777 Japanese Proverbs / Page 6
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An idiot is eloquent when he stays silent.102.
Any ground is good enough to be buried in.103.
Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better.104.
Apply fitting ability in the fitting place.105.
Art is the illusion of spontaneity.106.
As soon as a man leaves his house he has seven enemies.107.
As soon as stones can swim, leaves will sink.108.
As though a bird had flown up from under your feet.109.
As to flowers, when half open; as to sake, when a person is half tipsy.110.
At a distance enjoy the fragrance of flowers.111.
At the bottom of the lighthouse it is dark.112.
At the first cup man drinks wine, at the second wine drinks wine, at the third wine drinks man.113.
Bad and good are intertwined like rope.114.
Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy.115.
Beaten with his own rod.116.
Beauty is skin deep.117.
Because of their figure, vain women stay cold.118.
Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.119.
Beginning is easy -- to keep going is hard.120.
Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a thousand.