Jewish Quotations

"What you save from frivolity, add to your charity." ~~ Elijah b. Raphael

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." ~~ Benjamin Disraeli

"The Jewish State is an imperative for the world and therefore will assuredly be established." ~~ Theodore Herzl

"Whithersoever Israel were exiled, the Divine Presence was with them." ~~ Mekhilta

"Do not withhold good where it is due, if it be in your power to bestow it!" ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 3:27

"Punishment of the sinner is not to be treated as revenge. " ~~ Chaim of Valozhin

"Everybody likes a kidder but nobody loans him money. " ~~ Arthur Miller

"Ten enemies cannot do a man the harm that he can do himself." ~~ Yiddish Proverb

"The soul is the Lord’s candle." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 20:27

"A single fool may ask questions which even a thousand Sages cannot answer." ~~ Jacob Emden

"The more charity, the more peace. " ~~ Talmud, Pirke Avot

"Happy are we whose youth shamed not our old age!" ~~ Talmud, Sukkah