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Jewish Proverbs

  • "Truth is the safest lie."

  • "Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it." "He who puts up with insult invites injury."

  • "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers."

  • "People come to poverty in two ways: accumulating debts and paying them off."

  • "Ask about your neighbors, before you buy the house."

  • "Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of your family."

  • "Never trust the person who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys."

  • "Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out."

  • "Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys."

  • "Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile."

  • "What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth."

  • "You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money."

  • "The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten."

  • "With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too."

  • "The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law."

  • "A half-truth is a whole lie."

  • "If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living."

  • "A mother understands what a child does not say."

  • "Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime."

  • "G-d created one world full of small worlds."

  • "Don't look for more honor than your life merits."

  • "Worries go down better with soup than without."

  • "The sun will set today without your assistance."

  • "Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills."

  • "The longer a blind man lives, the more he sees."

  • "A coin in an empty barrel, makes a lot of noise."

  • "Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds."

  • " Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side."

  • "If G-d lived on earth, people would break his windows."







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