Great Throughts Treasury

"Lived like a lord and died like a fool."

"Loaf, do nothing, be completely inactive (lit., not to put a finger in cold water)."

"Locks keep out only the honest."

"Loneliness breaks the spirit."

"Look down, and you?ll know how high up you are."

"Lose an hour in the morning, chase it all day."

"Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family."

"Lost years are worse than lost dollars."

"Love and hunger don?t dwell together."

"Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands."

"Love is blind."

"Luck and charm cannot be purchased in a store."

"Love the other fellow and don?t let yourself be fooled by the first."

"Love is like butter; it?s good with bread."

"Lying in the ground, baking bagels."

"Make new friends, but don't forget the old ones."

"Make it round and to the point!"

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

"Luck without sense is a perforated sack."

"Man is born to die."

"Man is what he is, but not what he used to be."

"Man begins in dust and ends in dust? meanwhile it's good to drink some vodka."

"Man keeps hoping till he goes to his eternal slumber."

"Man has two eyes, two ears, but only one mouth."

"Man proposes, God disposes."

"Man rides, but God holds the reins."

"Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains."

"Man plans and God laughs."

"Man proposes, God disposes (lit., man plans, God laughs)."

"Marriage is like a padlock, divorce the key."

"Many songs, but few dumplings."

"Marry blindly and your wife will lead you by the nose."

"Married in a hurry and stuck for good."

"May a strange death befall you!"

"May a beautiful, purified plague befall them."

"May all your teeth fall out, except one to give you a toothache."

"May God help me!"

"Marrying and dying are two things for which one is never late."

"May he become swollen and veined like a mountain."

"May God help you like cupping helps a corpse."

"May God prevent!"

"May he have a big store full of goods: may people not ask for what he has, and may he not have what they ask for."

"May he rest in peace, and have a long wait (till I die and join him)."

"May he have a hundred houses, each house with a hundred rooms, each room with twenty beds, and may fevers and chills toss him from bed to bed."

"May he swallow an umbrella and may it open in his belly!"

"May he crawl on his belly!"

"May he die a violent death!"

"May he turn yellow and green!"

"May you eat chopped liver with onions, shmaltz herring, chicken soup with dumplings, baked carp with horseradish, braised meat with vegetable stew, latkes, tea with lemon, every day - and may you choke on every bite!"

"May you grow like an onion with your head in the ground."