I. L. Peretz

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

— I. L. Peretz

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive…

— I. L. Peretz

“No one in our town ever really died, because no one in our town ever lived, or did good or evil. We…

— I. L. Peretz

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

— I. L. Peretz

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

— I. L. Peretz

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different,…

— I. L. Peretz

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions…

— I. L. Peretz

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

— I. L. Peretz

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

— I. L. Peretz

The worst dog gets the best bone.

— I. L. Peretz

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

— I. L. Peretz

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if…

— I. L. Peretz

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

— I. L. Peretz

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might…

— I. L. Peretz

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

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The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain…

— I. L. Peretz

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

— I. L. Peretz

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

— I. L. Peretz

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

— I. L. Peretz

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

— I. L. Peretz

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

— I. L. Peretz

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

— I. L. Peretz

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

— I. L. Peretz

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

— I. L. Peretz

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

— I. L. Peretz