I. L. Peretz Quotes

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

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, our teacher is the Exile.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

The worst dog gets the best bone.

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

Time is change transformation evolution.