The Talmud Quotes Page 3

“Discord is like a leak in a cistern. Drop by drop all the water escapes.”

“Do as much or little as thou canst, only let thy intention be always good.”

“Do not appease thy fellow in his hour of anger; do not comfort him while the dead is still laid out before him; do not question him in the hour of his vow; and do not strive to see him in his hour of misfortune.”

“Do not buy stolen goods.”

“Do not celebrate among the mourners, and do not weep among revelers.”

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”

“Do not reveal thy secret to the apes.”

“Do not trust yourself until the day you die, and do not judge your fellow until you reach his place.”

“Do not worry thyself with the trouble of tomorrow; perhaps thou wilt have no tomorrow, and why shouldst thou trouble thyself about a world that is not thine?”

“Don’t use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.”

“Eat and drink to live; live not to eat and drink, for thus do the beasts.”

“Envy, lust, ambition, bring a man to perdition.”

“Even if it happens that the son is a teacher, yet if the father is present, the son must rise before him in the presence of all his pupils.”

“Ever associate with the good.”

“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.”

“Every union for a divine purpose is destined to last.”

“Every word, whether good or bad, accidental or intentional, is recorded in a book.”

“Examine the contents, not the bottle.”

“First correct thyself, then correct others.”

“First, our passions are like travellers, making a brief stay, then like guests visiting us day by day, until at last they become our masters, holding us beneath their sway.”

“Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.”

“For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.”

“From the very spoon that the carver carved, he has to swallow hot mustard.”

“God causes the remedial herbs to grow up from the ground; they become a healing cause in the hands of the physicians, and from them the druggist prepares the remedies.”

“God looks to the heart of man and then to the mind.”

“God may delay all other punishments, but the sin of perjury is avenged straightway.”

“Good deeds are better than creeds.”

“Good men promise little and perform much. Wicked men promise much and perform nothing.”

“Guard thy mouth from uttering an unseemly word.”

“Guard with jealous care thy neighbor’s honor.”