The Jewish Wisdom Database

Every bribery of speech is also forbidden.

Let bygones be bygones!

One man's candle is light for many.

To perish by the sword is worse than a natural death, to die of hunger worse still, and captivity worst of all.

Always keep some cash in hand!

If you are twenty and still celibate, you will be thinking of sin all your days.

The side that changes an agreement will be the loser.

Who changes his place changes his luck.

Who accepts alms he needs not will end by truly needing alms before he leaves this world.

Three things have charm: a place to its residents, a woman to her husband, a bargain to its customer, and some say, also, the Torah to its students.

Wine is the cause of a great deal, and so is childhood.

Alas for that which goes and does not come back! And what is it? Rabbi Chasda said: It is childhood.

A childless man is as good as dead.

The world exists only because of the innocent breath of schoolchildren.

If it be as clear to you as the light of morn, say it! If it be not, say it not!

Who occupies himself with the needs of the community is as though he occupies himself with Torah.

If one member of the company dies, let the whole company take care!

Even in His wrath the Lord keeps in mind compassion.

The force of a compromise is greater than of a judgment.

Confession by the defendant is as good as a hundred witnesses.

A convert is regarded as an infant new-born.

A warning to courts: not to hear one litigant before the other comes.

Who eats fat sleeps in the attic; who eats greens may sleep on a dunghill unafraid.

A man should never stand in a place of danger and expect a miracle to happen to him.

David, King of Israel, lives on for ever!