When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.

More Yiddish Proverbs

• Who dances at the wedding, weeps at the funeral.
• Provide for the worst; the best can take care of itself.
• Someone who can hold on to his money is worth more than the one who earns it.
• To every answer you can find a new question.
• What can you do with a good cow that gives a lot of milk and then kicks the bucket over
• The longer the blind live, the more they see.
• Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind.
• Too humble is half proud.
• You can wash your body but not your soul.
• Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs.
• From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.
• When one comes to comfort a young widow, he does not mean to perform a good deed.
• Experience is what we call the accumulation of our mistakes.
• What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
• If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.
• You can’t measure the whole world with your own yardstick.
• When God wants to punish an idiot, He teaches them a few words of Hebrew.
• One old friend is better than two new ones.
• The cold strengthens you more than hunger.
• The doctor has a remedy for everything but poverty.
• Some people are electrifying; they light up a room when they leave.
• Better a steady dime than a rare dollar.
• Better an honest slap in the face than an insincere kiss.
• You are ushered in according to your dress; shown out according to your brains.
• Men would not be richer for being miserly; generosity does not make a man poorer.
• If it must always be better, it can never be good enough.
• You never lose a false coin.