777 Japanese Proverbs / Page 21
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Life is a candle before the wind.402.
Life is a long journey with a heavy bag on its back.403.
Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.404.
Life is the source of all things.405.
Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands.406.
Life's not all beer and skittles.407.
Life? That is a candle in the wind; frost upon a roof; the twitching of the fish in a pan.408.
Like a buddha met with in hell.409.
Like a millstone dressed in a kimono.410.
Like trying to put a comb upon the nun's head.411.
Look for a thrifty woman -- even though it may cost you a pair of shoes.412.
Looking up we are not ashamed in the presence of heaven, nor bowing down are we ashamed in the presence of earth.413.
Love and a cough cannot be hidden.414.
Love lives in palaces as well as in thatched cottages.415.
Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun.416.
Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.417.
Making money is like digging with a needle.418.
Man and wife are one flesh.419.
Man is the instrument of illness.420.
Man longs to see that which he is afraid to see.