I will master something, then the creativity will come.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Creativity
When your companions get drunk and fight, Take up your hat, and wish them good night.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Unhappiness can be a bridge to happiness.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Happiness
To be over-polite is to be rude.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Politeness
There is no escape from heaven’s web.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Heaven
Poor men sleep the best.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Even in hell you meet relations.
—Japanese Proverb
He is poor who does not feel content.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Appreciation, Gratitude, Blessings
When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Parents
Heroes cannot stand side by side.
—Japanese Proverb
There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Imagination
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Knowledge, Book, Wisdom
Adversity is the foundation of virtue
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Adversity
Every meeting is the beginning of a good-bye.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Beginning
If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Praise
Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kaze
Clouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Luck
You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Wisdom
It is no use cutting a stick when the fight is over.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Fighting
The nail that stands out will be hammered down.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Protest
Fall down seven times, get up eight times.
—Japanese Proverb
The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Negotiation, Business
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Kings
When ten thousand soldiers lie rotting, the general’s reputation is enhanced.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Reputation
Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Home
Failure teaches success.
—Japanese Proverb
Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Money
One kind word can warm three winter months.
—Japanese Proverb
Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Admiration
The lawyer will extend the frontiers of a fight.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Lawyers
We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat.
—Japanese Proverb
Topics: Defeat
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