Read moreAll a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on ‘Jewishness.’
Read moreA good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor – her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn’t quite say.
Read moreA moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
Read moreThe origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: ‘So long as I’m full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?’ The Second Saying: ‘You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.’
Read moreA word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
Read moreProverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.