Don’t be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don’t be too bitter lest you be spewed out.

More Jewish Proverbs

• Truth is the safest lie.
• There is no book that contains absolutely nothing bad, and there is no book that contains absolutely nothing good.
• A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
• 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.
• First mend yourself, and then mend others.
• Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all.
• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
• Pride is the mask of one’s own faults.
• Ideas are something that usually comes like fireman- too late.
• If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists.
• Don’t sell the sun to buy a candle.
• He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment brings him up to be a thief.
• When you open a door, don’t forget to close it. Treat your mouth accordingly.
• Loneliness breaks the spirit.
• Sympathy doesn’t provide food, but it makes hunger more endurable.
• He who prays for his neighbor will be heard for himself.
• Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors.
• Don’t trust someone who tells you all of his troubles and keeps you from all of his joys.
• Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
• Don’t live in a town where there are no doctors.
• God gives burdens also shoulders.
• What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead.
• If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
• When con men meet a legitimately honest man, they are so bewildered that they consider him a greater con man than themselves.
• If you don’t aspire to great things, you won’t attain small things.
• God couldn’t be everywhere, so he created mothers.
• Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.