Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from The Talmud

The Talmud


The Talmud -
- God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.

The Talmud -
- Customs are more powerful than laws.

The Talmud -
- Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.

The Talmud -
- Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.

The Talmud -
- Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

The Talmud -
- Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.

The Talmud -
- He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.

The Talmud -
- Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.

The Talmud -
- He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget.

The Talmud -
- Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

The Talmud - Mishna. Sanhedrin
- Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.

The Talmud -
- Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud -
- For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

The Talmud -
- Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.