The Jewish Wisdom Database

When you teach your son Torah, teach it from a proof-read book!

Make books your friends!

Books are meant not to be shelved, but to be studied.

Our Holy Scriptures are not only a religious book, but the foundation of our literature, our language and our history, and the sole source of them.

Books were written not for fools but for the wise.

Never refuse to lend books to a man who has not the money to buy them for himself- - -if you are sure he will return them!

Books are pouches of wisdom embroidered with pearly words.

If people knew the troubles that authors experience, they would not laugh on finding some little error in their books.

What is written lasts for ever.

Spend your money on expensive books and you will get their worth in golden knowledge.

No artistan without tools, nor any scholar without books.

There is no book that has not something bad in it, none that has not something good.

A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding.

A book without a preface is like a body without a soul.

A good book is like a beautiful garden which you can carry in your hand.

If you change the language, you change the content.

Where can you find a better place to spend the dangerous age than in literature?

A people's only national literature is the one written in its national language.

The best of poems is that which men of intelligence are content with and the people understand.

When the kingdom of words ends, the kingdom of silence begins.

It is easiser, perhaps, to do good deeds than tell good stories.

The shoe according to the foot and the style according to the contents.

Even the best translation cannot render fully the exact meaning of the text.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Words should be weighed, not counted.