He that can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Endurance, Adversity, Resilience, Difficulties, Resolve, Perseverance
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Love, Girls
Even for bad luck you need luck.
—Yiddish Proverb
Even a ball of wool has a beginning.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Better ruined ten times than dead once.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Enjoyment
Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it’s harvest time.
—Yiddish Proverb
Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Modesty, Humility
Time is the best doctor.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Health
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Willpower, Acceptance, Proverbs, Will Power, Will
One does not live on joy or die of sorrow.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Joy
Experience costs blood.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Experience
The ugliest life is better than the nicest death.
—Yiddish Proverb
Come for your inheritance and you may have to pay for the funeral.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Inheritance
True poverty does not come from God.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Poverty
The less souls, the more joy.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Joy
Better a noble death than a wretched life.
—Yiddish Proverb
If you can’t bite, don’t show your teeth.
—Yiddish Proverb
Bygone troubles are good to tell.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Trouble, Proverbs, Adversity
He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Employment, Parenting, Parents
All brides are beautiful; all the dead are pious.
—Yiddish Proverb
Interest on debts grows without rain.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Rain
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: The Poor, Poverty
A golden key will open every lock.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Gold
Sleep faster—we need the pillows.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Doctors and gravediggers are partners.
—Yiddish Proverb
He who is aware of his folly is wise.
—Yiddish Proverb
Be the master of your will, and the slave of your conscience.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Conscience
Don’t call a man honest just because he never had the chance to steal.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Chance
Each child brings his own blessing into the world.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Blessings
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