The Jewish Wisdom Database

Pleasant words are like honeycombs--- sweetness to soul and health to body.

Quarrel not with a man without reason, when he has done you no harm!

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife.

Rebuke not a scorner, lest he hate you. Rebuke a wise man and he will love you!

Who hates reproof is stupid.

A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred flailings into a fool.

Better a public scolding than love unrevealed.

Riches profit naught in the day of wrath.

Who trusts in his riches shall fall.

A rich man has many friends.

Do not toil to acquire wealth, be wise enough to desist; when your eyes light upon it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings.

Who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of wisdom.

The righteous is rescued from trouble; the wicked falls into it instead.

The root of the righteous will never be shaken.

A righteous man may fall seven times yet will rise again.

A rope drawn too tight is apt to snap.

Sacrifices offered by the wicked are an abomination to the Lord.

He that gathers little by little will multiply his means.

The tavern will not spoil the good nor school mend the bad.

No physician can cure a prejudice, which is a blindness in the mind.

A man without self-control is like a city stormed and its walls shattered.

If I am not for me, you will not be either.

Who flees from his shadow, his shadow pursues.

Who slanders is a fool.