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

• First improve yourself, and then judge others.
• What the daughter does, the mother did.
• Charity is the spice of riches.
• Beware of the person who gives you advice according to his own interests.
• People are like grass in the field: some blossom, some wither.
• I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
• You can’t force anyone to love you or to lend you money.
• Better an honest smack in the face than a false kiss.
• 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.