Famous Pirkei Avot Quotes & Sayings

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best. — Walter Savage Landor

Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt. — Richard N. Bolles

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside. — Jane Hirshfield

Only the insane take themselves seriously. — Max Beerbohm

When you're feeling lonely
and no one is around
Remember to look inside yourself
and a best friend will be found — Stephen Cosgrove

There are many theologians who are not good in the pulpit but are excellent at recognizing the lacks or excesses of those who preach. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer. — Andre Balazs

To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment ... — Joseph Epstein

I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. — Claire Keegan

Think about the animals used in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot into space. Without their death, their pain, without their sacrifice, we would have nothing. — Chuck Palahniuk