Reality is never as good as your imagination.

More Japanese Proverbs

• The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
• You reap what you sow.
• The smallest, good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
• The stake that sticks up gets hammered down.
• We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
• One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
• If money is not thy servant, it will be thy master.
• Not knowing is Buddha.
• One kind word can warm three winter months.
• 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.
• Even when months and days are long, life is short.
• 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.
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
• 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.
• Take a bad or desperate situation and turn it into a successful one.
• Even monkeys fall from trees.
• Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.
• Fall down seven times, get up eight times.
• Everyone has their own tastes. Respect others.
• Dumplings rather than flowers.
• A merchant’s happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves.