Even thinking about sexual pleasure has its roots in greed.
—Japanese Proverb
If you are going out for a fight leave your best hat at home.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Fighting, Home
Poetry moves heaven and earth.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Heaven
The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
—Japanese Proverb
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Love
A good religion does not need miracles.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Miracles
He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Goals, Aspirations
Numerous words show scanty wares.
—Japanese Proverb
Where there is laughter happiness likes to be.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Happiness
The past is the future of the present.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Past, Future
Advertising is the mother of trade.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Advertising
I will master something, then the creativity will come.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Creativity
When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Parents
Unspoken words are the flowers of silence.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Silence
Silence makes irritation grow.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Silence
The human heart is neither of stone nor wood.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Heart
To be over-polite is to be rude.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Politeness
To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Luck
If he works for you, you work for him.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Service
It’s better to lie a little than to be unhappy.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Lies
Adversity is the foundation of virtue
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Adversity
A man’s heart changes as often as does the autumn sky.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Heart, Change
Unless you enter the tiger’s den you cannot take the cubs.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Risk, Danger
When ten thousand soldiers lie rotting, the general’s reputation is enhanced.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Reputation
Money grows on the tree of patience.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
The most beautiful flowers flourish in the shade.
—Japanese Proverb
If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Praise, Proverbs
Children grow up, with or without parents.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Parents
When your companions get drunk and fight, Take up your hat, and wish them good night.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
He is poor who does not feel content.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Gratitude, Appreciation, Blessings