Quotes from Yiddish Proverb

Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one.

Stupidities that succeed are still stupidities.

True poverty does not come from God.

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Truth never dies but lives a wretched life.

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

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?

God will provide - if only God would provide until he provides.

The world is more exacting than God himself.

If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.

Words should be weighed and not counted.

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

Bygone troubles are good to tell.

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

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

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

A half truth is a whole lie.

An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.

The hardest work is to go idle.

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

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

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

A person's worst enemy can't wish on him what he can think up himself.