The Jewish Wisdom Database

It is easier to make outrageous demands of others than the simplest of yourself.

God created Man. . .and placed him in the power of his desire.

Desire is the enemy of sense.

The more unattainable a thing, the greater the lusting for it.

Honor your physician according to your need of him! For verily the Lord has created him; and from the Lord comes his wisdom.

If the eagle goes walking, he will be trodden on like any worm.

The ears are the gateway to the mind.

Food to a man is like oil to a lamp.

Who can number the sands of the sea, and the rain-drips, and the days of eternity?

Exile is like a plant without soil or water; it withers without blossoming and it bears no fruit.

Godfearingness will keep you far from sin.

Better a man that hides his folly than one who hides his wisdom!

A day's happiness makes misfortune forgotten and a day's misfortune is the oblivion of happiness.

A faithful friend is a powerful defence; he that has found such a one has found a treasure.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new one is not his peer! A new friend is as new wine: when it is old, you shall drink it with pleasure.

Do not cast out an old friend for a new one!

Whoso casts a stone at a bird will frighten it away; and whoso abuses a friend will estrange affection.

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

The ghetto outlook divided the universe into two: this world for the Gentile and the next world for the Jew.

God is everywhere and everything.

The victims of gold are countless.

If you believe all gossip around you, you will be left without one good friend.

A man without grace is as a tale out of season.

Grammar is to speech what salt is to food, it should be in the right dose.

None is more contemptible than the greedy man, for he will even sell his soul.