Too humble is half proud.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Humility
Send a fool to close the shutters and he’ll close them all over town.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Fools
Even a ball of wool has a beginning.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Enemies
All brides are beautiful; all the dead are pious.
—Yiddish Proverb
Even for bad luck you need luck.
—Yiddish Proverb
Whoever looks for easy work goes to bed very tired.
—Yiddish Proverb
Experience is what we call the accumulation of our mistakes.
—Yiddish Proverb
Pride is the mask of one’s own faults.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Pride
Small children won’t let you sleep, bigger children won’t let you live.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
The ugliest life is better than the nicest death.
—Yiddish Proverb
Sleep faster—we need the pillows.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Sins hide not in your sleep but in your dreams.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Pride
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Religion, God
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Family, Father
All of us are crazy in one way or another.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Insanity, Proverbs
Each child brings his own blessing into the world.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Blessings
A trick is clever only once.
—Yiddish Proverb
You may deal in rags and dress in velvet.
—Yiddish Proverb
Give me, Lord, my daily bread, I will get my own brandy.
—Yiddish Proverb
No choice is also a choice.
—Yiddish Proverb
Better an ounce of happiness than a pound of gold.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Gold, Happiness
Confidence is half of victory.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Self Confidence, Proverbs
He that can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Difficulties, Resolve, Perseverance, Adversity, Endurance, Resilience
Loneliness breaks the spirit.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Loneliness
Bygone troubles are good to tell.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Adversity, Trouble
Not all nice things are dear, but those that are dear are nice.
—Yiddish Proverb
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
—Yiddish Proverb
No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.
—Yiddish Proverb
Topics: Listening