The Jewish Wisdom Database

Honor the Lord with your substance!

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Better to get from God by the spoonful than from Man by the bushel.

When God is with you, fear not foe!

A golden key opens all gates.

Do not withhold good where it is due, if it be in your power to bestow it!

If a man return evil for good, evil will not depart from his home.

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and, where no whisperer is, quarrelling ceases.

As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

A rich guest is a burden - - - he demands so much!

Whatever has not happened in a thousand years may happen the next moment.

Ten enemies cannot do a man the harm that he can do himself.

Every one who hurries hastens only to want.

Do you see a man hasty of speech? There is more hope for a fool than for such.

Hatred stirs up strife.

Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life!

The heart knows its own bitterness.

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.

The heart of the intelligent seeks understanding.

A cheerful heart is an unending banquet.

The heart sees better than the eye.

Where there is honey, there are flies.

Before honor is humility.

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding established.

Who is sated rejects honey, but to a hungry man all that is bitter tastes sweet.