The Jewish Wisdom Database

You should not train a dog unless it is fastened by a chain.

One should not rear a vicious dog in one's home.

Who breeds an unruly dog in his house keeps kindness away.

A door once shut will not easily open again.

Just as there can be no corn-stalks without straw, so there can be no dreams without nonsense.

Who sees a well in his dream will see peace.

Every dream has a particle of prophecy in it.

No one drinks from a glass without examining it first.

The king of birds is the eagle.

If you do not know what there is on earth, do you expect to know what there is in heaven?

Eating induces sleep.

There can be no joy without food and drink.

Till you are forty there is profit in eating, from then on drinking prospers.

Talk not while you eat, lest windpipe anticipate gullet (and life be in danger)!

Every Jew should think of himself as having come out of Egypt. [Passover/Pesach]

The elephant is frightened of the gnat.

An emergency alters the situation.

If the evil inclination tells you: Sin and God will pardon!- - -believe it not!

Evil desire tempts Man in this world, then testifies against him in the world to come.

Make not the stranger king over you!

Evil inclination is sweet at the start and bitter at the end.

Exile atones for everything. Exile expiates sins.

Crooked parents can produce straight children.

The exiles will be gathered in only at the price of faith.

Who loves his wife as himself and respects her more than himself, who guides his sons and daughters in the straight path and weds them timely, of him it is said: [Job (Iyov) 5:24] 'You shall know that your tent is safe.'