Very Famous Quotes ( Archived) (7)

Subject: Jewish proverbs


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

-Old friends, like old wines, don't lose their flavor.
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

-When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador, he said 'If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.'
Albert Einstein

-Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

-The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
Albert Einstein

-You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
Yiddish proverb (Somehow, I doubt that the origin of this is Jewish - Estelle)

-I don't want to become immortal through my work. I want to become immortal through not dying
Woody Allen

-I'm not afraid of dying - I just don't want to be there when it happens!
Woody Allen

-Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton .

-Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Albert Einstein

-We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them
Albert Einstein

-Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school
Albert Einstein

-Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein

hey ft. worth, i noticed a quote from golda mier there....did'nt she have a son named oscar?

great thanks for those

''oops...that doors locked''~~~~george w. bush

''it depends on what your definision of is, is''~~~bill clinton {....only a lawer could come up with that}