Be the master of your will, and the slave of your conscience.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Conscience
He who marries for money earns it.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Marriage
Truth is the safest lie.
—Yiddish Proverb
Sins hide not in your sleep but in your dreams.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Inheritance
Pride is the mask of one’s own faults.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Pride
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Gossip
Sleep faster—we need the pillows.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Experience costs blood.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Experience
Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Enemies
An empty barrel makes a lot of noise.
—Yiddish Proverb
No choice is an option.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Choices
If you find your friend on the sofa at home with your wife, you had better sell the sofa.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Home
From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.
—Yiddish Proverb
It’s astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Death
If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Fortune, Opportunity
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Angels, Religion
Send a fool to close the shutters and he’ll close them all over town.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Fools
Even for bad luck you need luck.
—Yiddish Proverb
Experience is what we call the accumulation of our mistakes.
—Yiddish Proverb
He that can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Adversity, Resilience, Resolve, Endurance, Perseverance, Difficulties
Interest on debts grows without rain.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Rain
He who puts up with insult invites injury.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Insults
Prayers go up and blessings come down.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Prayer, Blessings
The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Dreams
Better an ounce of happiness than a pound of gold.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Happiness, Gold
Health? Very nice! But where will we get potatoes?
—Yiddish Proverb
When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Luck, Cleverness
The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Heroism, Fighting, Heroes
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Love, Girls
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