More Jewish Proverbs
- 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.
- With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
- The person who only accepts friends without faults will never have any real friends.
- Life is the biggest bargain. We get it for nothing.
- Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand.
- Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.
- Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
- You only hear three voices in this world: the babbling of the stream, Jewish law, and money.
- God is closest to those with broken hearts.