One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

More Jewish Proverbs

• What one has, one doesn’t want, and what one wants, one doesn’t have.
• When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed.
• As you do, so will be done to you.
• Do not meet troubles half-way.
• Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds.
• Even the most expensive clock still shows sixty minutes in every hour.
• A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
• The poor fool is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
• Taxes grow without rain.
• Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator’s will.
• He who has no hand cannot clench his fist.
• If you can’t go over, you must go under.
• The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
• What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
• When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.
• First learn, and then form opinions.
• A person worries about the past, distresses about the present, and fears the future.
• Teach your tongue to say “I don’t know” instead of to make up something.
• Where two Jews, three opinions.
• A half-truth is a whole lie.
• Hospitality is one form of worship.
• Not to have felt pain is not to have been human.
• Never kiss an ugly girl; she will tell everyone.
• The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.
• 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.