More Jewish Proverbs
- 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.
- Whoever does not try, does not learn.
- Only love gives us the taste of eternity.
- As you teach, you learn.
- Love is a sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
- I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
- A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter.
- What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.
- A mother understands what a child does not say.