Jewish Proverbs

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
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Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
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First mend yourself, and then mend others.
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
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Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
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God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers.
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Not to have felt pain is not to have been human.
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Who is wise? He who learns from all men.
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Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand. Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh.
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Worries go down better with soup than without.
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Do not ask questions of fairy tales.
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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
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A half-truth is a whole lie.
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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
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If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.
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Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
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He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
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The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
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People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
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Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
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Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all.
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If you can't go over, you must go under.
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When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.
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Loneliness breaks the spirit.
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He who puts up with insult invites injury.
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Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
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A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
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Small children, small problems; big children, big problems.
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Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
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A mother understands what a child does not say.
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