Simeon ben Azzai

"Give your tongue more holiday than your hands or eyes."

"Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend."

"If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two."

"As whole caravans may light their lamps from one candle without exhausting it, so myriads of tribes may gain wisdom from the great Book without impoverishing it."

"Women, like roses, should wear only their own colors, and emit no borrowed perfumes."

"If thou hast fear of those who command thee, spare those who obey thee."