Japanese proverbs

If the fountainhead is clear, the stream will be clear.
Japanese proverb

A fruit-bearing tree is known by its flowers.
Japanese proverb

An evil act runs a thousand miles.
Japanese proverb

The flow of water and the future of human beings are uncertain.
Japanese proverb

The spirit of a three-year-old lasts a hundred years.
Japanese proverb

A faithful wife does not marry again.
Japanese proverb

It's hard to know the quality of a person, or a watermelon.
Japanese proverb

A frog in the well knows not the ocean.
Japanese proverb

Business and folding screens must be crooked to stand.
Japanese proverb

A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
Japanese proverb

A full belly is not the stomach of a scholar.
Japanese proverb

Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
Japanese proverb

Children learn from their parents.
Japanese proverb

At a distance enjoy the fragrance of flowers.
Japanese proverb

Big fish do not live in small ponds.
Japanese proverb

A short temper is a disadvantage.
Japanese proverb

A great sage is often taken for a great fool.
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Though you drink wine, do not be drunk by wine.
Japanese proverb

Don't say there's a tomorrow.
Japanese proverb

Fallen flowers do not return to branches; a shattered mirror does not again reflect.
Japanese proverb

A man's heart is as changeable as the skies in autumn.
Japanese proverb

Don't give an order after listening only to one side.
Japanese proverb

Better a stitch now than ten stitches later.
Japanese proverb

Large fish do not live in a small pond.
Japanese proverb

Better to be a chicken's head than an ox's rump.
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Old men for consultation, young men for quarrels.
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Wives and pots and kettles are better when old.
Japanese proverb

Even among intimate friends there should be courtesy.
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There are some gods that abandon men - they are the gods that know men.
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One dog barks an inanity, ten thousand dogs assert its truth.
Japanese proverb

Worse than four hundred and four illnesses is the disease of poverty.
Japanese proverb

Dumplings are better than flowers.
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Eyelashes, though near, are not seen.
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Youth easily grows old yet becomes learned with difficulty.
Japanese proverb

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.
Japanese proverb

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