Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.

More Jewish Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Taxes grow without rain.
• Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator’s will.
• 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 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.
• The righteous say little and do much.
• If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall.
• No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.