Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or proverbs:
“How long halt ye between two opinions?”
—Bible: Hebrew Elijah, in 1 Kings, 18:21.
Spoken to the children of Israel.
“The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,—Will it bake bread?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)