More Jewish Proverbs
- Don’t make toil of pleasure.
- Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
- The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
- Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
- Sympathy is a little medicine to soothe the ache in another’s heart.
- Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile.
- When a habit begins to cost money, it’s called a hobby.
- The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.
- People make plans and God laughs.
- All things grow with time – except grief.
- Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty.
- With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
- The person who only accepts friends without faults will never have any real friends.
- Life is the biggest bargain. We get it for nothing.
- Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand.
- Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.
- Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
- You only hear three voices in this world: the babbling of the stream, Jewish law, and money.
- God is closest to those with broken hearts.
- Locks keep out only the honest.
- Don’t pick a wasp out of a cream-jug.
- Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
- In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter.
- He that can’t endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
- Don’t be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don’t be too bitter lest you be spewed out.
- Do not ask questions of fairy tales.
- Worries go down better with soup than without.