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- 028 出る杭は打たれる The stake that sticks out gets hammered down.
- 034 笑う門には福来る Fortune comes to homes that laugh.
- 036 類は友を呼ぶ Like calls to like.
- 037 朱に交われば赤くなる Touch vermilion and you turn red.
- 038 情けは人のためならず Kindness is never wasted.
- 039 遠くの親戚より近くの他人 A close neighbor beats a distant relative.
- 041 蛙の子は蛙 The child of a frog is a frog.
- 049 十人十色 Ten people, ten colors.
- 050 蓼食う虫も好き好き Some insects even relish the bitter knotweed.
- 052 郷に入っては郷に従え In the village, follow the village ways.
- 053 旅は道連れ世は情け On a journey, a companion; in life, kindness.
- 054 可愛い子には旅をさせよ Send the child you cherish on a journey.
- 055 親の心子知らず The child does not know the parent's heart.
- 056 子は鎹 A child is the clamp of the home.
- 057 目は口ほどに物を言う The eyes speak as much as the mouth.
- 058 口は災いの元 The mouth is the source of misfortune.
- 059 言わぬが花 Not saying is the flower.
- 060 良薬は口に苦し Good medicine is bitter in the mouth.
- 062 人は見かけによらぬもの People are not what they seem.
- 068 一期一会 One life, one meeting.
- 077 雨降って地固まる After the rain, the ground hardens.
- 090 我が身をつねって人の痛さを知れ Pinch yourself to know another's pain.
- 091 魚心あれば水心 If the fish loves the water, the water will love the fish.
- 092 持ちつ持たれつ Carrying each other.
- 099 損して得取れ Accept a loss to gain later.
- 107 物言えば唇寒し秋の風 As soon as words are spoken, the lips feel cold — autumn wind.
- 113 一寸の虫にも五分の魂 Even a one-inch insect has half an inch of spirit.
- 124 敵に塩を送る Sending salt to one's enemy.
- 131 切磋琢磨 Carving and polishing one another.
- 139 誠心誠意 With whole heart, in full sincerity.
- 141 和を以て貴しとなす Hold harmony as the precious thing.
- 146 渡る世間に鬼はない Across the wide world, there are no demons.
- 147 馬が合う Getting along like rider and horse.
- 148 竹馬の友 Friends of the bamboo stilts.
- 149 船頭多くして船山に上る Too many boatmen pull the boat up the mountain.
- 164 雀の子そこのけそこのけお馬が通る Little sparrows, make way, make way! The horse is passing.
- 165 朝顔に釣瓶とられてもらい水 A morning glory has claimed my well bucket — I beg water next door.
- 166 名月を取ってくれろと泣く子かな "Catch me the moon!" cries the child.
- 173 正直は一生の宝 Honesty is the treasure of a lifetime.
- 181 秋深き隣は何をする人ぞ Deep autumn — my neighbor, how does he live?
- 201 人は城、人は石垣、人は堀 People are the castle, people are the walls, people are the moat.
- 208 水に流す Let the water carry it away.
- 215 行く春や鳥啼き魚の目は泪 Departing spring — birds cry, and there are tears in the eyes of fish.
- 217 初しぐれ猿も小蓑をほしげ也 First winter rain — the monkey too seems to wish for a little straw coat.
- 222 我と来て遊べや親のない雀 Come and play with me, sparrow without parents.
- 223 やれ打つな蠅が手をすり足をする Don't swat it! The fly wrings its hands, wrings its feet.
- 236 適材適所 The right timber in the right place.
- 239 単刀直入 Entering alone, blade drawn, straight to the point.
- 243 呉越同舟 Enemies of Wu and Yue in the same boat.
- 244 疑心暗鬼 Suspicion fills the dark with phantoms.
- 253 二人三脚 Two people, three legs.
- 260 立て板に水 Water on an upright board.
- 261 馬耳東風 Spring wind in a horse's ears.
- 264 会うは別れの始め To meet is to begin to part.
- 270 目は心の鏡 The eyes are the mirror of the heart.
- 273 世間は広いようで狭い The world seems wide, and it is small.
- 274 明日は我が身 Tomorrow, it may be me.
- 277 笑いは人の薬 Laughter is people's medicine.
- 284 己の欲せざる所は人に施すことなかれ Do not do to others what you would not wish for yourself.
- 298 天は人の上に人を造らず人の下に人を造らず Heaven creates no man above other men, nor any man below.