551 Yiddish Proverbs / Page 14
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If you can't bite, better not show your teeth.262.
If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.263.
If you can't endure the bad, you'll not live to witness the good.264.
If you can't go over, go under.265.
If you can't go over, you must go under.266.
If you cannot bite, don't show your teeth.267.
If you don't toil, you won't eat.268.
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.269.
If you eat your bagel, you'll have nothing in your pocket but the hole.270.
If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.271.
If you find your friend on the sofa at home with your wife, you had better sell the sofa.272.
If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything.273.
If you keep on talking, you will end up saying what you didn't intend to say.274.
If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall.275.
If you lose your self-respect, you also lose the respect of others.276.
If you play with a cat, you must not mind her scratch.277.
If you pray for another, you will be helped yourself.278.
If you put in you can take out.279.
If you seek a reputation for wisdom, agree with everyone.280.
If you start thinking of death, you are no longer sure of life.