Japanese Proverbs (759 Proverbs)
- Even when a samurai has not eaten, he holds his toothpick high.
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- For rice cakes, go to the rice-cake maker.
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- He who would go a hundred miles should consider ninety-nine as halfway.
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- If you love your son, let him travel.
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- It is foolish to deal with a fool.
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- Like a buddha met with in hell.
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- Old people are everyone's treasures.
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- Overturned water doesn't return to the tray.
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- Small things are lovable.
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- The cherry blossom among flowers, the warrior among men.
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- The man who makes the first bad move always loses the game.
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- The spirit of a three-year-old lasts a hundred years.
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- Time flies like an arrow.
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- Too many boatmen will run the boat up to the top of the mountains.
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- When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there.
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- A faultless person has seven faults, a faulty person forty-eight faults.
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- A short temper is a disadvantage.
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- An eight-sided beauty is coldhearted.
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- Both quarrellers are to be punished.
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- Cooked rice grains sticking to the soles of the feet.
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- Each has his yang chi.
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- Even when he has not eaten, a samurai wields his toothpick.
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- Forgetting your native tongue means forgetting your native country.
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- Heart rather than appearance.
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- If you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.
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- It is one life, whether we spend it in laughing or in weeping.
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- Like a millstone dressed in a kimono.
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- Once we meet and talk, we are brothers and sisters.
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- Parents and children teach one another.
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- Snakes follow the way of serpents.
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- The clog and amida are both from the same piece of wood.
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- The marten is proud where there is no weasel.
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- The spit aimed at the sky comes back to one.
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- To change like the eyes of a cat.
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- Trash accumulates in stagnant water.
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- When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.
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- A fool is only cured by dying.
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- A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
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- An evil act runs a thousand miles.
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- Breeding rather than birth.
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- Count the skins of badgers which haven't been caught.
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- Earthquakes, thunderbolts, fires, fathers.
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- Even when our sleeves brush together it is our karma.
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- Fortunes exist among leftovers.
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- How can swallows and sparrows know the thoughts of a great swan?
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- If you never climb Mt. Fuji, you're a fool, and if you climb it more than once, you're a crazy fool.
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- It is the same life whether we spend it crying or laughing.
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- Like trying to put a comb upon the nun's head.
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- Once you have made a fortune, know how to spend it.
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- People want to avoid the dew before they become wet.
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- Some people like to make of life a garden, and to walk only within its paths.
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- The country is in ruins, and there are still mountains and rivers.
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- The more stupid the child the dearer it is.
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- The splendor of the rose of sharon is but a day.
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- To commit harakiri with a pestle.
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- True patience consists in bearing what is unbearable.
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- Where there is no antagonist, you cannot quarrel.
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- A frog in the well knows not the ocean.
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- A smooth talker is a good-for-nothing person.
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- Apply fitting ability in the fitting place.
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- Brides and mothers-in-law are like dogs and monkeys.
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- Cover the ears and steal the bell.
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- Eggplants do not grow on melon vines.
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- Every worm to his taste.
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- From gods that are left alone, there is no curse.
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- I have no friends; I make my mind my friend.
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- If you respect others, others will respect you.
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- It's better to not read at all than to believe everything you read. The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
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- Looking up we are not ashamed in the presence of heaven, nor bowing down are we ashamed in the presence of earth.
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- One cannot always find a fish under a willow.
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- People with the same disease share sympathy.
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- Some pray to the gods only when in trouble.
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- The cow drinks water and it turns to milk; the snake drinks water and it turns to poison.
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- The more you eat, the more you gain.
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- The spot that makes the warrior benkei cry.
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- To draw water into one's own rice field.
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- Truth often comes out of a joke.
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- Whether to go east or west depends on one's mind or feet.
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- A fruit-bearing tree is known by its flowers.
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- A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses.
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