Your friend has a friend, and your friend’s friend has another friend – so know when to keep quiet.

More Jewish Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.