Who Is Just Carrying Around Gold, Anyway?

Here’s a lovely thought from Leo Rosten’s Treasury of Jewish Quotations.

If you drop gold and books, pick up the books first, then the gold.

Yeah, the books will lead to acquiring more gold in any case.

Of course, the gold could lead to acquiring more books.

I don’t know.

Definitely acquiring more books.

I don’t know about more gold, but…

I think the point is that knowledge is everlasting and money is not.

That’s well said.

What are the favorite expressions that you live by?

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