Jewish Proverbs and other quotes

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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


Contemporary Philosophers

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.~ John Glenn

When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes.
When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
~ Desmond Tutu


America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real
but the moon landing was faked.
~ David Letterman


I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. God dammit, I'm a billionaire.
~ Howard Hughes


Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years.
~ Betsy Salkind


The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
~ Jean Kerr


I've been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither would take out the garbage.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor


You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't.
Jeff Foxworthy


When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
~ Prince Philip


A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.
~ Emo Philips.


Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
~ Harrison Ford


The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree.
~ Spike Milligan


Lawyers believe a man is innocent until proven broke.
~ Robin Hall


Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
~ Jean Rostand.



Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger.



We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.
~ WH Auden


In hotel rooms I worry. I can't be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked.
Jonathan Katz


If life were fair, Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead.
~ Johnny Carson


I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we're very sceptical.
~ Warren Tantum ~


Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.
~ Steve Martin


Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.
~ Jimmy Durante



The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone.
~ George Roberts


If God had intended us to fly he would have made it easier to get to the airport.
~ Jonathan Winters



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Some very wise words.

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Some good ones in there!