413 Sayings of Japanese Origin
1. "Don't call in the doctor after the funeral." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
2. "Disgrace is like the grain of a tree trunk, time makes it bigger instead of erasing it." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
3. "Instead of worrying, a strong man wears a smile." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
4. "Adversity is the foundation of virtue." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
5. "Wine is water adulterated by foolish talk." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
6. "When someone is really hungry, then there is no such thing as “bad food”." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
7. "Only when the coffin is closed will we see how long lasting is the name." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
8. "If there is a lid that doesn't fit, then there is a lid that does. To a person that does not wander, there is not enlightenment. Fall seven times, stand up eight." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
9. "Affinity is a mysterious thing, but it is spicy!" (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
10. "To the starving man the beauty of Fujiyama has no meaning." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
11. "A proposal without patience breaks its own heart." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
12. "It is better to be ignorant than mistaken." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
13. "Generals conquer, soldiers are killed." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
14. "He who is too servile ruins his back." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
15. "A bath refreshes the body, tea refreshes the mind." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
16. "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
17. "The hen tells the cock to crow." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
18. "One cannot scoop up the ocean with a sea shell." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
19. "Control your emotion or it will control you." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
20. "No road is too long in the company of a friend." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
21. "Don't scratch your shoe when it's your foot that itches." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
22. "A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
23. "Every fashion goes out of style." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
24. "The devil was good looking at eighteen." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
25. "The turtle underestimates the value of fast feet." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
26. "A gilt-edged visiting card often hides an ugly face." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
27. "An excess of courtesy is discourtesy." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
28. "God lives in an honest heart." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
29. "A three inch tongue, the iron bulwark of politics." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
30. "Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
31. "Even a sheet of paper has two sides." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
32. "An accomplishment sticks to a person." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
33. "Serve your neighbors as you would be served yourself." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
34. "Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
35. "I have no set principles; I make adaptability to all circumstances my principle." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
36. "He, who insults another, digs two graves." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
37. "He is poor who does not feel content." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
38. "Pursue your duties and don't let them pursue you." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
39. "If you wish to learn the highest truth, begin with the alphabet." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
40. "There is no such thing as bad food when you are really hungry." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
41. "Thirty-six plans of how to win the battle are not so good as one plan to withdraw from the fight." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
42. "A good cat does not need a collar of gold." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
43. "Even a fool knows the glow of gold." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
44. "He who makes the first bad move always loses the game." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
45. "The person who admits ignorance shows it once; the one who tries to hide it shows it often." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
46. "Wealth gets in the way of wisdom." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
47. "Transactions in Hell also depend upon money." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
48. "Faith can move mountains." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
49. "Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
50. "Once conquered, always a traitor." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
51. "Where profit is, loss is hiding nearby." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
52. "The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
53. "You should climb Mount Fujiyama once in your life. Climb it twice and you're a fool." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
54. "The eye that is still says more than a chattering mouth." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
55. "The fast talker makes mistakes." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
56. "He who is dependent on others must make friends with the dog." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
57. "Boasting begins where wisdom stops." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
58. "Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
59. "Life? That is a candle in the wind; frost upon a roof; the twitching of the fish in a pan." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
60. "Steal goods and you'll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
61. "A fog cannot be dispelled by a fan." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
62. "A silent man is the best one to listen to." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
63. "A lie has no legs but scandalous wings." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
64. "A mended lid to a cracked pan." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
65. "It's better to not read at all than to believe everything you read." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
66. "A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
67. "Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
68. "There are no national frontiers to learning." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
69. "Man longs to see that which he is afraid to see." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
70. "If you wait long enough, it will be good weather." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
71. "Spend words as efficiently as money." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
72. "We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
73. "Books are preserved parts of minds." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
74. "He, who buys useless things, later sells things that he needs." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
75. "The lazy one stands up between one armchair and another." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
76. "Without women there is no day and no night." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
77. "A borrowed cat catches no mice." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
78. "A country can be conquered from the back of a horse but may not be ruled in the same manner." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
79. "The past is the future of the present." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
80. "If the father is a frog, the son will be a frog." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
81. "A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
82. "The lawyer will extend the frontiers of a fight." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
83. "Men and women are never placed too far apart to be near." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
84. "At the bottom of the lighthouse it is dark." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
85. "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." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
86. "An ant's nest could bring down a hill." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
87. "If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the wind blows." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
88. "After three years even a disaster can be good for something." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
89. "He who sits in the shade won't take an axe to the tree." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
90. "If you carry treasure, don't travel at night." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
91. "Plan your life at New Year's eve, your day at dawn." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
92. "Old age cures us of our youth." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
93. "If you have no one else, then confer with your knee." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
94. "If you hate a man, let him live." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
95. "Fall seven times, stand up the eighth." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
96. "Better be proficient in one art than a smattered in a thousand." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
97. "Life is a long journey with a heavy bag on its back." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
98. "If you turn into a dog, be sure to choose a rich family." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
99. "Poor men sleep the best." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
100. "A centipede, though dead, will not fall." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
101. "Even when months and days are long, life is short." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
102. "You can see heaven through the eye of the needle." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
103. "The prettiest of shoes makes a sorry hat." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
104. "Flattery is the best persuader of people." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
105. "Nothing so visible than what you want to hide." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
106. "I have no friends; I make my mind my friend." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
107. "We are no more than candles burning in the wind." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
108. "Unspoken words are the flowers of silence." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
109. "The plagiarist turns the body inside-out and changes the bones." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
110. "With such father there is such a child." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
111. "Only he who knows his own weaknesses can endure those of others." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
112. "A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
113. "Many flowers, few fruits." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
114. "Great villainy is often called loyalty." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
115. "Pears and women are the sweetest in the parts that are heaviest." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
116. "The dog that wags its tail won't be beaten." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
117. "Old horses don't forget the way." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
118. "Consider the facts seven times before you suspect someone." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
119. "To ask is a temporary shame; not to ask, an eternal one." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
120. "Fortune will call at the smiling gate." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
121. "Children grow up, with or without parents." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
122. "You warm up something for ten days and it goes cold in one." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
123. "After victory, tighten your helmet chord." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
124. "Alcohol reveals the true heart." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
125. "When you're dying of thirst it's too late to dig a well." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
126. "If you are looking for bad luck, you will soon find it." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
127. "It's awful, I hate it” is hardly the other side of “That is beautiful and I loved it”." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
128. "Yesterday's flowers are today's dreams." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
129. "He who burns his mouth on the soup will blow on a cold fish dish." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
130. "Too much politeness is impertinent." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
131. "Too many hands will row the boat up a mountain." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
132. "Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
133. "Because of their figure, vain women stay cold." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
134. "When someone offends you, you haven't given him enough love." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
135. "Seeing is poison for the eyes." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
136. "Stupidity begins with honesty." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
137. "Money grows on the tree of persistence." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
138. "Never watch a bonfire wearing a straw coat." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
139. "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
140. "Conqueror the self and you will conquer the opponent." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
141. "You can worship a sardine's head if you believe in it." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
142. "Let the past drift away with the water." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
143. "Who can see in the future?" (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
144. "Dumplings are better than flowers." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
145. "Years know more than books." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
146. "The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
147. "If you believe everything you read, you had better not read." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
148. "It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
149. "A good husband is healthy and absent." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
150. "The human heart is neither of stone nor wood." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
151. "A beautiful woman is like an axe in one's life." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
152. "People who are asleep can't fall down." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
153. "The most beautiful flowers flourish in the shade." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
154. "Happiness spring, cleans the heart." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
155. "Say what you have to say, tomorrow." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
156. "Walls have ears, bottles have mouths." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
157. "It is better to write down something once than read it ten times." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
158. "Never judge things of which you only know the shadow." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
159. "The fortune-teller never knows his own." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
160. "One can stand still in a flowing stream, but not in a world of men." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
161. "Old people are everyone's treasures." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
162. "My skirt with tears is always wet, I have forgotten to forget." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
163. "The poor have no time to spare." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
164. "Indifference is a generous kind of intolerance." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
165. "Any ground is good enough to be buried in." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
166. "A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
167. "If the bird hadn't sung, it wouldn't have been shot." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
168. "You won't get sick if you have plenty of work." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
169. "Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
170. "If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
171. "Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
172. "You don't have to die, heaven and hell are in this world too." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
173. "Good things are never cheap." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
174. "Water will always take the form of the vase it fills." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
175. "He who is always right will never get round the world." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
176. "Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
177. "Man is the instrument of illness." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
178. "A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
179. "Better go without medicine than call in an unskilled physician." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
180. "Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
181. "Even the stone you trip on is part of your destiny." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
182. "A woman has many mouths." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
183. "An idiot is eloquent when he stays silent." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
184. "Your years will still remain the same whether you laugh or cry." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
185. "In the eyes of a lover a pock-marked face is one with pretty dimples." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
186. "Don't take seriously the cat who mourns for a mouse." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
187. "If you are eager to be in the shadow, leave your axe at home." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
188. "The pensioner gets the wages of the death." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
189. "Unhappiness can be a bridge to happiness." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
190. "Poor is the person who does not know when he has had enough." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
191. "Drink and sing, the dark night is ahead of us." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
192. "Eggs and promises are easily broken." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
193. "Life is for one generation; a good name is forever." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
194. "Friends are known first in hardships." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
195. "You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
196. "If you are travelling towards the East, you will inevitably move away from the West." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
197. "Life is the source of all things." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
198. "Pick your wife in the kitchen." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
199. "The heaviest rains fall on the house that leaks most." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
200. "Virtue carries an empty purse." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
201. "If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
202. "Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
203. "He who admits to his ignorance shows it once only; he who tries to hide it shows it frequently." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
204. "The consequence is the reward of the cause." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
205. "To teach is to learn." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
206. "Good medicine often has a bitter taste." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
207. "A man who always wears his best kimono has no Sunday clothes." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
208. "First the man takes a drink; then the drink takes a drink; after that the drink takes the man." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
209. "More festive than the feast itself is the day before." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
210. "When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
211. "I have no sword; I make no mind my sword." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
212. "Once dead the good and the bad are covered by the same moss." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
213. "Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
214. "He who is desperate will squeeze oil out of a grain of sand." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
215. "Over-intelligent people can't find friends." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
216. "Never admit that there is a tomorrow." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
217. "The second word makes the fray." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
218. "He who talks to a silent listener will soon stand naked." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
219. "If the skin of your belly is tight, the skin of your eyelids can sleep." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
220. "When the heat has passed, you forget about the shade of trees." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
221. "The talented hawk hides its claws." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
222. "If you do not enter the tiger's cave, you will not catch its cub." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
223. "Growing rice gives you more than poetry will." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
224. "The heart is the most essential human quality." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
225. "The caged bird dreams of clouds." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
226. "If you are in a boat you are more afraid of fire than you are of water." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
227. "The frog in his pond sneers at the ocean." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
228. "The goodness of the father reaches higher than a mountain; that of the mother goes deeper than the ocean." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
229. "After three years useless things are useful too." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
230. "Money has no ears but it hears; no legs but it walks." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
231. "Even if you hide yourself from the world, don't lose sight of your real nature." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
232. "Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
233. "A fallen blossom never returns to the branch." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
234. "The fruit of a tree falls to its root." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
235. "A crying child thrives." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
236. "Lazy people have no spare time." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
237. "Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
238. "Silence makes irritation grow." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
239. "Invalids live the longest." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
240. "Respect old people, and be gentle with children." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
241. "The acolyte at the gate reads scriptures he has never learned." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
242. "Though the blind man cannot see it, light remains light." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
243. "Fear blows wind into your sails." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
244. "A dead cherry tree will not blossom." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
245. "There is no medicine for a fool." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
246. "Poets know all about famous places without having been there." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
247. "Sometimes it takes only an hour to get a reputation that lasts for a thousand years." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
248. "If you run after two hares, you will catch neither." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
249. "Don't take a golden sword to cut a radish." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
250. "When the moon is full, it begins to wane." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
251. "Fools and knives require good handling." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
252. "Control of mental conduct, not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
253. "Better to write down something one time than to read something ten times." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
254. "Truth often comes out of a joke." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
255. "One joy can drive away a hundred sorrows." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
256. "If the blind leads the blind, they both fall into the ditch." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
257. "A man of straw is still a man." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
258. "It is useful to first see the spark before the fire." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
259. "He who talks to a silent listener will soon stand naked." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
260. "The sparrow flying behind the hawk thinks the hawk is fleeing." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
261. "Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
262. "The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men look for it in what is remote." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
263. "He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
264. "Do not stay too long when the husband is not home." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
265. "If you are going to sit on it for three years, the seat will certainly get warm." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
266. "Too much is worse than too little." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
267. "The head of a monkey, the headdress of a prince." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
268. "Flattery is the best persuader." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
269. "You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
270. "Abuse often starts with praise." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
271. "Beginning is easy, to keep going is hard." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
272. "Absent friends get further away every day." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
273. "There are old men of three years old and children of a hundred." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
274. "When you do something wholeheartedly, you are not in need of helpers." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
275. "He who wears a smile instead of worrying is always the strongest." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
276. "How good at combing is the bald priest." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
277. "It is no use cutting a stick when the fight is over." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
278. "There is no coincidence in getting married." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
279. "The matchmaker always asks for too much money for his eight hundred lies." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
280. "One who eats plain food is healthy." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
281. "Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
282. "The go-between wears out a thousand sandals." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
283. "The speaker may well be a fool but the listener is wise." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
284. "A boat that is not tied up will drift along with the stream." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
285. "You can only endure the weaknesses of others by knowing your own." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
286. "The inarticulate speak longest." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
287. "If you love your son, let him travel." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
288. "Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
289. "When ten thousand soldiers lie rotting, the general's reputation is enhanced." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
290. "Eat before falling in love." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
291. "The mouth of a man is a terrible opening." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
292. "If her works for you, you work for him." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
293. "He is rich who knows when he has enough." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
294. "Making money is like digging with a needle." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
295. "The mouth is the door of evil." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
296. "He who smells does not know it himself." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
297. "Grief itches but scratching it makes it worse." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
298. "Sorrow is the seed of wealth." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
299. "What is good is not necessarily beautiful." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
300. "Ten men, ten minds." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
301. "Even in hell you meet relations." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
302. "Every meeting is the beginning of a good-bye." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
303. "The unscrupulous succeed every time." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
304. "Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
305. "When there are two fires in one room, only one will smoke." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
306. "Deceive the rich and powerful, if you will, but don't insult them." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
307. "Where there is laughter happiness likes to be." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
308. "If you respect others, others will respect you." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
309. "With many little strokes a large tree is felled." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
310. "Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable; cold looks and cold words aren't." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
311. "You have to bow a few times before you can stand upright." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
312. "If you are going to fall it's muddy everywhere." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
313. "The taste of cold water after drinking, is a pleasure that the teetotaler will never know." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
314. "Put faith in your own abilities and not in the stars." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
315. "The absent get further off every day." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
316. "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
317. "If you are going out for a fight leave your best hat at home." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
318. "The gods just laugh when men pray to them for wealth." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
319. "Walls have ears, paper sliding doors have eyes." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
320. "Bad and good are intertwined like rope." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
321. "Silent worms dig holes in the walls." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
322. "If every day was a sunny day, who would not wish for rain?" (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
323. "Don't tell others to do what you cannot do." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
324. "Victims of the same disease have a lot to talk about." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
325. "The dog called “Sorrow,” without eating, will be fat in every house." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
326. "We learn by watching and listening." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
327. "When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
328. "One kind word can warm three winter months." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
329. "A man can endure the worst pain, of others." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
330. "To endure what is unendurable is true endurance." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
331. "The guest who seeks special attention muddies the host's tea." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
332. "Advertising is the mother of trade." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
333. "The character of a man lies not in his body but in his soul." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
334. "A fish gets bigger when it gets away." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
335. "A good religion does not need miracles." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
336. "A powerful man has big ears." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
337. "Better to wash an old kimono than borrow a new one." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
338. "Common sense is essential." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
339. "The stake that sticks out gets hammered down." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
340. "Wisdom is lost in a fat man's body." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
341. "The child who died too soon was always beautiful and intelligent." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
342. "The lotus flower blooms in the mud." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
343. "When you are looking upwards you see no frontiers." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
344. "He who wants what God wants of him will lead a free and happy life." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
345. "When you talk about future happenings the devil starts to laugh." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
346. "The spendthrift beats his money as if it were a carpet." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
347. "It's better to lie a little than to be unhappy." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
348. "If you think about things too long, good thoughts will disappear." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
349. "Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
350. "A monkey makes fun of the red behinds of his fellow monkeys." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
351. "It is easy to die, the difficulty lies in living." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
352. "When you have a good government the grass will grow over your troubles." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
353. "Day has its eyes, night has its ears." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
354. "You can't straighten a snake by putting it in a bamboo cane." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
355. "Good luck in business is like the froth on an ox's face." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
356. "Great talents mature late." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
357. "In strategy, secrecy is highly regarded." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
358. "As soon as stones can swim, leaves will sink." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
359. "Every little yielding to anxiety is a step away from the natural heart of man." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
360. "Women's quarrels cause the men's wars." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
361. "Quiet worms will bore a hole in the wall." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
362. "Suspicion bears dark devils." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
363. "After the fight both parties give each other a good smack." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
364. "The hard road turns the traveller into the same dust that he has to swallow." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
365. "Look for a thrifty woman, even though it may cost you a pair of shoes." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
366. "The reverse side also has a reverse side." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
367. "A joke is often the hole through which truth whistles." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
368. "He who has gold is served by the devil." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
369. "Great deeds come from times of shortage." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
370. "To receive a favor is to sell one's liberty." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
371. "A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
372. "When a girl in the teahouse smiles at you, look the other way." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
373. "There is no such thing as dirty clothes when it is cold." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
374. "Time waits for no one." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
375. "One moment of intense happiness prolongs life by a thousand years." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
376. "Where there is fish, there is water." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
377. "He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
378. "Even thinking about sexual pleasure has its roots in greed." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
379. "The tongue is more to be feared than the sword." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
380. "If you make love in the shade you get cold." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
381. "Cupidity has no peak." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
382. "There is no escape from heaven's web." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
383. "Hidden virtues ring like a soft bell." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
384. "Do not prophesy to the man who can see further than you can." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
385. "To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
386. "No one buys what he recommends himself." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
387. "A foolish bird fouls her own nest." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
388. "Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
389. "Depend on your walking stick, not on other people." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
390. "As soon as a man leaves his house he has seven enemies." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
391. "Large trees are envied by the wind." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
392. "A dying man discovers the honesty with which he was born." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
393. "He who knows not when he has enough, is poor." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
394. "Poetry moves heaven and earth." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
395. "No one was ever hurt by laughter." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
396. "Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
397. "Great trees are envied by the wind." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
398. "Spending it is like pouring water into sand." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
399. "Truthful words are seldom pleasant." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
400. "The sack of longing has no bottom." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
401. "The day you decide to do it is your lucky day." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
402. "The day you decide to do it is your lucky day." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
403. "The smaller the margin, the greater the turnover." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
404. "When you are polite, the others think they are wearing flowers." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
405. "Apply fitting ability in the fitting place." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
406. "It is better to be the head of a chicken than the rear of an ox." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
407. "Virtue is not knowing but doing." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
408. "Under a powerful general there are no feeble soldiers." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
409. "Character can be built on daily routine." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
410. "Who cares if a crow is male or female?" (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
411. "Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
412. "To know and to act are one and the same." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
413. "It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living." (Japanese Sayings) Click to tweet
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