A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
JEWISH PROVERB Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
JEWISH PROVERB Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
JEWISH PROVERB In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter
JEWISH PROVERB Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
JEWISH PROVERB Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
JEWISH PROVERB What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
JEWISH PROVERB What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
JEWISH PROVERB If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.
JEWISH PROVERB Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
JEWISH PROVERB Do not ask questions of fairy tales
JEWISH PROVERB When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed
JEWISH PROVERB Prepare your proof before you argue
JEWISH PROVERB When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage
JEWISH PROVERB He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief...
JEWISH PROVERB Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
JEWISH PROVERB If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
JEWISH PROVERB What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
JEWISH PROVERB Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
JEWISH PROVERB As he thinks in his heart, so he is.
JEWISH PROVERB A mother understands what a child does not say.
JEWISH PROVERB I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
JEWISH PROVERB At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, t...
JEWISH PROVERB Locks keep out only the honest.
JEWISH PROVERB God is closest to those with broken hearts.
JEWISH PROVERB Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
JEWISH PROVERB Worries go down better with soup than without.
JEWISH PROVERB If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
JEWISH PROVERB He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
JEWISH PROVERB Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
JEWISH PROVERB Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
JEWISH PROVERB Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
JEWISH PROVERB Locks keep out only the honest.
JEWISH PROVERB I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
JEWISH PROVERB Taxes grow without rain
JEWISH PROVERB What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what ...
JEWISH PROVERB It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
JEWISH PROVERB Man drives, but the Creator holds the reins
JEWISH PROVERB Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
JEWISH PROVERB Not to have felt pain is not to have been human.
JEWISH PROVERB If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists.
JEWISH PROVERB First mend yourself, and then mend others.
JEWISH PROVERB Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
JEWISH PROVERB A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
JEWISH PROVERB Loneliness breaks the spirit.
JEWISH PROVERB God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
JEWISH PROVERB Do not ask questions of fairy tales
JEWISH PROVERB In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter
JEWISH PROVERB Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys
JEWISH PROVERB What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
JEWISH PROVERB The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.
JEWISH PROVERB If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.
JEWISH PROVERB One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guar...
JEWISH FOLK SAYING Truth is heavy, so few men carry it.
JEWISH FOLK SAYING Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
JEWISH FOLK SAYING The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, f...
UNIVERSAL JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
PROVERB No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
PROVERB The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
PROVERB Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB The one who wills is the one who can.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Who has a trade may go anywhere.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB When fortune knocks open the door.
PROVERB People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have o...
PROVERB Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
PROVERB Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.
PROVERB Nature surpasses nurture.
PROVERB When money speaks the truth is silent.
PROVERB First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
PROVERB Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.
PROVERB Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.
PROVERB When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.
PROVERB One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.
PROVERB He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.
PROVERB Quackery has no friend like gullibility.
PROVERB No wonder lasts over three days.
PROVERB Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
PROVERB A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
PROVERB Contraries are cured by contraries.
PROVERB Where the law is uncertain there is no law.
PROVERB Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
PROVERB A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
PROVERB When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.
PROVERB Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
PROVERB It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best ...
PROVERB It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
PROVERB We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.
PROVERB Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
PROVERB A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor.
PROVERB Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.
PROVERB He makes his home where the living is best.
PROVERB Hygiene is two thirds of health.
PROVERB Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
PROVERB A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
PROVERB Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.
PROVERB Good habits result from resisting temptation.
PROVERB He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
PROVERB Every man for himself and God for us all.
PROVERB Grief is light that is capable of counsel.
PROVERB Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.
PROVERB Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
PROVERB In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
PROVERB He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
PROVERB One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
PROVERB You cannot be lost on a road that is straight.
PROVERB Fire is never a gentle master
PROVERB Practice what you preach.
PROVERB Weave in faith and God will find the thread.
PROVERB Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
PROVERB By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome
PROVERB If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
PROVERB An arch never sleeps.
PROVERB A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
PROVERB The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty wi...
PROVERB Doubt is the key to knowledge.
PROVERB When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing.
PROVERB Who loves well, chastises well.
PROVERB They say is often a great liar.
PROVERB The community of living is the carriage of the Lord.
PROVERB Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.
PROVERB Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's exactly the opposite.
PROVERB It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
PROVERB Think of many things, do only one.
PROVERB There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superio...
PROVERB Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso.
(Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick)
PROVERB A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
PROVERB There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.
PROVERB Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
PROVERB Buying is cheaper than asking.
PROVERB A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
PROVERB The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
PROVERB To change and change for the better are two different things
PROVERB Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.
PROVERB From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
PROVERB He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
PROVERB There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
PROVERB The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.
PROVERB Give neither counsel or salt till you are asked for it.
PROVERB To advise is easier than to help.
PROVERB You can't drive straight on a twisting lane.
PROVERB Good advice is beyond all price.
PROVERB To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.
PROVERB The beginning is the half of every action.
PROVERB Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
PROVERB It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
PROVERB If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.
PROVERB The early bird gets the worm.
PROVERB Where one is wise two are happy.
PROVERB A light heart lives long.
PROVERB In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.
PROVERB A heart that loves is always young.
PROVERB Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
PROVERB Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.
PROVERB We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
PROVERB He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way
PROVERB A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment
PROVERB Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep an...
PROVERB To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend...
PROVERB Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.
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