20 Quotes by I. L. Peretz

A stranger’s rose is but a thorn.

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

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?

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.

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

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against “might makes right”!