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First improve yourself, and then judge others. -
What one has, one doesn’t want, and what one wants, one doesn’t have. -
Taxes grow without rain. -
A person worries about the past, distresses about the present, and fears the future. -
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A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. -
Don’t make a fence more expensive or more important than what it is fencing. -
Don’t make toil of pleasure. -
People make plans and God laughs. -
Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill. -
Don’t be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don’t be too bitter lest you be spewed out. -
A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter. -
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Truth is the safest lie. -
Pride is the mask of one’s own faults. -
Sympathy doesn’t provide food, but it makes hunger more endurable. -
What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead. -
Because you have drowned others, you were drowned, and in the end, those who drowned you will be drowned. -
What the daughter does, the mother did. -
When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed. -
Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator’s will. -
Teach your tongue to say “I don’t know” instead of to make up something. -
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. -
The worst life is better than the best death. -
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands. -
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All things grow with time – except grief. -
You only hear three voices in this world: the babbling of the stream, Jewish law, and money. -
Do not ask questions of fairy tales. -
What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth. -
There is no book that contains absolutely nothing bad, and there is no book that contains absolutely nothing good. -
Ideas are something that usually comes like fireman- too late. -
He who prays for his neighbor will be heard for himself. -
If not for fear, sin would be sweet. -
Your friend has a friend, and your friend’s friend has another friend – so know when to keep quiet. -
Charity is the spice of riches. -
As you do, so will be done to you. -
He who has no hand cannot clench his fist. -
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Where two Jews, three opinions. -
The righteous say little and do much. -
If there is bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won’t make life sweeter. -
The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten. -
Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty. -
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God is closest to those with broken hearts. -
Worries go down better with soup than without. -
A mother understands what a child does not say. -
A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both. -
If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists. -
Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors. -
When con men meet a legitimately honest man, they are so bewildered that they consider him a greater con man than themselves. -
You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. -
Beware of the person who gives you advice according to his own interests. -
Do not meet troubles half-way. -
If you can’t go over, you must go under. -
A half-truth is a whole lie. -
If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall. -
A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing. -
Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. -
With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too. -
Locks keep out only the honest. -
Whoever does not try, does not learn. -
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. -
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. -
Don’t sell the sun to buy a candle. -
Don’t trust someone who tells you all of his troubles and keeps you from all of his joys. -
If you don’t aspire to great things, you won’t attain small things. -
Don’t look for more honor than your learning merits. -
People are like grass in the field: some blossom, some wither. -
Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds. -
The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -
Hospitality is one form of worship. -
No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen. -
In choosing a friend, go up a step. -
Sympathy is a little medicine to soothe the ache in another’s heart. -
The person who only accepts friends without faults will never have any real friends. -
Don’t pick a wasp out of a cream-jug. -
Only love gives us the taste of eternity. -
Poverty is no shame – but is no great honor either. -
First mend yourself, and then mend others. -
He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment brings him up to be a thief. -
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. -
God couldn’t be everywhere, so he created mothers. -
A slave shows his true character, not while he is enslaved but when he becomes a master. -
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. -
Even the most expensive clock still shows sixty minutes in every hour. -
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. -
Not to have felt pain is not to have been human. -
As he thinks in his heart, so he is. -
Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small. -
Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile. -
Life is the biggest bargain. We get it for nothing. -
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -
As you teach, you learn. -
He who puts up with insult invites injury. -
Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all. -
When you open a door, don’t forget to close it. Treat your mouth accordingly. -
Don’t live in a town where there are no doctors. -
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death. -
Anyone who teases you loves you. -
You can’t force anyone to love you or to lend you money. -
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. -
When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage. -
Never kiss an ugly girl; she will tell everyone. -
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love. -
Prepare your proof before you argue. -
When a habit begins to cost money, it’s called a hobby. -
Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand. -
In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter. -
Love is a sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock. -
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. -
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. -
Loneliness breaks the spirit. -
God gives burdens also shoulders. -
Let your ears hear what your mouth says. -
One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers. -
Better an honest smack in the face than a false kiss. -
The poor fool is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose. -
First learn, and then form opinions. -
The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one. -
Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless. -
If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. -
The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown. -
Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure. -
He that can’t endure the bad, will not live to see the good. -
I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. -
Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh.
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