Golda Meir Quotes about Funny

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Golda Meir

Funny, Humorous, Israel

Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

Golda Meir

Funny, Humorous, Oil

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Golda Meir

Funny, Humorous, Oil

Speech at state dinner forWilly Brandt, Jerusalem, 10 June 1973

One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.

Golda Meir

Funny, Humorous, Mean