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“A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.”

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Sholom Aleichem, born Solomon Rabinovich, was a prominent Jewish author in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known for his humor and satire, his works have been highly appreciated by readers. Aleichem is renowned for his profound insights into Jewish life and his delicate portrayal of human nature. more

“I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.”

“The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.”

Book Seems Would Be Culture Compare Glorious Mutual Quotations Jungle Plagiarism Understatement

Author:James Gleick

“In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.”

Self Feelings Age Life Is Self Love Speech Versions Obsession Worth Living Columnists Life Is Not Worth Living Examined Life Unexamined Life

Author:John Leo

“A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.”

Men May Memories Rooms Draws Sake Profit Epitome

Author:Roger Ascham

“In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.”

Men World Writing Years Book Play Millions Information He Man Paper Noise Papers

Book:Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture

Source: Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture

“The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.”

Men Study Streets Thousand Ears Proverbial

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts don’t stink, and the really smelly ones don’t make a sound." In other words: When you’re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad cliché and a good quotation. My mother’s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often.”

Ifs Want Should Long Real Use Mother Sound Differences Emotion Behinds Air Hot Impact Silent Blow Loud Translate Quotations Tempted Beans Static Fangs Stink Fart Smelly Hot Air

Author:Amy Tan

“The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.”

Wells Whole Form Answers Failing Air Execution Sermons Barrels Pistols Gunpowder

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.”

Ancient Sentences Manners Isolated Regulation Delighted Ancient Wisdom

Book:The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

Source: The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

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