The Jewish Wisdom Database

The Land made us a people.

A fool raises his voice in laughter, a wise man smiles in silence.

Lend a man money when he needs it and pay back a loan yourself in time!

There is no single letter in the Scriptures whereon a thousand secrets do not hang.

The wicked will be ensnared by his own lips.

Logic is the scales of all science.

A man is lonely until he finds himself.

Love blinds the eyes to faults, and hatred blinds them to virtues.

Love will cloud the mind's eye.

My son, answer not before you hear, nor speak in the midst of converse!

It is follly to listen at the door, and the clever man regards this as a very shameful thing.

Who wishes to be friendly with people should cling to good manners.

Memory cannot recall more than what was forgotten.

The heart of the fools is in their mouth, but the mouth of the wise is in their heart.

There does not exist a vacuum in nature.

Do not accustom your lips to utter oaths!

The man that swears many oaths will be filled with iniquity.

Shame not the old: we shall all be numbered among them.

Long experience is the crown of the aged.

Old age is the mother of forgetfulness.

Who respects the elderly is as if he respects the Lord.

There is one thing a man cannot change---his parents.

A man's intelligence is beneath the point of a pen.

There is no remedy for a man who starts looking upon life with unrelieved pessimism.

The best of poems is that which men of intelligence are content with and the people understand.