Great Throughts Treasury

"In a beautiful apple you sometimes find a worm."

"In a lucky time it?s good to talk; in an unlucky time, it?s better to be silent."

"In a quarrel, leave the door open for a reconciliation."

"In a quarrel, each side is right."

"I'll make mincemeat out of him!"

"In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool."

"In bad times even a penny is money."

"In the mirror everybody sees his best friend."

"Interest on debts grow without rain."

"In sleep, man doesn?t sin, but his dreams do."

"Ink dries quickly; tears don?t."

"It can?t (wouldn?t) hurt."

"It costs money to sin."

"It costs nothing to look."

"It doesn?t cost anything to promise and to love."

"It doesn?t take long to get used to good things."

"It doesn?t matter to me."

"It gives me great pleasure (often said sarcastically)."

"It helps like blood-cupping helps a dead person."

"It is better to be embarrassed than heartbroken."

"It doesn't cost anything to look."

"It is better to live in joy than to die in sorrow."

"It is easier to find faults in others than virtues in oneself."

"It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love."

"It is conceivable. It is imaginable."

"It is not so good with money as it is bad without it."

"It is written: silence is wisdom."

"It melts in the mouth, delicious, yummy."

"It is easier to hear a secret than to keep it."

"It isn?t done as easily as it?s said."

"It is not good to be alone, even in Paradise."

"It should not happen (to you); God forbid! (concerning a sad event) (lit., don?t you think [it])"

"It should bang in your head (the way it is bothering me!)."

"It will all work out."

"It won?t hurt in arranging a marriage."

"It?s better to be with a wise man in hell than with a fool in paradise."

"It?s better to praise yourself than to disparage others."

"It?s bitter and bad when the public is wrong."

"It will happen when hair grows on the palm of my hand."

"It?s a shame for the children!"

"It?s a shame to waste money on that!"

"It?s a steal (lit., a bargain for/from a thief)."

"It?s better to be embarrassed than heartbroken."

"It?s as appropriate as a pig."

"It?s as appropriate as a slap in response to a greeting of ?good shabbos?."

"It?s easy to acquire an enemy; hard to acquire a friend."

"It?s bitter like bile and without bile one cannot live."

"It?s delicious (lit., one can lick the finger)."

"It?s completely useless, futile (lit., it helps like blood-cupping helps a dead person)."

"It?s easier to earn money than to keep it."