ProverbPedia

Japanese Proverb:
The fallen blossom does not return to the branch.

Japanese Proverb:
The bosoms of the wise are the tombs of secrets.

Japanese Proverb:
While there’s fire in one’s cooking-stove guests will never cease to arrive.

Japanese Proverb:
Buy land that slopes toward the centre and marry a girl whose mother is good.

Japanese Proverb:
Put a small fish on the hook to catch a large one.

Japanese Proverb:
One cannot learn to swim in a field.

Japanese Proverb:
Where there’s a beginning there’s an end.

Japanese Proverb:
Better do one act quickly than talk about a hundred for a day.

Japanese Proverb:
It’s no use cutting a stick when the fight is over.

Japanese Proverb:
Never follow on the heels of a sorrow or it may turn back.

Japanese Proverb:
Physic for healing, soup for nourishment, and sakè for happy living.

Japanese Proverb:
Those discontented with their fate will accuse even the sun of partiality.