Quotes by Yiddish Proverb

“God created a world full of little worlds”

“Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.”

“If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything”

“If you ever need a helping hand youll find one at the end of your arm”

“Dont be too sweet lest you be eaten up; dont be too bitter lest you be spewed out”

“Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant”

“Better ask ten times than go astray once”

“Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains”

“A childs tear rends the heavens”

“The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.”

“His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.”

“The point I wish to make is this: [President William] McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, “Where is he at?” By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze & the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing—“Carry a message to Garcia!””

“Hark to the whimper of the seagull. / He weeps because hes not an ea-gull. / Suppose you were, you silly seagull. / Could you explain it to your she-gull?”

“From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.”

“I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.”

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.