551 Yiddish Proverbs / Page 25
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Walk straight and you will not fall.482.
We are all schlemiels.483.
We have far greater compassion for another's misfortune than our pleasure in another's good fortune.484.
Weeping makes the heart grow lighter.485.
What a fool can spoil, ten wise men cannot repair.486.
What a man thinks up for himself, his worst enemy couldn't wish for him.487.
What can you do with a good cow that gives a lot of milk and then kicks the bucket over?488.
What good is honor when you're starving?489.
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.490.
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.491.
What use is wisdom when folly reigns?492.
What value is a needle without an eye?493.
What will be, will be.494.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.495.
What you save is, later, like something found.496.
What's left over from the thief is spent on the fortune-teller.497.
When a father gives to his son, they both laugh.498.
When a fool has the cow by the horns, the wise man can milk it.499.
When a miller fights with a chimney sweep, the miller gets black and the chimney sweep gets white.500.
When a mother calls her child bastard, you can take her word for it.