The Jewish Wisdom Database

The adulterer and the adulteress have surely broken all Ten Commandments.

Drop by drop the pitcher fills.

Because of gluttony, Esau sold his birthright.

Heart and eyes are brokers of the body.

None of your honey, none of your sting!

No spot in the Land of Israel is empty of God's Presence.

Not everything near is really so, nor everything far really distant.

As all faces of people are unlike, so too their opinions.

Benedictions are of no avail if peace is not with them.

As the stars do not quarrel among themselves, so,too, with the righteous.

The righteous man is like a palm-tree---as the shade of a palm is cast far, so the reward of the righteous will be distant, in the world to come.

Cast no stone into the well that gives you water!

Cast not a stone into the well whence you drank! [Bite not the hand that feeds you!]

Where there is wine there is lust.