Jewish Proverbs (628 Proverbs)
- We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
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- If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall.
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- When con men meet a legitimately honest man, they are so bewildered that they consider him a greater con man than themselves.
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- Let your ears hear what your mouth says.
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- When you open a door, don't forget to close it. Treat your mouth accordingly.
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- A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter.
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- Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
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- Whoever does not try, does not learn.
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- A person worries about the past, distresses about the present, and fears the future.
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- One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers.
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- Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator's will.
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- As you do, so will be done to you.
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- Only love gives us the taste of eternity.
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- With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
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- Beware of the person who gives you advice according to his own interests.
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- People are like grass in the field: some blossom, some wither.
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- Your friend has a friend, and your friend's friend has another friend -- so know when to keep quiet.
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- Charity is the spice of riches.
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- Sympathy doesn't provide food, but it makes hunger more endurable.
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- Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
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- Sympathy is a little medicine to soothe the ache in another's heart.
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- Don't be too sweet, or else you will be eaten up; but don't be too bitter, or else you will be spitted out.
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- Teach your tongue to say "I don't know" instead of to make up something.
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- Don't make a fence more expensive or more important than what it is fencing.
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- The person who only accepts friends without faults will never have any real friends.
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- Don't sell the sun to buy a candle.
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- The poor fool is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
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- Don't trust someone who tells you all of his troubles and keeps you from all of his joys.
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- The rich man carries God in his pocket, the poor man in his heart.
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- Even the most expensive clock still shows sixty minutes in every hour.
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- The righteous say little and do much.
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- First improve yourself, and then judge others.
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- There is no book that contains absolutely nothing bad, and there is no book that contains absolutely nothing good.
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- First learn, and then form opinions.
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- What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
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- If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.
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- When a father helps a son, both smile; but when a son must help his father, both cry.
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- Never approach a goat from the front, a horse from behind, and a fool from both sides.
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- Make new friends, but don't forget the old ones.
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- It is heavy to carry, but you cannot throw it away.
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- If you pray for another, you will be helped yourself.
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- If two people say he is drunk, the third one should sleep.
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- If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
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- If a Jew cannot be a shoemaker, he will dream of being a professor.
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- Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
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- He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
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- God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.
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- Don't throw a stone into a well from which you have drunk.
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- Do not eat before you have fed your animal.
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- Better the best of the worst than the worst of the best.
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- As the sheep are shorn, the lambs shiver.
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- A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.
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- A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
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- A friend you get for nothing; an enemy must be bought.
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- A big crowd, but not a human being in sight!
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- Mix with your neighbors, and you learn what's doing in your own house.
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- Love is like butter -- it's good with bread.
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- It is fitting for a great God to forgive great sinners.
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- If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything.
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- If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
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- If it were God's will, you could shoot with a broom too.
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- Ideas are something that usually comes like fireman- too late.
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- He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.
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- He is great whose faults can be numbered.
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- Gluttony has killed more people than famine has.
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- Each child brings his own blessing into the world.
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- Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
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- Better ten times ill than one time dead.
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- As the fat man gets thinner, the thin one is already dead.
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- A visit is like rainwater; you pray for it when it stays away and its a problem when it rains too much.
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- A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end--and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka.
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- A fool will jump into the bath and forget to wash his face.
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- A bad peace is better than a good war.
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- My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
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- Love him who tells you your faults in private.
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- It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
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- If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.
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- If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are.
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- If it must always be better, it can never be good enough.
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- I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet.
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