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.

More Jewish Proverbs

• 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.
• Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
• Sympathy is a little medicine to soothe the ache in another’s heart.
• Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile.
• When a habit begins to cost money, it’s called a hobby.
• The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.
• People make plans and God laughs.
• All things grow with time – except grief.
• Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty.
• With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
• The person who only accepts friends without faults will never have any real friends.
• Life is the biggest bargain. We get it for nothing.
• Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand.
• Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.
• Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
• You only hear three voices in this world: the babbling of the stream, Jewish law, and money.
• God is closest to those with broken hearts.