The Jewish Wisdom Database

A little bitterness will spoil a lot of honey.

Where there is honey, there are flies.

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

To break the barrel and keep its wine. [You cannot eat your cake and have it.]

Eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart!

By the sweat of your brow shall you get bread to eat.

If you eat the fruit of the labor of your hands, you will be happy and prosperous.

Nowhere in the world can the Jew savor the taste of Homeland save in the Land of Israel.

Who depends on eating at his friend's table will go hungry.

Eat greens in peace, not meat in peril!

Here is food and here is drink--- but, if there is no peace, there is nothing.

Oil and perfume gladden the heart.

If a poor man bakes a cake, any man that comes and snatches it from him is held wicked.

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

Sayings of the wise are like a tonic wine, pleasure to the spirit and cure to the flesh.

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the hungry.

All dishes need salt, but not all need spices.

Yeast, salt and recalcitrance are good only in small doses.

A meal without salt is no meal.

Wine in, secret out.

Our ancestors in the desert remembered the fine fish they used to eat in Egypt, but the hard labor they were made to do there they forgot.

Sugar in the mouth will not help if the heart is bitter.

Man could not have known sweetness until he tasted the bitter.

Prepare tasty dishes to each according to his taste; think not that what is sweet to your palate is sweet to your neighbor's!

There is no disputing about tastes.