My Grandmother's Yiddish Sayings & Quotes

I need it like a hole in the head (Ikh darf es vi a lokh in kop)

Beware of your friends, not your enemies (Hit zikh far di fraynd, nit far di faynt.)

Don't know me a teakettle (Hak mir nisht ken tshaynik)
Stop going on and on about the same one thing all the time.

Go threaten geese (Gey strashe di gens)

Tasty is the fish on someone else's table (Geshmak iz der fish fun yenems tish)

Thieves and those in love both love darkness (Ganovim un farlibte hobn lib fintsternish)

At a distance you fool others, close at hand just yourself (Fun vaytn nart men laytn, fun neont zikh aleyn)

From bad matches, come good children (Fun krume shidukhim kumen aroys glaykhe kinder.)

From envy grows hate. (Fun kine vert sine.)

From an old maid, you get a faithful wife (Fun an alte moid vert a getraye vayb)


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