The Jewish Wisdom Database

The traveller who keeps on is bound to reach his destination.

Buy truth and sell it not!

Get wisdom, acquire understanding!

By wise counsel you can wage your war.

Pass not over water whose depth you know not, lest it run too deep!

Wealth is a pedigree to the man that lacks one.

The more money, the richer; the more wit, the happier.

Diverse weights and diverse measures are an abomination to the Lord.

The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they know not over what they stumble.

The mouth of the wicked utters the preverse.

Who says to the wicked: 'You are innocent' will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations.

A good wife is a crown to her husband.

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a wise wife is from the Lord.

Who can find a good wife? Her price is far above pearls.

A wife's bickering is as an endless dripping of rain.

A man is lucky if his wife, his studies and his livelihood all come from his own town.

If your wife be chaste, why should you watch her? If she be not, you will watch her in vain.

Wine cheers the heart of a man.

Look not on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly! In the end, it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

Give strong drink to the lost and wine to those in dire distress!

Wisdom cries without, she utters her voice in the streets.

Happy the man that finds wisdom!

The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom!

Wisdom is better than jewels.

Wisdom came before the Torah.