The Jewish Wisdom Database

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

Beauty may wither, but not grace.

Three things have charm: a place to its residents, a woman to her husband, a bargain to its customer, and some say, also, the Torah to its students.

Charm means more than beauty.

The man who divorces is not in the same situation as a woman divorced.

Even if you are perfect in all virtues, if you lack modesty, you are wanting.

Modesty is the greatest virtue in the world.

The modesty of the great is the greatest modesty.

A generation is only redeemed by grace of the righteous women in it.

Who is rich? The man with a wife of pleasant deeds. . .with contentment in his riches.

The wife of a scholar is accounted one, too.

Beware of two persons: a serious man behind whose gravity there is no lightness of mind and a woman of light mind with no gravity in it.

A woman's shame is greater than a man's.

Water wears stones away and jewels a woman's heart.

More than man wishes to marry, woman wishes to wed.

It is the way of a man to wage war, not the way of a woman.

Every widower finds his world darkened.

A good wife is a crown to her husband.

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a wise wife is from the Lord.

Who can find a good wife? Her price is far above pearls.

Cursed be he whose wife is faithful and himself is not!

A graceful wife lends grace to her husband.

Who is rich? Who has a wife lovely in her deeds.

A wife is one's heart's delight.