Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind.

More Yiddish Proverbs

• It’s good to hope, it’s the waiting that spoils it.
• She who wants to marry her stepfather regrets it in bed.
• You find everything when you are spring cleaning.
• You can’t make cheesecakes out of snow.
• What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.
• Don’t be scared when you have no other choice.
• You do not fall because you are weak; you fall because you think you are strong.
• He who is aware of his folly is wise.
• God created a world full of little worlds.
• With time even a bear can learn to dance.
• Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it’s harvest time.
• Women can keep only one secret – their own.
• What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
• When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.
• Better ten times ill than one time dead.
• Better a Jew without a beard than a beard without a Jew.
• Lost years are worse than lost dollars.
• Better ask ten times than go astray once.
• The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.
• The wolf is not afraid of the dog, but he doesn’t like the sound of his barking.
• Better ruined ten times than dead once.
• The pen wounds deeper than an arrow.
• When Dame Fortune calls, offer her a chair.
• Time is the best doctor.
• Who dances at the wedding, weeps at the funeral.
• Provide for the worst; the best can take care of itself.
• Someone who can hold on to his money is worth more than the one who earns it.