Life Quotes in Japanese

  • Quotes : If you do not enter the tiger's cave, you will not catch its cub.
    Kanji : 虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず。
    read :Koketsu ni irazunba koji wo ezu
  • Quotes : Thunderclap from a clear sky.
    Kanji : 晴天の霹靂
    read : Seiten no heki-reki
  • Quotes : Even monkeys fall from trees.
    Kanji : 猿も木から落ちる。
    read : Saru mo ki kara ochiru
  • Quotes : There are even bugs that eat knotweed.
    Kanji : 蓼食う虫も好き好き
    read : Tade kuu mushi mo sukizuki
  • Quotes : A frog in a well does not know the great sea.
    Kanji : 井の中の蛙大海を知らず。
    read : I no naka no kawazu taikai wo shirazu
  • Quotes : Spilt water will not return to the tray.
    Kanji : 覆水盆に帰らず。
    read : Fukusui bon ni kaerazu
  • Quotes : One who chases after two hares won't catch even one.
    Kanji : 二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず。
    read : Ni usagi wo ou mono wa ichi usagi wo mo ezu
  • Quotes : An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught.
    Kanji : 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む。
    read : Mon zen no kozō narawanu kyō wo yomu
  • Quotes : Stumbling seven times but recovering eight.
    Kanji : 七転び八起き
    read : nanakorobi yaoki
  • Quotes : Giving birth to a baby is easier than worrying about it.
    Kanji : 案ずるより産むが易し。
    read : Anzuru yori umu ga yasashi
  • Quotes : Unless an idiot dies, he won't be cured.
    Kanji : 馬鹿は死ななきゃ治らない。
    read : Baka wa shinanakya naoranai
  • Quotes : Don't let your daughter-in-law eat your autumn eggplants.
    Kanji : 秋茄子は嫁に食わすな
    read : Akinasu wa yome ni kuwasuna
  • Quotes : after the rain, earth hardens
    Kanji : 雨降って地固まる
    read : ame futte chi katamaru
  • Quotes : pulling water to my own rice paddy
    Kanji : 我田引水
    read : gaden insui
  • Quotes : A bad wife spells a hundred years of bad harvest.
    Kanji : 悪妻は百年の不作。
    read : Akusai wa hyaku-nen no fusaku