Jewish Quotations

"If there is one thing superior to life, it is health." ~~ Iggeret Hamusar

"Despise not your mother, when she is old!" ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 23:22

"Little children won’t let you sleep; big children won’t let you live." ~~ Talmud, Nedarim

"It is all for the best." ~~ Talmud, Ta’anit

"For there is not a righteous man upon the earth, that does good and sins not." ~~ Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) 7:15

"A man should not say, “I will love the learned and hate the unlearned”; he should say, “I will love them all.”" ~~ Avot Derabbi Nathan, 16

"If you do not suffer the toil of study, you will suffer the toil of ignorance." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra

"He gives twice who gives quickly." ~~ Leon of Modena

"Until my creation I was unworthy and, now that I have been created, it is as though I still exist not." ~~ Talmud, Berakhot

"Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." ~~ Traditional Proverb

"There is a long way that is short and a short one that is long." ~~ Talmud, Eiruvin

"A woman recognizes the character of a guest sooner than her husband does." ~~ Talmud, Berakot 10