Occupation: Author Birth: May 18, 1852 Death: April 3, 1915
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox..
Time is change, transformation, evolution..
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!.
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, ….
[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to ….
Prosperity may be found in small as in big business..
[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanita….
In this world it is very dangerous to be weak..
If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool..
The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds ….
To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth..
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby..
A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it..
Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, th….
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better..
Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty..
Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?.
We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction..
[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!.
The worst dog gets the best bone..
Ugliness is the greatest of all sins..