Quotes from Yiddish Proverb

Charm is more than beauty.

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play

If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Him your plans.

A quiet fool is half a sage.

The hardest work is to go idle.

Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal.

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

Bygone troubles are good to tell.

An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.

God gave burdens, also shoulders.

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

A snake deserves no pity.

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.

Don't spit into the well--you might drink from it later.

He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.