A bad wife spells a hundred years of bad harvest.

More Japanese Proverbs

• Don’t offer things to people who are incapable of appreciating them.
• Life without endeavours is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands.
• Not seeing is a flower.
• One kind word can warm three winter months.
• If you understand everything you must be misinformed.
• Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
• Of flowers, the cherry blossom; of men, the warrior.
• Even when months and days are long, life is short.
• Gold coins to a cat.
• A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.
• Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
• Even monkeys fall from trees.
• Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.
• Fall down seven times, get up eight times.
• Take a bad or desperate situation and turn it into a successful one.
• Dumplings rather than flowers.
• A merchant’s happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves.
• Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still.
• Everyone has their own tastes. Respect others.
• Reality is never as good as your imagination.
• Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.
• Be humble. Even an expert can make mistakes.
• If you make a mistake, don’t hesitate to correct it.
• Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
• Money grows on the tree of persistence.
• He who runs after two hares will catch neither.