First mend yourself, and then mend others.

More Jewish Proverbs

• 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.
• One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers.
• First improve yourself, and then judge others.
• What the daughter does, the mother did.
• Charity is the spice of riches.
• Beware of the person who gives you advice according to his own interests.
• People are like grass in the field: some blossom, some wither.
• I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.