Top 78 Ephraim Quotes

#1. Asshole," Ephraim muttered as he turned back around.
Chris chuckeled. "Is that really any way to talk to your favorite child?"
"You're not my favorite," Ephraim argued, but they both knew that was bullshit. "I don't have any favorites."
"Puhlease," Chris said. "You fucking adore me ...

R.L. Mathewson

Ephraim Quotes #193750
#2. When it became known to the house of David c that Aram had occupied Ephraim, d the heart of Ahaz A and the hearts of his people trembled like trees of a forest shaking in the wind.

Anonymous

Ephraim Quotes #579287
#3. {9:16} Ephraim has been struck; their root has been dried out: by no means will they yield fruit. And even if they should conceive, I will execute the most beloved of their womb.

The Biblescript

Ephraim Quotes #606294
#4. He smiled proudly at the machine Ephraim was staring at. "That's our Coheron Drive. Isn't she beautiful? I helped build her."
Ephraim glanced at the coin in his hand. Zoe patted his shoulder comfortingly. "Don't worry. Size doesn't matter in quantum mechanics," she said. "It's how you use it.

E.C. Myers

Ephraim Quotes #789913
#5. Calm down, Ephraim. You seem really certain of what's possible and what's impossible, for a guy who's trying to convince me he has a magic wishing coin.

E.C. Myers

Ephraim Quotes #1774318
#6. Ephraim found a stack of postcards tied together with a faded green ribbon. He shuffled through them and found they were from every World's Fair from 1915 in San Francisco to 1939 in New York. None of the postcards hed been written on or mailed.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Ephraim Quotes #142369
#7. The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1393814
#8. The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #953416
#9. The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1367070
#10. Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1361190
#11. It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1343796
#12. 'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Quotes #1289526
#13. The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.

Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Quotes #1268825
#14. The comments by the Leader of the Labour Party [Jeremy Corbyn] at the launch, however they were intended, are themselves offensive, and rather than rebuilding trust among the Jewish community, are likely to cause even greater concern.

Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Quotes #1234119
#15. With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1204080
#16. For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1185309
#17. Smile. Be open and welcoming.

Ephraim Buchwald

Ephraim Quotes #1144369
#18. I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1137978
#19. Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1098300
#20. If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1066986
#21. Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1012815
#22. Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #964281
#23. The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #962968
#24. Any source of truth or wisdom is a welcome one.

Matia Ben Ephraim

Ephraim Quotes #1838028
#25. It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1660421
#26. The rabbis will find in me personally someone who cares about their future and welfare.

Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Quotes #1826069
#27. I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.

Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Quotes #1760916
#28. Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1750858
#29. Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1732691
#30. A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1694631
#31. They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1687017
#32. There is no honour in battle, Dogalas. Men killing men.....no honour. Honour is doing a noble deed and living to tell about it." He glanced over at him. "Remember that.

Matia Ben Ephraim

Ephraim Quotes #1674867
#33. What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1667688
#34. To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1409377
#35. If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1651122
#36. But how many moments are already past!
Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1607575
#37. Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1573030
#38. For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1551415
#39. One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1481581
#40. When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1478055
#41. It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1461159
#42. The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #1453357
#43. My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.

Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Quotes #175382
#44. We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #465028
#45. Pure truth is for God alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #426813
#46. Have you ever trained a girl to become a semizard?"
"In all my years here?" He shook his auburn-tailed head slightly. "No."
"Can't women use magic?"
Smiling faintly that he had caught onto that, the wizard replied, "They already do.

Matia Ben Ephraim

Ephraim Quotes #426367
#47. The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #419223
#48. Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #350361
#49. The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #245461
#50. The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #231538
#51. Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #202544
#52. A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #478485
#53. It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #159236
#54. It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving," he explained, "and every man may take comfort from the fine saying that the search for truth is more precious than its possession."70

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #154304
#55. Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #141538
#56. He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #136723
#57. Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.

Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Quotes #50210
#58. A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #40111
#59. The Bible, however, does present a single picture, complex though it is, of at least one human life: the "image of God" that is granted in the creation of Adam and then presented as the created divine power itself, the Son of God, Jesus the Christ.

Ephraim Radner

Ephraim Quotes #37994
#60. Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #11044
#61. It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #681149
#62. Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #924790
#63. The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #909626
#64. The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #902525
#65. I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #894438
#66. I did not choose my family. Fate chose me.

Joseph Ephraim

Ephraim Quotes #875773
#67. Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #805087
#68. Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #796310
#69. The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #734073
#70. Full and unhesitating implementation of the report's findings must now follow. I call upon the Labour Party to guarantee that there will be zero tolerance of antisemitism.

Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Quotes #936348
#71. To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #670333
#72. A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #634902
#73. Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #631765
#74. Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #619795
#75. Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #601020
#76. How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #569875
#77. Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #495981
#78. What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ephraim Quotes #485392

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