All of us are crazy in one way or another.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Insanity, Proverbs
A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Friends and Friendship
The girl who can’t dance says the band can’t play.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Failure, Dancing, Proverbs, Girls, Excuses
Send a fool to close the shutters and he’ll close them all over town.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Fools
An empty barrel makes a lot of noise.
—Yiddish Proverb
Time is the best doctor.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Health
Locks keep out only the honest.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Crime, Criminals
No choice is an option.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Choices
From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.
—Yiddish Proverb
One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Pessimism, Complaints, Complaining
A trick is clever only once.
—Yiddish Proverb
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Inheritance
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Fools, Foolishness
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Equality, People
One does not live on joy or die of sorrow.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Joy
The worst libel is the truth.
—Yiddish Proverb
Health? Very nice! But where will we get potatoes?
—Yiddish Proverb
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Religion, God
If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: The Truth, Dreams
Lost years are worse than lost dollars.
—Yiddish Proverb
Bygone troubles are good to tell.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Adversity, Trouble, Proverbs
You may deal in rags and dress in velvet.
—Yiddish Proverb
Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Humility, Modesty
True poverty does not come from God.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Poverty
God is a father, happiness is a stepfather.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Happiness
You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Intelligence, Luck, Intellectuals
The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Heroes, Fighting, Heroism
If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Excuses
Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Foolishness, Proverbs, Fools
Seek advice but use your own common sense.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Common Sense
Not all nice things are dear, but those that are dear are nice.
—Yiddish Proverb
What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Gossip, Eyes
Don’t be scared when you have no other choice.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Choices
A man should stay alive if only out of curiosity.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Curiosity
Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: People
Money goes to money.
—Yiddish Proverb
A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Wealth
If you’re skilled, your wallet will be filled.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Enjoyment
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
—Yiddish Proverb
Not all troubles come from heaven.
—Yiddish Proverb