When you make a vow to God, do not delay in paying it. For God takes no pleasure in fools: Pay what you vow!

Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell the priest, "It was a mistake!" Why make God angry at you so that he would destroy the work of your hands?"

Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

Everyone shares the same fate -- the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.

One dead fly makes the perfumer's ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.

I have seen another misfortune on the earth: It is an error a ruler makes.

Feasts are made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.