-
“Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.”
-
“Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.”
-
“Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.”
Source : "Annie of Tharaw" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.
-
“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”
-
“I love dark humor. I love things that are so grounded in life, but just happen to be just a little bit twisted because my sense of humor is a little bit twisted. I love jokes that shouldn't be funny, but are. Those types of things just really make me laugh.”
-
“The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews.”
Source : "The Dead Sea Scrolls in English". Book by Geza Vermes (Chapter 3 "The History of the Community", p. 49), 1962.
-
“If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?”
-
“I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.”
