Authors
People
Topics
Proverbs
Wishes
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
More Yiddish Proverbs
Who talks a lot, talks about himself.
Small children won’t let you sleep, bigger children won’t let you live.
You reproach your daughter, but you mean your daughter-in-law.
When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double.
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
You can’t make cheesecakes out of snow.
What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.
Don’t be scared when you have no other choice.
It’s good to hope, it’s the waiting that spoils it.
She who wants to marry her stepfather regrets it in bed.
You find everything when you are spring cleaning.
With time even a bear can learn to dance.
Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it’s harvest time.
Women can keep only one secret – their own.
You do not fall because you are weak; you fall because you think you are strong.
He who is aware of his folly is wise.
God created a world full of little worlds.
Better a Jew without a beard than a beard without a Jew.
Lost years are worse than lost dollars.
Better ask ten times than go astray once.
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.
Better ten times ill than one time dead.
The pen wounds deeper than an arrow.
When Dame Fortune calls, offer her a chair.
Time is the best doctor.
Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes