If there is bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won’t make life sweeter.

More Jewish Proverbs

• A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter.
• What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.
• A mother understands what a child does not say.
• If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
• Poverty is no shame – but is no great honor either.
• He who puts up with insult invites injury.
• Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
• Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh.
• 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.