YIDDISH PROVERBS AND OTHER JEWISH WITTICISMS

Thanks to Bob Solomon:

YIDDISH PROVERBS AND OTHER JEWISH WITTICISMS.

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

-The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool
when he speaks.
Yiddish Proverb

-What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Yiddish proverb

-A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he is right.
Yiddish Proverb

-One old friend is better than two new ones.*
Yiddish Proverb

-One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good
enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest
grandchild in the world.
Jewish Proverb

-Old friends, like old wines, don't lose their flavor.*
Jewish Proverb

-A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Yiddish Proverb

-"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

-Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir

-Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction.
Albert Einstein

-Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep
moving.
Albert Einstein

-When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German
Ambassador, he said "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to
see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits." *
Albert Einstein

-Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

-The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
Albert Einstein

-You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
Yiddish proverb

-I don't want to become immortal through my work. I want to become
immortal through not dying
Woody Allen

-I'm not afraid of dying - I just don't want to be there when it happens!
Woody Allen

-Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton

-Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that
can be counted counts
Albert Einstein

-We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used
when we created them
Albert Einstein

-Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he
learned in school
Albert Einstein

-Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm
not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein