You only hear three voices in this world: the babbling of the stream, Jewish law, and money.

More Jewish Proverbs

• 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.
• If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
• When con men meet a legitimately honest man, they are so bewildered that they consider him a greater con man than themselves.
• If you don’t aspire to great things, you won’t attain small things.
• God couldn’t be everywhere, so he created mothers.
• Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
• Let your ears hear what your mouth says.
• Because you have drowned others, you were drowned, and in the end, those who drowned you will be drowned.
• Your friend has a friend, and your friend’s friend has another friend – so know when to keep quiet.
• You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.
• Don’t look for more honor than your learning merits.
• A slave shows his true character, not while he is enslaved but when he becomes a master.
• Anyone who teases you loves you.
• One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers.
• First improve yourself, and then judge others.
• What the daughter does, the mother did.
• Charity is the spice of riches.
• Beware of the person who gives you advice according to his own interests.
• People are like grass in the field: some blossom, some wither.
• I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
• You can’t force anyone to love you or to lend you money.
• Better an honest smack in the face than a false kiss.
• What one has, one doesn’t want, and what one wants, one doesn’t have.
• When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed.
• As you do, so will be done to you.
• Do not meet troubles half-way.
• Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds.