124 Sayings of Jewish Origin

1. "If you don't aspire to great things, you won't attain small things." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "Prepare your proof before you argue." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "Only love gives us the taste of eternity." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "What one has, one doesn't want, and what one wants, one doesn't have." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "Locks keep out only the honest." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "Because you have drowned others, you were drowned, and in the end, those who drowned you will be drowned." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "As you do, so will be done to you." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "Be sure to send a lazy man for the angel of death." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "Where two Jews, three opinions." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "When you open a door, don't forget to close it. Treat your mouth accordingly." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "In choosing a friend, go up a step." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "Do not ask questions of fairy tales." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "Better an honest smack in the face than a false kiss." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "Your friend has a friend, and your friend's friend has another friend, so know when to keep quiet." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "Don't make toil of pleasure." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "Not to have felt pain is not to have been human." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "As you teach, you learn." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "A half-truth is a whole lie." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "Sympathy doesn't provide food, but it makes hunger more endurable." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "A slave shows his true character, not while he is enslaved but when he becomes a master." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "If you can't go over, you must go under." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "The poor fool is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "He who prays for his neighbor will be heard for himself." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "Loneliness breaks the spirit." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "The righteous say little and do much." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "First mend yourself, and then mend others." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "Whoever does not try, does not learn." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "You can't force anyone to love you or to lend you money." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "God gives burdens also shoulders." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "Beware of the person who gives you advice according to his own interests." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "A person worries about the past, distresses about the present, and fears the future." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "Love is a sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "People are like grass in the field, some blossom, some wither." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "Don't sell the sun to buy a candle." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "Teach your tongue to say “I don't know” instead of to make up something." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "Life is the biggest bargain. We get it for nothing." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "Hospitality is one form of worship." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "If not for fear, sin would be sweet." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment brings him up to be a thief." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "Don't make a mountain out of a molehill." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "Let your ears hear what your mouth says." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "He who puts up with insult invites injury." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "First improve yourself, and then judge others." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "What the daughter does, the mother did." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "Never kiss an ugly girl; she will tell everyone." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "Don't pick a wasp out of a cream-jug." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "Do not be wise in words, be wise in deeds." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "People make plans and God laughs." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "Don't make a fence more expensive or more important than what it is fencing." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "As he thinks in his heart, so he is." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "The worst life is better than the best death." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator's will." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "Don't live in a town where there are no doctors." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "Don't trust someone who tells you all of his troubles and keeps you from all of his joys." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

82. "Don't look for more honor than your learning merits." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

83. "All things grow with time, except grief." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

84. "You only hear three voices in this world, the babbling of the stream, Jewish law, and money." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

85. "Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

86. "One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

87. "Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

88. "Taxes grow without rain." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

89. "Even the most expensive clock still shows sixty minutes in every hour." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

90. "The person who only accepts friends without faults will never have any real friends." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

91. "When con men meet a legitimately honest man, they are so bewildered that they consider him a greater con man than themselves." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

92. "There is no book that contains absolutely nothing bad, and there is no book that contains absolutely nothing good." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

93. "Sympathy is a little medicine to soothe the ache in another's heart." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

94. "Worries go down better with soup than without." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

95. "God is closest to those with broken hearts." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

96. "A mother understands what a child does not say." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

97. "It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

98. "Do not meet troubles half-way." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

99. "A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

100. "Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

101. "The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

102. "If there is bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

103. "Pride is the mask of one's own faults." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

104. "Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

105. "Ideas are something that usually comes like fireman- too late." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

106. "Charity is the spice of riches." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

107. "A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

108. "Anyone who teases you loves you." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

109. "Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

110. "You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

111. "First learn, and then form opinions." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

112. "A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

113. "Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

114. "Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

115. "Poverty is no shame, but is no great honor either." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

116. "If God lived on earth, people would break his windows." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

117. "Truth is the safest lie." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

118. "He who has no hand cannot clench his fist." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

119. "He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

120. "If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

121. "When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

122. "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

123. "God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet

 

124. "The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law." (Jewish Sayings) Click to tweet