Guide To Hebrew

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

All men are Jews, except they don't know it. - Bernard Malamud

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. - Harrison Ford

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it. - Henny Youngman

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs. - Simon Kinberg

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. - Fidel Castro

I'm not a Jew. I'm Jewish. I don't go the whole hog. - Jonathan Miller

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering. - Milton Berle

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle

A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie

The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. - Mordecai Richler

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear. - Menachem Begin

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. - Neils Bohr

Occasionally in life there are moments which cannot be completely explained by words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. - Martin Luther King Jr.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over. - Will Smith

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom. - George Pataki

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal - to do with how we live our lives. - Adrienne Rich

The Lego brick is a universal language. If a kid from China were to meet a kid from Chicago, they don't have to speak the same language but they could build something together. - Richard Stollery

Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures. - Ravi Zacharias

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist. - Daniel Gardner