A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter.

More Jewish Proverbs

• 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.
• Locks keep out only the honest.
• Don’t pick a wasp out of a cream-jug.
• Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
• In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter.
• He that can’t endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
• Don’t be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don’t be too bitter lest you be spewed out.
• Do not ask questions of fairy tales.
• Worries go down better with soup than without.