English equivalent: "No smoke without fire", or "Where there's smoke, there's fire".
"There is no effect without some cause. also It is supposed that if there is a rumour, there must be some truth behind it."
Paczolay, Gyula(1997)."1".European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese. Veszprémi Nyomda. p.33. ISBN 1-875943-44-7.
רכלן(1990).אין עשן בלי אש: חבורת מדע. {$[$}Alpha{$]$} נומרי.
אל תסתכל בקנקן, אלא במה שבתוכו
Al tistakel baqanqan, ela bemah shebetokho
Don't look at the jar, but at what's inside it.
Meaning: Don't be fooled by external appearances - find the real value.
English equivalent: Don't judge a book by its cover.
אשרת, הייזנר(1998).ישראל חברה רב־תרבותית: חינוך לסובלנות וכבוד האדם. אח. p.83.
Better be a tail for the lions than the head of the foxes
Yehuda{\_}Publish{\_}1st. p.251.
Meaning: It is better to be a minor member of a good group, than a prominent leader of a bad one.
טובה ציפור אחת ביד משתיים על העץ
Tova Tzipor Ahath Bayad Mishtayim Al Ha'etz
One bird in the hand is better than two on the tree.
English equivalent: Better is one bird in the hand than two in the bush.
Meaning: "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."
בבי(1988).המחתרת הציונית־חלוצית בעיראק: 1944-1945:. מכון בן־צבי. p.545.
על דאטפת אטפוך וסוף מטיפייך - יטופון (Mishnah Avot 2,7)
'Al d'ateft atfu'kh, v'sof m'tifaikh ytufun
Because you have drowned others, you were drowned — and in the end, those who drowned you will be drowned.
Meaning: Sins shall be punished, but people are not allowed to take the law into their own hands. or what you do to others will come back at you (some sort of karma)
שפירא(1998).ספרה מאור שבתורה. ש.צ. בןב. הכהן שפירא.
צוחק מי שצוחק אחרון
Tsoheq mi shetsoheq aharon
laughs he who laughs last.
"Your laugh is of the sardonic kind."
Caius Gracchus, when his adversaries laughed at his defeat, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 428-30
טסלר(2007).שירים במדים: סיפורן של הלהקות הצבאיות. יד יצחק בן צבי. p.292.
צרות באות בצרורות
Tsaroth ba'oth bitsro'oth
troubles come in packs.
English equivalent: Misery loves company.
Corollaries:
צרה צרורה
Tsarah Tsrurah
a packed trouble.
ניר, ניר(1989).מבוא לבלשנות. האוניברסיטה הפתוחה. p.78. proverbs in Hebrew (misle) which mean Solomaon Proverbs.
תפסת מרובה - לא תפסת
Tafasta Merubeh - Lo Tafasta
(sort of) Caught lots - got nothing.
English equivalent: Grasp all, lose all.
Meaning: if one tries to achieve too many goals at once, he'll achieve none or few of them.
לנדאו(1879).ספר ציון לנפש חיה: צלח. בדפוסי. בןי. הכהן אלפין. p.58.
.נפלה האבן על הקדרה, אוי לקדרה. נפלה הקדרה על האבן, אוי לקדרה
The stone fell on the pitcher? Woe to the pitcher. The pitcher fell on the stone? Woe to the pitcher. (This is from Cervantes' Don Quixote. Was it a Hebrew proverb before that? What is the cite or authority?)
Esther Rabbah 7:10, quoted in Lewis Browne: The Wisdom of Israel, an Anthology
בכל החזיתות שאנו מטילים על אחרים אנחנו מדגימים את הפוטנציאל שלנו, דרך הילדים שלנו אנחנו מגלים את המציאות שלנו. - לורנס קלמן, כדי ללבות עמ 'נשמה
In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.