Hospitality is one form of worship.

More Jewish Proverbs

• 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.
• 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 bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
• Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
• 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.
• As he thinks in his heart, so he is.
• It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
• Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.
• Don’t make a fence more expensive or more important than what it is fencing.
• The worst life is better than the best death.
• If there is bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won’t make life sweeter.
• A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.
• In choosing a friend, go up a step.
• Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
• Prepare your proof before you argue.
• If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
• Don’t make toil of pleasure.
• Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
• The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.