Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile.

More Jewish Proverbs

• 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.
• Let your ears hear what your mouth says.
• Because you have drowned others, you were drowned, and in the end, those who drowned you will be drowned.
• Your friend has a friend, and your friend’s friend has another friend – so know when to keep quiet.
• You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.
• Don’t look for more honor than your learning merits.
• A slave shows his true character, not while he is enslaved but when he becomes a master.
• Anyone who teases you loves you.