777 Japanese Proverbs / Page 22
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Many flowers, few fruits.422.
May you live up to one hundred years and i up to ninety-nine.423.
Men and women are never placed too far apart to be near.424.
Money grows on the tree of persistence.425.
Money has no ears but it hears; no legs but it walks.426.
Money has no smell.427.
Money matters make strangers.428.
Moonlight and boiled rice.429.
More festive than the feast itself is the day before.430.
Mountains are not esteemed because they are high, but because they have trees.431.
My skirt with tears is always wet: I have forgotten to forget.432.
My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.433.
Never admit that there is a tomorrow.434.
Never judge things of which you only know the shadow.435.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.436.
Never trust a woman, even if she has borne you seven children.437.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty.438.
Never watch a bonfire wearing a straw coat.439.
No branch is better than its trunk.440.
No one buys what he recommends himself.