The heaviest burden is an empty pocket.

More Yiddish Proverbs

• When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double.
• In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
• If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
• Who talks a lot, talks about himself.
• Small children won’t let you sleep, bigger children won’t let you live.
• You reproach your daughter, but you mean your daughter-in-law.
• 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.