Yiddish Proverbs

If your healthy, your wealthy.

If you can – do!

Gold will never get rusty.

If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are.

If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep.

Charm is more than beauty.

Seek advice but use your own common sense.

Words should be weighed, not counted.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Better a steady dime than a rare dollar.

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.

A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

Money doesn’t grow on trees.

Make new friends, but don’t forget the old ones.

Time and words can’t be recalled, even if it was only yesterday.

If a link is broken, the whole chain breaks.

If you ever need a helping hand you’ll find one at the end of your arm.

Interest on debts grow without rain.

Confidence is half of victory.

A chip off the old block.

Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.

Time and words can’t be recalled, even if it was only yesterday.

Beautiful is not what is beautiful, but what one likes.

If each one sweeps before his own door, the whole street is clean.

If each one sweeps before his own door, the whole street is clean.

The smoothest way is full of stones.

Had you gotten up early, you wouldn’t have needed to stay up late.