When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

More Jewish Proverbs

• 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.
• A half-truth is a whole lie.
• Hospitality is one form of worship.
• Not to have felt pain is not to have been human.
• Never kiss an ugly girl; she will tell everyone.
• The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.
• A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
• Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
• The righteous say little and do much.
• If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall.
• No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.
• As he thinks in his heart, so he is.
• It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
• Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.
• 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.