Interesting Nippon Proverbs     Last updated on 2014/2558 9 8, a full moon day;

Approx. 58+ interesting Nippon proverbs are available to read ...;

- A good Jack makes a good Jill. = Man and wife are of one mind and one flesh.
- A good talker wins.
- A hungry man is an angry man.
- A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have peace.
- A man without money is a body without the soul.
- A man without money is no man at all.
- A man’s destiny is always dark.
- A word is enough for a wise man.
- As firm as a rock.

- Be more cautious of a woman than you would be of a snake.
- Beautiful words lack sincerity.
- Better speak truth rudely than lie covertly.

- Children and fools cannot lie. = Children and fools are honest.

- Dying men speak true.

- Easier said than done.
- Everyone is a master and a servant. = Being the boss is not much different from being bossed.

- Fools build houses and wise men live in them.
- Friends agree best at distance.

- Great fortune brings with it great misfortunes.

- It is the best for man to be trained among men, and for a field to be in the midst of other fields.

- Lend your money and lose your friend.
- Life is a pilgrimage. = It is impossible to tell where the water will flow and where man’s future will lead.
- Love is full of fear. = Love brings constant care and worry.
- Love makes the world go round.
- Love me little and love me long.
- Love needs no teaching.

- Man is but a bubble.
- Marriage is a lottery. = Marriage is destiny.
- Marriages are made in heaven.
- Men love to hear well of themselves.
- Money talks. = Money controls even the order of hell.
- Money will do anything. = Money makes marriage.

- Nature is the true law.
- Never judge by appearances.
- Nurture is above nature.

- Old men are children twice.
- Once a priest, always a priest.

- Patient men wins the day. = Patient is a virtue.
- Pride is the dead end of success.

- Ready money is a ready medicine. = Gold lengthens life.

- Samurai never tells a lie.
- Second thoughts are best.
- Seeing is believing. Words are but winds.
- Speech is silver, silence is golden.

- That thing which is rare is dear.
- The best things may be abused.
- The end of money is the end of love.
- The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. = Men of learning are usually poor.
- Too far east is west.
- Truth is the truth. = Facts are stubborn things.

- Use your wisdom little by little.

- Walls have ears.
- When in Rome , do as the Romans do.
- When you learn, keep a calm sough.
- Where there is a will, there is a way. = Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
- While there’s life there’s wind.
- Women are as changeable as the wind.

- You cannot teach an old dog, new tricks.

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2553 aka 2009, compiled by Thuta, in New York, USA.

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