Yiddish Proverb Quotations

Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing

Show a dog a finger, and he wants the whole hand

If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you

If a link is broken, the entire chain breaks.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth

What you save is, later, like something found

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good

He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral

He who puts up with insult invites injury

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks

Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant

Surrounding yourself with dwarfs doesn't make you a giant

Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday

The eyes are the mirror of the soul

When a thief kisses you, count your teeth

With time, even a bear can learn to dance

Don't spit into the well - you might drink from it later

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes

The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Better ask ten times than go astray once

Seek advice but use your own common sense

There's plenty of time to bemoan bad fortune once it arrives

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living

If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

If you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

All of us are crazy in one way or another.

Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven

If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding

If God were living on earth, people would break His windows