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| Yiddish Proverb
A child's tear rends the heavens.A dog without teeth will also attack a bone.A fool is his own informer.A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.A fool who can keep silent is counted among the wise.A golden key will open every lock.A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance. A half truth is a whole lie.A half-truth is a whole lie. A jest is half a truth.A man cannot jump over his own shadow.A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end--and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka.A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.A penny is a lot of money--if you haven't got a penny.A penny is a lot of money--if you haven't got a penny.A rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.A snake deserves no pity.A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.A wise man hears one word and understands two.After nine months the secret comes out.All signs are misleading.Better ask ten times than go astray once.Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy.Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about. Bygone troubles are good to tell.Cancer--schmancer!--as long as you're healthy.Charge nothing and you'll get a lot of customers.Charm is more than beauty.Dear God: You do such wonderful things for complete strangers; why not for me?Don't throw a stone into a well from which you have drunk.Every seller praises his wares.Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.God created a world full of little worlds.God gave burdens, also shoulders.God made man because he loves stories.Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.Golden dishes will never turn black.Had you gotten up early, you wouldn't have needed to stay up late.He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks.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.Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool.If a link is broken, the whole chain breaks.If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.If each one sweeps before his own door, the whole street is clean.If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are.If we all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.If you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm.If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.Interest on debts grow without rain.Love tastes sweet, but only with bread.Make new friends, but don't forget the old ones.Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains.Measure the corn of others with your own bushel.Money buys everything but good sense.One good deed has many claimants.Parents can give everything but common sense.Prayers go up and blessings come down.Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong.Provide for the worst; the best can take care of itself.Seek advice but use your own common sense.Send a fool to close the shutters and he'll close them all over town.Show a dog a finger, and he wants the whole hand.Silence is also speech.Sleep faster, we need the pillows.Talk too much and you talk about yourself.The complete fool is half prophet.The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue.The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. The nearer to the synagogue, the farther from God.The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.Trouble is to man what rust is to iron.Truth is the safest lie.Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.We are all schlemiels.What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.What you save is, later, like something found.When one must, one can.You buy yourself an enemy when you lend a man money.You buy yourself an enemy when you lend a man money.You can throw a cat whoever you want, it always falls on its feet.You can't chew with somebody else's teeth.You can't measure the whole world with your own yardstick. |
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