The Jewish Wisdom Database

A bird you set free you may catch again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.

The ants are not a mighty people, yet they make ready their food in the summer.

A snake or scorpion never bit anyone in Jerusalem and a person never said to his fellow there is not enough room for me to sleep in Jerusalem.

You cannot make a dog into a lion.

A man should not eat before he feeds his livestock.

Like a bird that strays from her nest is a man who strays from his home.

Why is Israel like a dove? Other birds, when tired, rest on a branch; but when the dove tires, she rests one wing and flies with the other.

A giant feels the sting of a bee.

Man's chief superiority over animals is his power of speech; if he abuses it, he is no higher than they.

A dog knows exactly when its master is angry.

It is only cats that 'meow' and wail, lions roar.

If you judge men by their beards and their girth, then goats are the wisest creatures on earth.