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Isaac Leib Peretz
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“A stranger's rose is but a thorn.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who tells the truth needs no fancy phrases.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yohanan Melameds Maaselach, 1904. Alle Verk, vi. 181.
“Time is change, transformation, evolution. Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. Alle Verk, xiii. 9.
“Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: All for a Pinch of Snuff, c. 1910. Quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 64.
“The voice is on the borderline between the physical and the spiritual.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.
“Man has been likened to an earthen pot.... You have but to tap the pot with your finger. If it rings back full and true, all is well; there is your perfect pot. And if not—man, alas, has been likened to a broken potsherd.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mesiras Nefesh, c. 1910. Alle Verk, vii. 142. M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 22.
“In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shreib a Feleton, 1895. Alle Verk, xii. 77.
“If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sholom Bayis, 1889. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 153.
“I am a rainworm, buried deep Among the oozing, slimy things, Yet of an eagle's nest I dream, And eagle's wings.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Am a Rainworm", 1900, translated by J. Robbins, (J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 83).
“Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manginot HaZman". HaAsif, 1886, p. 729f.