A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

More Jewish Proverbs

• A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
• Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
• The righteous say little and do much.
• If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall.
• No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.
• As he thinks in his heart, so he is.
• It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
• Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.
• Don’t make a fence more expensive or more important than what it is fencing.
• The worst life is better than the best death.
• If there is bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won’t make life sweeter.
• A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.
• In choosing a friend, go up a step.
• Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
• Prepare your proof before you argue.
• If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
• Don’t make toil of pleasure.
• Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
• The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
• Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
• Sympathy is a little medicine to soothe the ache in another’s heart.
• Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile.
• When a habit begins to cost money, it’s called a hobby.
• The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.
• People make plans and God laughs.
• All things grow with time – except grief.
• Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty.