there are about a 100 to 200 more.
Can anybody give me a source - link ( ps i am not talking about Sun Tsu's art of war - thats chinese )
Answers:
I could not find a website with the quotes, but I found some japanese quotes and their english equivalents. I also found that there is a book for sale with japanese quotes which I have posted the url for you.
1. Even a packhorse driver looks fine in proper dress.
2. Even monkeys fall from trees.
3. Even a thousand mile journey begins with the first step.
4. One coin saved, a hundred lost.
5. An evil act runs a thousand miles.
6. You can not get clams from a field.
7. The reverse side has its reverse side.
8. Do not estimate the value of the skin of a badger before you catch the badger.
9. Even dust amassed will grow into a mountain.
10. The child of a frog is a frog.
11. The protruding nail will be hammered.
12. Ten men, ten tastes.
13. Boil and drink another manfs finger nail dirt.
14. Rust comes from within the body.
15. A clever hawk hides its claws.
16. One might study calligraphy even at eighty.
17. Good medicine tastes bitter in the mouth.
18. When the hand is put in, the foot follows.
Here are the English equivalents:
1. Clothes make the man.
2. Anybody can make a mistake.
3. You have to start somewhere.
4. Penny-wise, pound-foolish.
5. Bad news travels fast.
6. You can not get blood from a stone.
7. There are wheels within wheels.
8. Do not count your chickens before they hatch.
9. Great oaks grow from little acorns.
10. Like father, like son.
11. Do not make waves.
12. To each his own.
13. Walk a mile in another manfs shoes.
14. As you make your bed, so must you lie in it.
15. He who knows most, speaks least.
16. It is never to late to learn.
17. Good advice is hard to swallow. // good advice when most needed is least heeded.
18. Draw back while there is still time.
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EDIT: okay found something else:
http://www.worldofquotes.com/proverb/jap...
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/top/nationa...
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/jap...
What happens twice will happen three times.
Bad money drives out good.
Love blinds a man to all imperfections.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Kill two birds with one stone.
He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill.
A waking dog afar off barks at a sleeping lion.
The end justifies the means.
Even Homer sometimes nods.
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