The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.
Sayings from the TalmudT
Use your best vessel to-day; by to-morrow it may be broken.
A donkey will complain of the cold in midsummer.
The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes.
Step down in choosing a wife; step up in choosing a friend.
Throw no stones into the well that gives you water.
Repent of your sins the day before you die.
A small coin in a large jar makes much noise.
The wine is the master’s, but the serving-man is thanked for it.
The cat and the rat are friends over a carcass.
Truth is burdensome; few have inclination to carry it.
This world is the waiting-room to the next.
If it were not for a man’s passions, he would neither build a house, marry a wife, beget children, nor work.
Keep away from well-meaning fools.
It is better to be a lion’s tail than a fox’s head.
Silence is the hedge that guards wisdom.
Too many captains sink the ship.
One man says grace, another eats.
If a thief is wanting for an opportunity, he believes himself an honest man.
A man will see anybody’s leprosy but his own.
Not what you say of yourself is accepted, but what your friends say.