Japanese Proverbs (759 Proverbs)
- Grief itches but scratching it makes it worse.
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- Even a fool knows the glow of gold.
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- Better to write down something one time than to read something ten times.
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- After three years useless things are useful too.
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- A man of straw is still a man.
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- You should climb Mount Fujiyama once in your life. Climb it twice and you're a fool.
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- When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell.
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- We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
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- Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
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- The smaller the margin, the greater the turnover.
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- The head of a monkey, the headdress of a prince.
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- Steal goods and you'll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
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- One kind word can warm three winter months.
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- Men and women are never placed too far apart to be near.
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- It is no use cutting a stick when the fight is over.
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- If you make love in the shade you get cold.
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- If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.
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- He who sits in the shade won't take an axe to the tree.
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- Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.
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- Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers.
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- Better to wash an old kimono than borrow a new one.
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- After three years even a disaster can be good for something.
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- A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.
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- You have to bow a few times before you can stand upright.
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- When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.
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- Water will always take the form of the vase it fills.
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- Though the blind man cannot see it, light remains light.
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- The reverse side also has a reverse side.
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- The hard road turns the traveller into the same dust that he has to swallow.
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- Spending it is like pouring water into sand.
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- One joy can drive away a hundred sorrows.
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- Man longs to see that which he is afraid to see.
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- It is easy to die -- the difficulty lies in living.
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- If you love your son, make him leave home.
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- If neither animal nor vegetable you be, then mineral you are.
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- He who makes the first bad move always loses the game.
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- Good luck in business is like the froth on an ox's face.
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- Drink and sing: the dark night is ahead of us.
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- Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home.
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- After the fight both parties give each other a good smack.
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- A man can endure the worst pain -- of others.
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- You don't have to die: heaven and hell are in this world too.
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- When you have a good government the grass will grow over your troubles.
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- Walls have ears, paper sliding doors have eyes.
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- Thirty-six plans of how to win the battle are not so good as one plan to withdraw from the fight.
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- The prettiest of shoes makes a sorry hat.
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- The guest who seeks special attention muddies the host's tea.
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- Sometimes it takes only an hour to get a reputation that lasts for a thousand years.
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- One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at their collars.
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- Making money is like digging with a needle.
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- It is better to be the head of a chicken than the rear of an ox.
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- If you have no one else, then confer with your knee.
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- If my shirt knew my design, I'd burn it.
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- He who knows not when he has enough, is poor.
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- Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand.
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- Don't tell others to do what you cannot do.
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- Better go without medicine than call in an unskilled physician.
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- Affinity is a mysterious thing, but it is spicy!
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- A joke is often the hole through which truth whistles.
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- You can't straighten a snake by putting it in a bamboo cane.
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- When you do something wholeheartedly, you are not in need of helpers.
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- Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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- There is no such thing as dirty clothes when it is cold.
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- The plagiarist turns the body inside-out and changes the bones.
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- The goodness of the father reaches higher than a mountain; that of the mother goes deeper than the ocean.
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- Serve your neighbors as you would be served yourself.
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- One cannot scoop up the ocean with a sea shell.
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- Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.
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- It is better to be ignorant than mistaken.
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- If you hate a man, let him live.
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- If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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- He who is too servile ruins his back.
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- Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
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- Don't take seriously the cat who mourns for a mouse.
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- Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a thousand.
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- A wild goose may be worth a hundred pieces of gold, but you first have to spend three pieces of gold to buy an arrow.
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- A good sword is the one left in its scabbard.
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- Too much politeness is impertinent.
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- Transactions in Hell also depend upon money.
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- Truthful words are seldom pleasant.
(Japanese Proverb)
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