Hebrew Proverb Quotations

When the need is highest, God is nighest

Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

He who puts a friend to public shame is as guilty as a murderer

He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Judge not thy neighbor until thou art come into his place

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations

Who is mighty? One who makes an enemy into a friend

Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend

Who is wise? He who can learn from every man

Who seeks more than he needs hinders himself from enjoying what he has

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence

Pride is the mask we make of our faults

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of

The best way to know a man is to watch him when he is angry

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich

Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide

An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death