18 Quotations FoundID:316
Great is the pain of bringing up sons,
and greater of bringing up daughters.
ID:493
There is nobody as wise as a whipped dog.
ID:502
A pretty daughter is worth half the dowry.
ID:929
It is hard to be a Jew.
ID:1073
Even the luckless need some luck.
ID:1176
Adam was the luckiest of men:
he had no mother-in-law.
ID:1253
When partners multiply, so do arguments.
ID:1654
It is not the sin that drives one crazy
the the desire to sin.
ID:1770
If a horse with four legs can sometimes stumble,
how much more a man with only one tongue!
ID:1809
There is no man who has not his own pack of troubles.
ID:2363
You don't have to be big to be great.
ID:2581
Every Jew must either give or take charity for Passover.
ID:2727
It is hard to raise sons; and much harder to raise daughters.
ID:2745
Men make mistakes not because they think they know when they do not know, but because they think others do not know.
ID:2787
Gossip: nature's telephone.
ID:2876
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
ID:3064
Little troubles are really not so bad---for someone else.
ID:3120
A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.