Great Throughts Treasury

"Any deed wrought by the forefathers is an example unto [their] sons."

"Anyone who disqualifies another, does so in the very malady with which he, himself, is plagued!"

"Anyone who teases you loves you."

"Any home not built for hot days or rains is not a home."

"Approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side."

"Anything which the Rabbis have enacted carries with it the full validity and force of the Law."

"Anyone who sustains one life is as though he sustained the world entire!"

"Anyone who has bread in his basket and asks, 'what shall I eat to-morrow,' belongs to those of little faith."

"Anything in excess is unhealthy."

"As he thinks in his heart, so he is."

"As is the claim for a hundred [pennyweight], so is the claim for a penny."

"As you do, so will be done to you."

"As is the trouble taken to procure a thing, so is the greatness of its reward!"

"As you teach, you learn."

"Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house."

"Be exceedingly humble in spirit, for the hope of earthly man is decay"

"Beating your wife with a paddle does not make the linen white."

"Because with tricks you should do a war."

"Be sure to send a lazy man for the angel of death."

"Because you have drowned others, you were drowned — and in the end, those who drowned you will be drowned."

"Be the day weary or be the day long, at last it ringeth to evensong."

"Better a mere kab from the floor, than a kor from the rooftop."

"Better a thousand deaths, and not a single case of envy!"

"Better blind of eye than blind of heart."

"Being hospitable is more important than attending synagogue service early in the morning."

"Better is one bird in the hand than two in the bush."

"Better be a tail for the lions than the head of the foxes."

"Better to die upright than to live on your knees."

"Better to make yourself a simple Sabbath meal, and not put yourself in need of others."

"Beware of the person who gives you advice according to his own interests."

"Blessings are inherent to those things that are concealed from the eyes."

"But for the warm breath generated by small children learning in the house of their Schoolmaster, the world could not exist."

"Can't see the forest for the trees."

"Caught lots - got nothing."

"Books provide knowledge, life furnishes understanding."

"Buttered bread always falls dry side up."

"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."

"Charity is the spice of riches."

"Choose an easy death for one who must be executed."

"Do not ask questions of fairy tales"

"Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime."

"Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds."

"Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time."

"Do not meet troubles half-way."

"Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills."

"Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side."

"Do not worry about tomorrow, for thou knowest not what the day will bring forth."

"Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small."

"Don’t live in a town where there are no doctors."

"Don't ask questions about fairy tales."