Japanese Proverbs (2)

• 多く見、多く聞き、而して少し語れ - See much, hear much, but speak a little.


• おごるものは心常に貧しい - A man with extreme pride have poor mind.


• 己の欲せざるところ、人に施す勿れ - Don't do anything what you don't want to be done.


• 己を責めて人を責むるな - Don't blame others but yourself.


• 今日出来ることを明日に延ばすな - Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.


• 思い立ったが吉日 - The best day to start something is the very day you make up your mind to do it.


• 終わり良ければすべて良し- Everything that ends well is all right.


• 栄える家に人集まる - People gather round a prosperous home.


• 先んずれば人を制す - Take the initiative and you will win.


• 笑いは百薬の長 - Laughter is the best medicine.


• 親しき仲にも礼儀あり - There should be courtesy even between close friends.


• 失敗は成功のもと - Failure is base of success.


• 小運は大知に勝る - A little luck is better than a big wisdom.


• 正直の頭に神宿る - God dwells in an honest man's head.


• 小事を軽んずるなかれ - Don't make light of small things.


• 勝敗は武器よりも人に有り - Victory doesn't depend on guns but the men who use them.


• 将を射んとせば馬を射よ - To shoot the general, shoot his horse first.


• 心配は身の毒 - Worry is poisonous.


• 千里の道も一歩から - A journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.


• 備えあれば憂いなし - Be prepared and have no regrets.


• 七転び八起き - Seven falls and eight rises.


• 生兵法は大けがのもと - Crude tactics are the source of grave injury.


• 習うより慣れろ - Don't learn something, but get accustomed to it.


• 二兎を追うものは一兎をも得ず - He that hunts two hares at once will catch neither.


• 蒔かぬ種は生えぬ - No plants come from no seeds sown.


• 待てば海路の日和あり - The sun will shine on a voyager who waits.


• 実る稲穂は頭を垂れる - The ear that bear most rice hang lowest. (modesty)


• 良薬口に苦し - Good medicine tastes bitter.