"A man without friends is like a left hand without a right." ~~ Ibn Gabirol
"There are four types [of students]: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sifter: The sponge soaks up everything; the funnel takes in at one ear but lets out at the other; the strainer lets pass the wine and retains the lees; and the sifter holds back the coarse flour and collects the fine." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 5:15
"What grows never grows old." ~~ Noah Benshea
"Three things soften a man’s heart: a pleasant melody, a pleasant scene, and a fragrant odor." ~~ Talmud, Berakot 57b
"The simplest and clearest truth is the most difficult of wide acceptance." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"When an orphan smiles, heaven and earth smile with him." ~~ Ladino Proverb
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. " ~~ Albert Einstein
"If all men were fools, there would be no one left to realize it." ~~ Midrash, Temurah
"Like the partridge that gathers a brood she did not hatch is the man that amasses wealth but not of right." ~~ Jeremiah (Yirmeyahu) 17:11
"As the Angel of Death is licensed to destroy, he does not trouble to distinguish between righteous and wicked." ~~ Talmud, Bava Qamma
"It is in no arrogant temper that we claim to be the chosen people. We thereby affirm, not that we are better than others, but that we ought to be better." ~~ Rabbi Max Joseph
"Who is deemed a termagant? The woman that speaks inside her own home yet the neighbors hear her words. " ~~ Ketubot 7:6
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