QUOTES COLLECTION
"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less"
- Nicholas Murray Butler
"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx
"I'm sorry I did not answer your letter sooner, but I was so busy not answering letters that I did not get around to not answering yours in time."
- Groucho Marx
"I wish you could Photoshop life."
- Jimmy Kimmel
"A man who doesn't believe in miracles, isn't realistic"
- David Ben-Gurion
"In closing, I apologize for the length of this letter but I didn't have time to write a shorter one"
- Richard T. Sherman
"Being me is a fulltime job & I've never missed a day."
- Stephen Colbert
"The definition of a gaffe in Washington is somebody who tells that truth but shouldn't have."
- Howard Dean
"As the effort, so is the reward"
- Pirkei Avot
"Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning......Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."
- Prof. Morrie Schwartz
"Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail."
- Muriel Strode
"For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was both protest and prayer. Legs are not lips, and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying."
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
"I don't like going to shul because people recognize me. My rabbi said that if I came more often, people wouldn't care so much"
- Alan King
"If you don't hit oil after 18 minutes, stop boring."
- Rabbi Max Artz (on giving sermons)
"It is more difficult to crack a prejudice than an atom."
- Albert Einstein
"Leadership is the *art* of accomplishing more than the *science* of management says is possible."
- Gen. Colin Powell
"One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
- Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice I, iii 93
"The difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know, and I couldn't care less."
- Anonymous
"The inability to hear new revelation, is one of the signs of the death of the soul."
- Yitz Greenberg
"The most incomprehensible thing about our universe is that it can be comprehended."
- Albert Einstein
"There's nothing more practical than a good theory"
- John Dewey
"To love another person is to see the face of God"
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
"Two people talking at once make noise, but two people singing at once make harmony"
- Rav Nahman of Bretzlov
"Where is God? Wherever you let God in."
- Rabbi Nahman of Bretslav
"Where is God? Wherever you put God in."
- Rabbi Neil Gillman
"Where there is a rabbinic will, there is a halakhic way."
- Blu Greenberg
"Where you are that's where I wanna be… And through your eyes, all the things I wanna see. And in the night, you are my dream… You're everything to me. You're the love of my life and the breath in my prayers…take my hand, lead me there. What I need is you here."
- Dave Matthews
A person without a friend
is like a left hand without a right
- Isaac Abrabanel (Nahalat Avot 30b)
The six days of war must receive their ultimate meaning from the seventh day, which is peace and celebration.
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel - Israel: An Echo of Eternity
Advice to Medical Students:
"90% of what you'll see will cure itself... your job is not to botch that up."
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein
"Always be in the habit of speaking pleasantly to all people at all times, and thus you will be saved from anger, a terrible attribute that leads people astray."
- Rabbi Moses ben Nachman, Iggeret Ha-Ramban
"Many people have asked me how I'm feeling. Well, I'll tell you. When I came downstairs this morning, my wife asked me why I had a Band-Aid on my neck? I explained to her that I was thinking about my remarks & cut my face shaving.
Doreen said 'better you should think about shaving & cut your remarks.' "
- David Hermelin
"Days are scrolls:
write on them what you want to be remembered."
- Bahya ibn Pakuda (Hovot Ha-Levavot)
A monk asks a superior if it is permissible to smoke while praying. The superior says certainly not. Next day the monk asks if it is permissible to pray while smoking. That, says the superior, is not merely permissible, it is admirable. The moral of the story is that much depends on how a thing is presented
- George Will
"God suffers when we are in pain"
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
- Mario Andretti
"Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one."
- Mel Brooks
"One time, a member came to my office complaining that a eulogy I had just given was not good enough for the deceased. He told me to give a better eulogy at his funeral. I told him that if he felt so strongly about it, he should write the eulogy himself and I would deliver it when the time came. He replied, 'I can't ... I'm too modest.'"
- Rabbi Irwin Groner
"I participated in an interfaith consultation with a group of Muslims, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews. We heard presentations from the organizers and then split up into faith groups. Tony Campolo presented for the Evangelicals, and introduced his remarks by saying, 'We Evangelicals have a problem. We want you all to accept Jesus.' One of the Imams shouted out, 'And we want you all to accept Islam.' Tony looked at me and said, 'See that? It's only the Jews who want to leave everybody alone. What about it, Rabbi? Do you want to be born again?'
I replied, 'I don't have any problem with being born again, Tony. It's eight days later I'm worried about.' "
- Rabbi Jack Moline
"I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up . . . they have no holidays."
- Henny Youngman
"God, I know we are your chosen people, but next time couldn't you choose somebody else for a change?"
- Shalom Aleichem
"Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the only place in the Middle East that has no oil!"
- Golda Meir
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
- Sam Levenson
"Everybody likes a kidder but nobody loans him money."
- Arthur Miller
"Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution?"
- Groucho Marx
"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
- Milton Berle
"The people I pray with, I can't speak with...(Orthodox)
And the people I can speak with, I can't pray with. (Reform)
- Rabbi Neil Gillman, Conservative Rabbi
"You gotta be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
- Yogi Berra