Even when he has not eaten, a samurai wields his toothpick.
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We can laugh happily with our children, but not with money.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about children, money
Even a superb hawk will not catch game unless it is loosed.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about games
The man who makes the first bad move always loses the game.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about games, bad luck, bad, man
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness, joy, home, house
We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about defeat, victory
It's hard to know the quality of a person, or a watermelon.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about quality, people
You warm up something for ten days and it goes cold in one.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about day
Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about flowers, moon, day
When the cat mourns for the mouse do not take her seriously.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
If a waterwheel exerts itself, it has no time to get frozen.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about time
He who is desperate will squeeze oil out of a grain of sand.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
If you believe everything you read, you had better not read.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about faith
Do not prophesy to the man who can see further than you can.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about man
Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about drawing, water
A boat that is not tied up will drift along with the stream.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
To the partial eyes of a lover, pockmarks seem like dimples.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about eyes
You can't straighten a snake by putting it in a bamboo cane.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
He who eats globefish soup is a fool; so is he who does not.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
After three years even a disaster can be good for something.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about disaster, good, good luck
