Jewish Quotations

"Be swift to hear, but patient in making reply!" ~~ Ben Sira 5:11

"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them." ~~ Bernard Baruch

"Where wisdom enters, subtlety accompanies it." ~~ Talmud, Sota 21b

"Who accepts alms he needs not will end by truly needing alms before he leaves this world." ~~ Talmud, Ketubot

"Do not hurry when you leave a place of worship." ~~ Joseph Caro, Shulchan Aruk

"Good sense makes a man slow to anger." ~~ Proverbs 19:11

"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz

"Whose heart is narrow has a broad tongue. " ~~ Mivchar Hapeninim

"Never put yourself in temptation’s path; for even King David could not resist it." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin 107a

"Lord, let me know my end, and what the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am!" ~~ Psalms/Tehillim 39:5

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault. " ~~ Henry Kissinger

"When a sharp sword is at his throat, a man does not listen to sense or logic." ~~ Achad Ha’am