777 Japanese Proverbs
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A bad wife is a poor harvest for sixty years.2.
A bad wife is one hundred years of bad harvest.3.
A bath refreshes the body, tea refreshes the mind.4.
A bean-jam rice cake into the open mouth.5.
A beautiful woman is like an axe in one's life.6.
A bee stinging a crying face.7.
A boat that is not tied up will drift along with the stream.8.
A borrowed cat catches no mice.9.
A boy living near a buddhist temple can learn an untaught sutra by heart.10.
A buddha's face when asked three times.11.
A centipede, though dead, will not fall.12.
A clever hawk hides its talons.13.
A coin to a cat.14.
A country can be conquered from the back of a horse but may not be ruled in the same manner.15.
A crooked top on a crooked kettle.16.
A crying child thrives.17.
A dead cherry tree will not blossom.18.
A dog that walks around will find a stick.19.
A dying man discovers the honesty with which he was born.20.
A faithful wife does not marry again.