It is better to be the head of a chicken than the rear of an ox.
More Japanese Proverbs:
When your companions get drunk and fight, Take up your hat, and wish them good night.Japanese
At the bottom of the lighthouse it is dark.
Japanese
When there are two fires in one room, only one will smoke.
Japanese
Virtue is not knowing but doing.
Japanese
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Japanese
You should climb Mount Fujiyama once in your life. Climb it twice and you're a fool.
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