The Jewish Wisdom Database

If a man return evil for good, evil will not depart from his home.

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and, where no whisperer is, quarrelling ceases.

As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

Happiness will give you courage.

There are men who travel far to look for something that they can find in their own homes.

Every one who hurries hastens only to want.

Do you see a man hasty of speech? There is more hope for a fool than for such.

Hatred stirs up strife.

Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life!

The heart knows its own bitterness.

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.

The heart of the intelligent seeks understanding.

A cheerful heart is an unending banquet.

A small hole may mean the sinking of a big ship.

Before honor is humility.

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding established.

The size of the cedar is measured by its shadow, of a man by his humility.

Who is sated rejects honey, but to a hungry man all that is bitter tastes sweet.

Advice and words will not fill an empty belly.

Better a little with fear of the Lord, than great treasure and turmoil.

Jealousy rots the bones.

Jealousy has a thousand eyes, yet none sees properly.

A man is bitter against those that envy him, and is grieved if no one does.

One would not be jealous of one's friend if one could be like him.

Partiality in judgement is not good.