The Jewish Wisdom Database

Make it your rule not to ask for yourself more than others give you!

One does not send a dob as a gift to a bald man.

If you change the language, you change the content.

Many voices are not heard, but the barking which accompanies them is.

A dog which is not in its home-town does not bark.

Eating without drinking is like an undressed wound.

There are two kinds of speakers: one that we know in advance all that he is going to say and the other that even after he finishes his speech one does not know what he said.

It is easiser, perhaps, to do good deeds than tell good stories.

If a wolf comes to kill you, you are not bound to pat its back.