Proverbs

• 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
• Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
  -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
• 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: 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