Jewish Proverbs (628 Proverbs)
- The heart is small and embraces the whole wide world.
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- Someone who can hold on to his money is worth more than the one who earns it.
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- Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty.
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- One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.
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- You recognize the truth by its own sound.
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- With time, even a bear can learn to dance.
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- When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed.
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- When a divorced man marries a divorced woman, there are four people in that marital bed.
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- Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
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- There is nothing new under the sun -- and that's why there remains such a mess.
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- The schlemiel lands on his back and bruises his nose.
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- The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.
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- Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.
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- Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all.
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- One ass calls the other a pack animal.
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- You find everything when you are spring cleaning.
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- With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too.
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- When the wise man gets angry, he stops being wise.
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- What's left over from the thief is spent on the fortune-teller.
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- Trouble is to man what rust is to iron.
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- There is no such thing as tasty medicine.
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- The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.
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- The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
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- Small children won't let you sleep, bigger children won't let you live.
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- Pride is the mask we make of our faults.
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- Once it was the parents who taught their children to talk; now the children teach their parents to keep quiet.
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- You don't show a fool a job half done.
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- With a good son-in-law you gain a son, with a bad one you lose your daughter, too.
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- When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.
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- What you save is, later, like something found.
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- Treat me as a rabbi, but watch over me as a thief.
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- There are three things that attract: a house for its inhabitants, a woman for her spouse, and a bargain for a customer.
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- The rich man doesn't pay, the debtor does.
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- The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue.
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- Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of.
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- Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
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- Of what use is a torch at midday?
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- You do not fall because you are weak, you fall because you think you are strong.
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- Whoever teaches his son teaches not only his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations.
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- When the light is crooked, the shadow is crooked.
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- 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.
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- Too nice can cost a lot of money.
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- The wolf is not afraid of the dog, but he doesn't like the sound of his barking.
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- The rabbi drinks the wine and asks the others to be happy.
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- The door of success is marked "push" and "pull."
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- Slander is more deadly than weapons; weapons wound from close range, slander hurts from a distance.
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- Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.
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- Not only that the rich man is rich, but he has such good checks too.
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- You can't put "thank you" in your pocket.
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- Whoever marries for money will have unworthy children.
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- When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double.
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- What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
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- To save one man is like saving the world.
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- The world is in the hands of fools.
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- The punishment of a liar is that he is never believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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- The doctor has a remedy for everything but poverty.
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- Sins hide not in your sleep but in your dreams.
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- Poverty runs after the poor, wealth after the rich.
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- Not everyone who sits in the seat of honor is master.
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- You can't measure the whole world with your own yardstick.
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- Whoever depends on his wife's earnings will not succeed.
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- When God wants to punish an idiot, He teaches them a few words of Hebrew.
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- What value is a needle without an eye?
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- To punish a student, use a shoe lace.
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- The world is a tavern and the way hereafter is our home.
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- The place honors not the man; it is the man who honors the place.
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- The day is short and work lasts a long time.
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- Silence is a fine jewel for a woman, but it is little worn.
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- Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
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- You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
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- Who seeks more than he needs hinders himself from enjoying what he has.
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- When Dame Fortune calls, offer her a chair.
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- What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
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- To fall off a good horse is at least worthwhile.
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- The world exists on three things: truth, justice, and peace.
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- The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
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- The crow flies sky high and lands on a pig.
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- Show her the rudder, but don't steer her boat.
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- Pearls around the neck, stones upon the heart.
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- You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.
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