343 Hebrew Proverbs / Page 9
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Make not thy tail broader than thy wings.162.
Man has succeeded in overcoming tremendous spaces, but not the distance between one man and another.163.
Man is like a bird: a bird can fly higher and higher, but only if its wings continue to move without stopping.164.
Man is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.165.
Man was born for love. if he hates, he was born in vain.166.
Many hands can shatter stout walls.167.
Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.168.
Marrying off a daughter is like loading cargo on a ship.169.
Men like guests more than women do.170.
Men were born with bread in their hands women were born with empty hands.171.
Money purifies everything.172.
More people die from overeating than from undernourishment.173.
More than the jewish people preserved the sabbath, the sabbath preserved them.174.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.175.
My friend tells me of my virtue. my enemy notes my fault.176.
Night was created so that we might consider what we did during the day.177.
No joy without wine.178.
No marriage contract is made without a quarrel.179.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.180.
No proverb is untrue.