Jewish

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.