Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish, page 21

505 proverbs and old sayings yiddish

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

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about earth, people, god

Your health comes first; you can always hang yourself later.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

I can find good in my boss but he is at loggerheads with me.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about heads, good, good luck

May God protect you from goyishe hands and yiddishe tongues.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about god

Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about paradise, hell

A good friend you get for nothing, an enemy you have to buy.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about commerce, enemies, nothing, good, good luck

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

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

A clock that stands still is better than one that goes wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bad

If you're fated to drown, you may die in a teaspoon of water.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about death, water

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

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about wealth, time, bad luck, bad

A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

If we all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about world

Ten enemies cannot do a man the harm that he does to himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about enemies, man

A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he's right.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about heroism, rightness

Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about bad, rightness

God will provide. If only God would provide until He provides.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about god

Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about charity, proudness

You reproach your daughter, but you mean your daughter-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about law

A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about curiosity, man

No man suffers from another's sins - he has enough of his own.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about sin, man