Great Throughts Treasury

"A mother understands what a child does not say."

"A name made is a name lost."

"A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny."

"A person can study for seventy years and at the end die a fool."

"A person is always responsible: If his act was accidental or intentional, whether he was awake"

"A person who makes something should not speak its praises."

"A pessimist confronted with two bad choices, chooses both."

"A person slow to anger has great understanding; one with a quick temper exalts foolishness."

"A person worries about the past, distresses about the present, and fears the future."

"A pointed proverb is like a diamond: It emits light and it also cuts."

"A rich man has no need of character."

"A person's desires grow day by day."

"A scrap will not satisfy the lion."

"A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the hungry."

"A secret is between two; when a third is involved, it's no secret."

"A side-effect has a cause."

"A single witness is esteemed faithful when it comes to avouching a thing to be prohibited."

"A slap heals but a harsh word is remembered."

"A slanderer kills three: Himself, his listener, and the person who was slandered."

"A stupidly devout man, the slyly evil and the sanctimonious woman - these will destroy the"

"A slave shows his true character, not while he is enslaved but when he becomes a master."

"A wife is one's heart delight."

"A thing learned in childhood is proven in old age."

"A trifling amount hardly satisfies the lion, neither does a cistern fill up by the oozing of its bank."

"A wise son makes his father happy; a foolish one grieves his mother."

"According to a man's works is he matched with a woman."

"A word* to the wise is enough."

"Absent, you'll find small-mindedness."

"A woman's voice is tantamount to her nakedness."

"All Jews are responsible, one for another."

"All kinds of hellish devils rule an angry person."

"All of the people of Israel are inextricably bound together."

"Admission by the defendant is worth a hundred witnesses."

"Adam was the luckiest of men: He had no mother-in-law."

"Alas! Over those who are lost and are no longer to be found with us!"

"adviser; from then on, he's either your friend or your enemy."

"Against stupidity; G-d Himself is helpless."

"All is not butter that comes from a cow."

"All beginnings are fraught with difficulties."

"An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death"

"All things are foreseen [by G-d], yet the choice is given [unto man], and the world is judged by [its] good."

"Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand. Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh."

"All which G-d does, He does for good."

"An example is no proof."

"An unlucky man falls on straw, but splits his nose from a hidden stone."

"All things grow with time -- except grief."

"Anger in a house is like a worm in a plant."

"An [elder] daughter is an example to a [man's] sons."

"An anti-Semite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary."

"Anticipate every man's greeting; be a tail among lions than a head among foxes"