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Familiar Quotations

Jew

Hey, Wang, what are you takin' pictures for? It's a parking lot! This is a restricted club, so don't tell 'em you're Jewish.–Caddyshack

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.–Benjamin Disraeli

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.–Andrea Dworkin

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.–Albert Einstein

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.–Albert Einstein

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.–Michael J. Fox

Hold most firmly and doubt not that not only all the pagans, but also all Jews, heretics, and schismatics who depart from their present life outside the Catholic Church, are about to go into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.–Saint Fulgentius

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.–Albert Goldman

We decree and order that from now on, and for all time, Christians shall not eat or drink with Jews, nor admit them to feasts, nor cohabit with them, nor bathe with them.–Eugenius IV

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.–Jesse Jackson

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Jew 1
• Jew – "Hebrew" 2
• Greek 2
• Greek – "Grecian" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Jew 4
• Greek 5
• Nonfiction Usage 7
• Script Usage 7
• Spoken Usage 12
• Presidential Usage 12
• Song Title Usage 13
• Bible Usage 13
• Qur'anic Usage 28
• Journalism Usage 29
• Encyclopedic Usage 331
• Lexicographic Usage 528
• Index 648