Proverb, Jewish quotes

Sayings of Jewish Origin

You can t force anyone to love you or lend you money.
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Control

Locks keep out only the honest.
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Crime and Criminals

If you can t go over, you must go under.
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Difficulties

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet.
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Complaints and Complaining

All things grow with time -- except grief.
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Grief

What you don t see with your eyes, don t witness with your mouth.
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Gossip

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.
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Friends and Friendship

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
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God

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
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Family

One of life s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
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Family

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
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Family

God is closest to those with broken hearts.
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God

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
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Gossip

Don t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
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Fools and Foolishness

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.
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Friends and Friendship

Loneliness breaks the spirit.
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Loneliness

When a habit begins to cost money, it s called a hobby.
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Leisure

He who puts up with insult invites injury.
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Insults

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.
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Listening

You don t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.
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Intelligence and Intellectuals

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
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Love

A mother understands what a child does not say.
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Mothers

He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.
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Parents and Parenting

Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
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Modesty

God couldn t be everywhere, so he created mothers
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Mothers

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.
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Money

Pride is the mask of one s own faults.
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Pride

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.
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Prayer

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

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
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Tears

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.
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Stupidity

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.
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Service

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
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Angels