The Jewish Wisdom Database

Each child brings his own blessing into the world.

You can tell a Jew by how he treats his children.

A child's tears move the heavens themselves.

If the world will ever be redeemed, it will be through the virtues of children.

A child's simple sense is a kind of wisdom.

For children, we tear the world apart.

Don't gossip about the children of others while yours are still growing up.

Not to teach your son to work is like teaching him to steal.

Never promise something to a child and not give it to him, because in that way he learns to lie.

When you turn proud, remember that a flea proceded you in the order of divine creation.

In your town, your reputation counts; in another, your clothes do.

The man who does not respect clothes will not benefit from them.

Three things soften a man's heart: a pleasant melody, a pleasant scene, and a fragrant odor.

When a sage dies, all men should mourn.

Poverty in a home is worse than fifty plagues.

A village without a school should be abolished.

God created the Evil Impulse, but He also created its antidote, the Torah.

Three things are good in a little measure and bad in large: yeast, salt, and hesitation.

If you have a fine meal, enjoy it in a good light.

Regard as enormous the little wrong you did to others, and as trifling the great wrong done to you.

Whether you do little or much, let it be out of good intentions.

Happy is he who performs a good deed: for he may tip the scales for himself and the world.

The one who causes a good deed to be performed is as meritorious as the one who performs it.

Good men promise little and perform much; wicked men promise much and perform nothing.

Fish die out of water; men die without law and order.