The Jewish Wisdom Database

Who spreads an evil report of the Land of Israel, even if it be true, is a renegade.

Language is the key to the nation.

Through legend one may penetrate the Jewish nation's living home and behold its inward parts.

All men have the one entrance into life and the one exit.

Literature is the safest key to a nation's treasure.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.

True love is like a man climbing a ladder set upon the earth and its top reaches to heaven.

Busy yourself as much as possible with the study of divine things, not to know them merely, but to do them; and when you close the book, look round you, look within you, to see if your hand can translate into deed something you have learned.

There is no limit to the contents that can be poured into the vessel called man.

One, two, three, four, Marry your girl at the early score! Do not philander, do not delay, Or somebody else will snatch her away!

If there is no truth, there is no mercy.

If you are always afraid of misfortune, you will miss happiness.

Who thinks little will err much.

Who of you can know the heart of a mother with all its secret afflictions?

His name is the very soul of a man.

The night was made that we might ponder on what we did by day.

Who respects the elderly is as if he respects the Lord.

In this world, too, one can taste the joys of Paradise.

If you do not respect your parents, your children will not respect you.

Research into the past, as an aim in itself, without the 'present', is not worth a bean.

Peace without truth is a false one.

Pity is the root of all creation.

One postponement leads to another.

If a man preach in public lessons of the Torah that do not please his hearers, it were better not to preach them.

The philosophy of a nation is to be found in its proverbs at times.