An example is no proof.
—Yiddish Proverb
A man should stay alive if only out of curiosity.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Curiosity
Who dances at the wedding, weeps at the funeral.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Dance, Weddings
Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: People
No choice is also a choice.
—Yiddish Proverb
You can wash your body but not your soul.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: The Body
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Inheritance
God gave burdens, also shoulders.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Adversity, Worry
Better an ounce of happiness than a pound of gold.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Happiness, Gold
You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Luck, Intellectuals, Intelligence
The heart is small and embraces the whole wide world.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Heart
Health? Very nice! But where will we get potatoes?
—Yiddish Proverb
Better a noble death than a wretched life.
—Yiddish Proverb
Sins hide not in your sleep but in your dreams.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Experience is what we call the accumulation of our mistakes.
—Yiddish Proverb
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Destiny
He who is aware of his folly is wise.
—Yiddish Proverb
If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Opportunity, Fortune
He that can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Perseverance, Resilience, Endurance, Adversity, Resolve, Difficulties
All brides are beautiful; all the dead are pious.
—Yiddish Proverb
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Poverty, The Poor
God will provide—ah, if only He would till He does!
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: God
Charm is more than beauty.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Charm, Proverbs
Whoever looks for easy work goes to bed very tired.
—Yiddish Proverb
The worst libel is the truth.
—Yiddish Proverb
You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Pride
If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Heart
Too humble is half proud.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Humility
The eyes are the mirror of the soul
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Eyes
If you can’t go over, you must go under.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Difficulty, Difficulties
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