Jewish Proverbs, Most Direct Quotes
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Proverb
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks .
Yiddish Proverb
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Yiddish proverb
A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he is right.
Yiddish Proverb
One old friend is better than two new ones.
Yiddish Proverb
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. Jewish Proverb
A wise man hears one word and understands two. Yiddish Proverb
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein
You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
Yiddish proverb
I don't want to become immortal through my work. I want to become
Immortal through not dying.
Woody Allen
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton .
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study in that morning's newspaper which indicate
that men use on the average only 15,000 words a day, whereas women use 30,000 words a day.
She thought about this for a while and then told her husband that the reason women use twice as many words as men is because they have to repeat everything they say.
He looked up from his paper and said, "What?"
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