before you utter them!" ~~ Derekh Eretz Zuta

"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

"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