Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Judah Lazerov, fully Judah Leib Lazerov

Yiddish Rabbi

"Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow."

"By your friends I gauge your wealth; by your enemies, your greatness."

"Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it is harvest time."

"Who looks for a faultless friend will have none."

"Be master of your will and slave to your conscience."

"Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth."