Great Throughts Treasury

"One occurrence does not indicate a general pattern."

"One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers."

"One man differs from another in three things: His voice, his appearance, and his mind."

"One doesn't know another's sorrow."

"One person's candle furnishes light for many."

"One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world."

"One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel."

"Only love gives us the taste of eternity."

"People worry, and G-d smiles."

"One swallow does not herald the coming of spring."

"Only that labor which comes with pre-meditated thought has the Law (Torah) prohibited."

"People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off."

"People make plans and G-d laughs."

"People hate what they do not understand."

"Open a shop unless you know how to smile."

"Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence."

"Out of sight - out of mind"

"People are like grass in the field: some blossom, some wither."

"Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all."

"Poverty is no disgrace, but neither do you have to take pride in it."

"Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty."

"Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him."

"Promise little and do much."

"Pride is not comely unto women."

"Physician, heal thyself."

"Prepare your proof before you argue."

"Pride is the mask of one's own faults."

"Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure."

"Prostitutes and soldiers everyone else is useless to the objective of an idea."

"Receive the payment. Deliver the goods!"

"Real success is success of the soul."

"Satan does not rail at a man except in his hour of danger."

"Silence is a fine jewel for a woman, but it is little worn."

"Since G-d could not be everywhere, he created mothers."

"Silence is a woman's best garment."

"Saul fell once, and he was dismissed. David twice, yet he stayed on."

"Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either."

"Sell what thou hast to sell, yet whilst the dust of that transaction still clingeth upon thy feet, go and invest the revenue in other stock!"

"Sinful fancies are more injurious to health than the sin itself."

"Small children, a headache. Big children, heartache."

"Something you have for certain now is of more value than something better you may get, especially if you risk losing what you have in order to get it."

"Small children, small problems; big children, big problems."

"Sins shall be punished, but people are not allowed to take the law into their own hands."

"Sometimes the position does not make the man, but the man makes the position."

"Sympathy doesn't provide food, but it makes hunger more endurable."

"Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of."

"Taxes grow without rain"

"Tell your secret only to one in a thousand."

"Sympathy is a little medicine to soothe the ache in another's heart."

"Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know."