777 Japanese Proverbs / Page 32
621.
The spirit of a three-year-old lasts a hundred years.622.
The spit aimed at the sky comes back to one.623.
The splendor of the rose of sharon is but a day.624.
The spot that makes the warrior benkei cry.625.
The strong will protect the weak and, in return, the weak will serve the strong.626.
The stumbling of a fabulous horse.627.
The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.628.
The taste of cold water after drinking, is a pleasure that the teetotaler will never know.629.
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.630.
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.631.
The tongue of woman is her sword, which never rusts.632.
The turtle underestimates the value of fast feet.633.
The unscrupulous succeed every time.634.
The very thing one likes, one does well.635.
The winds may fell the massive oak, but bamboo, bent even to the ground, will spring upright after the passage of the storm.636.
The world is the world for the world.637.
There are formalities between the closest of friends.638.
There are no national frontiers to learning.639.
There are old men of three years old and children of a hundred.640.
There as many ways of making a living as seeds of grass.