The Jewish Wisdom Database

Can a woman forget her nursing child? Yes, even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

When you teach your son, use a carefully edited text.

Who fails to teach his son a trade might just as well have taught him to rob.

Even a child makes himself known by his acts.

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

I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.

Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their parents.

In pain shall you bear children.

Fathers are a crown to their sons and sons a crown to their sires.

If a man's wife dies and he has grown-up children, let him not remarry till he marry them off!

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever. [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 29:28]---The trouble is that even the revealed things are unseen by us.

Little children, little troubles; big children, big troubles.

Little children won't let you sleep; big children won't let you live.

Each child brings his own blessing into the world.

You can tell a Jew by how he treats his children.

A child's tears move the heavens themselves.

If the world will ever be redeemed, it will be through the virtues of children.

A child's simple sense is a kind of wisdom.

For children, we tear the world apart.

Don't gossip about the children of others while yours are still growing up.

Children without a childhood are tragic.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.