Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.
Japanese Proverb
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JAPANESE PROVERB Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
JAPANESE PROVERB The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.
JAPANESE PROVERB If he works for you, you work for him.
JAPANESE PROVERB Fall seven times, stand up eight.
JAPANESE PROVERB The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
JAPANESE PROVERB When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.
JAPANESE PROVERB Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
JAPANESE PROVERB You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.
JAPANESE PROVERB A good husband is healthy and absent.
JAPANESE PROVERB Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kaze
Clouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms
JAPANESE PROVERB Duty is heavy as a mountain but
Death is lighter than a feather.
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JAPANESE PROVERB Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
JAPANESE PROVERB The feet are the gateway to 10,000 illnesses.
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JAPANESE PROVERB Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.
JAPANESE PROVERB A kind word can warm three months of winter.
JAPANESE PROVERB If you want to know what's happening in the market, ask the market.
JAPANESE PROVERB The nail that stands out will be hammered down.
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JAPANESE PROVERB Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
JAPANESE PROVERB A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.
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sickness is a thing of the spirit
JAPANESE PROVERB The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
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Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
JAPANESE PROVERB Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
JAPANESE PROVERB The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.
JAPANESE PROVERB If he works for you, you work for him.
JAPANESE PROVERB Fall seven times, stand up eight.
JAPANESE PROVERB The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
JAPANESE PROVERB When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.
JAPANESE PROVERB Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
JAPANESE PROVERB You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.
JAPANESE PROVERB A good husband is healthy and absent.
JAPANESE PROVERB Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kaze
Clouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms
JAPANESE PROVERB Duty is heavy as a mountain but
Death is lighter than a feather.
JAPANESE PROVERB Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.
JAPANESE PROVERB Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
JAPANESE PROVERB The feet are the gateway to 10,000 illnesses.
JAPANESE PROVERB When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead.
JAPANESE PROVERB One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
JAPANESE PROVERB Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.
JAPANESE PROVERB A kind word can warm three months of winter.
JAPANESE PROVERB If you want to know what's happening in the market, ask the market.
JAPANESE PROVERB The nail that stands out will be hammered down.
JAPANESE PROVERB The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
JAPANESE PROVERB If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed yo...
JAPANESE PROVERB Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
JAPANESE PROVERB A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.
JAPANESE PROVERB yamai wa ki kara
sickness is a thing of the spirit
JAPANESE PROVERB The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
JAPANESE PROVERB Fix the problem, not the blame.
JAPANESE PROVERB I will master something, then the creativity will come.
JAPANESE PROVERB Virtue is not knowing but doing
JAPANESE PROVERB He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.
JAPANESE PROVERB An excess of courtesy is discourtesy
JAPANESE PROVERB If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all
JAPANESE PROVERB When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.
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JAPANESE PROVERB Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
JAPANESE PROVERB. One kind word can warm three winter months.
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JAPANESE PROVERB All married women are not wives.
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JAPANESE PROVERB If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise
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JAPANESE PROVERB One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger
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JAPANESE PROVERB A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice
JAPANESE PROVERB In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.
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JAPANESE PROVERB Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse
JAPANESE PROVERB A helpful companion is as good as a coach.
JAPANESE PROVERB Even a sheet of paper has two sides
JAPANESE PROVERB The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone
JAPANESE PROVERB Adversity is the foundation of virtue
JAPANESE PROVERB We learn little from victory, much from defeat
JAPANESE PROVERB If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty
JAPANESE PROVERB Do you need proof of God? Does one light a torch to see the sun?
JAPANESE PROVERB Where there is no antagonist, you cannot quarrel.
JAPANESE PROVERB Sleeping people can't fall down
JAPANESE PROVERB Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names
JAPANESE PROVERB It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive disenchanted
JAPANESE PROVERB Fall seven times and stand up eight.
JAPANESE PROVERB Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
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PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
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PROVERB Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
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PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
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