Yiddish proverbs

If your heart is bitter, sugar in the mouth won't help.

If we cannot do what we want, we must want what we can.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

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

Provide for the worst; the best can take care of itself.

A boil is fine as long as it's under someone else's arm.

Better a Jew without a beard than a beard without a Jew.

Better a thief for a neighbor than an overzealous rabbi.

If it were God's will, you could shoot with a broom too.

She who wants to marry her stepfather regrets it in bed.

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