Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors.
More Jewish Proverbs
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Sympathy doesn’t provide food, but it makes hunger more endurable.