The Jewish Wisdom Database

If your time has not come, even the doctor will not succeed in killing you.

A man may die even without a doctor.

Bring up a child in the way he should go, and, when he is old, he will not depart from it.

When a man's ways please Him, the Lord causes even his enemies to make peace with him.

Rejoice not when your enemy falls and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles!

If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, water to drink!

Your enemy's enemy is your friend.

All men are equal when they are underground.

If you return evil for good, evil will not depart from your house.

A man may learn for seventy years and at the end die a fool.

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.

Better a sardine on the dish than a flounder in the sea.

The complacency of fools is their undoing.

The way of the fool is right in his own eyes.

The simpleton believes everything.

Even a fool, if he keeps mum, is deemed wise.

A fool's tongue is his tragedy.

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is unfitting for fools.

Who belittles his friend lacks wit.

Wealth makes many friends.

Faithful are the words of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

No billy-goat is made a gardener.

A gift given in secret averts wrath.