More Jewish Proverbs
- Whoever does not try, does not learn.
- Only love gives us the taste of eternity.
- As you teach, you learn.
- Love is a sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
- I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
- 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.
- If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
- Poverty is no shame – but is no great honor either.
- He who puts up with insult invites injury.
- Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
- Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh.
- A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter.
- What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.
- A mother understands what a child does not say.
- 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.
- First mend yourself, and then mend others.
- Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all.
- When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- Truth is the safest lie.
- There is no book that contains absolutely nothing bad, and there is no book that contains absolutely nothing good.
- A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
- Don’t sell the sun to buy a candle.
- He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment brings him up to be a thief.
- When you open a door, don’t forget to close it. Treat your mouth accordingly.
- Loneliness breaks the spirit.