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Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
— Bernard Malamud
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
— Oscar Wilde
Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.
— George Soros
Sometimes small things lead to great joys.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.
— Trent Zelazny
There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.
— Erich Segal
Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.
— Barry Neil Kaufman
For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
When the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
— Twyla Tharp
The key to success is not to seek for a particular key to success!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Silence, is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven.
— St. John Climacus
I belong to the tribe of Levi.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon