Famous quotes containing the words hebrew proverbs, hebrew and/or proverbs:
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:18.
President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Quoted in Theodore C. Sorenson, Kennedy, epilogue (1965)
“If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.”
—Bible: Hebrew Samson, in Judges, 14:18.
To the men who had answered his riddle, “Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.”
“He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 28:23.