More Jewish Proverbs
- What one has, one doesn’t want, and what one wants, one doesn’t have.
- When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed.
- As you do, so will be done to you.
- Do not meet troubles half-way.
- Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds.
- Even the most expensive clock still shows sixty minutes in every hour.
- A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
- The poor fool is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
- Taxes grow without rain.
- Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator’s will.
- He who has no hand cannot clench his fist.
- If you can’t go over, you must go under.
- The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
- What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
- When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.
- First learn, and then form opinions.
- 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.