
34 wonderfully wise Jewish sayings
The Jewish people's wisdom is proverbial itself, their shrewdness is the stuff of legend, and by no mere chance - the 'children of Moses' gave the world many witty proverbs and sayings that help us understand life better.
- Life's not as good with money as it is bad without it.
- Adam was the first lucky man as he had no mother-in-law.
- If a problem can be solved with money, then it's not a problem but a cost.
- God gave man two ears and one mouth, so listen more and talk less.
- May God protect you from bad people, and save yourself from good ones!
- Any Jew knows what's better.
- God cannot be everywhere at once, that's why He created mothers.
- Be not sweet, or else you'll be eaten. Be not bitter, or else you'll be spat out.
- Fear a goat in front of you, a horse behind you, and a fool all around.
- A guest and a fish start reeking on the third day.
- Knowledge does not take much space.
- Better a Jew without a beard than a beard without a Jew.
- A man should live at least for curiosity.
- A deaf man heard a dumb man recount that a blind man saw a lame one run very fast.
- God protect the poor - at least from expensive sins.
- If charity was worth nothing, everyone would be philanthropists.
- When an old maiden marries, she becomes a young wife.
- Parents teach their children to talk; children teach their parents silence.
- All people are good from afar.
- Eggs may be much cleverer than chickens, but they go rotten too quickly.
- Keeping good silence is harder than talking good.
- A bad partner is worse than rain - the latter makes you go home, while the former makes you go outside.
- The world will not disappear because there are many people, but because there are too many non-people.
- God help me rise to my feet; a fall is what I can do myself.
- If life doesn't change for the better, wait, and it will change for the worse.
- However sweet love may be, you can't make a stew out of it.
- When people have nothing to do, they take up great deeds.
- Choosing between two evils, a pessimist picks both.
- Everyone complains about a lack of money, but none complain about a lack of brains.
- Who doesn't have children brings them up best.
- It's better to die of laughter than of fear.
- Experience is the word people use to call their mistakes.
- Being gray of hair means you're simply old, not wise.
- Growing old, man's sight worsens, but this allows him to see more.
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