The acolyte at the gate reads scriptures he has never learned.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
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When the heat has passed, you forget about the shade of trees.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the wind blows.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
You cannot catch a tiger cub unless you enter the tiger's den.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
When a girl in the teahouse smiles at you, look the other way.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Never trust a woman, even if she has borne you seven children.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about children, woman
It is one life, whether we spend it in laughing or in weeping.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about life
The sparrow flying behind the hawk thinks the hawk is fleeing.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a thousand.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about art, magic
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about dance
Better go without medicine than call in an unskilled physician.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about medicine
When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about gifts, hell
Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Even when a samurai has not eaten, he holds his toothpick high.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
The flow of water and the future of human beings are uncertain.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about human imperfections, future, water
When one dog barks for nothing, all other dogs bark in earnest.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about nothing
The plagiarist turns the body inside-out and changes the bones.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about body
Your years will still remain the same whether you laugh or cry.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
There are old men of three years old and children of a hundred.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about children, man, old, olderness
When you are polite, the others think they are wearing flowers.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about flowers
