Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

505 proverbs and old sayings yiddish

Tasty is the fish on someone else's dish.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

If a Jew cannot be a shoemaker, he will dream of being a professor.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about dream, being

If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about chance, man

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about curiosity, man

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about word, man

An angry man is not fit to pray.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about pray, man

How many will listen to the truth when you tell them?

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about truth

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

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about people, wealth, death

Look down if you would know how high you stand.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

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

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about dance

The truth is not always what we want to hear.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about truth

To be rich is not everything, but it certainly helps.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about wealth

A coin in an empty barrel, makes a lot of noise. People with little substance talk a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about people

Ca' me, ca' thee.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Nothing comes easy.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about nothing

Rob not, repent not.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Borrow causes sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about sadness

Once poor, never rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about wealth

We are all schlemiels.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish