JAPANESE PROVERBS.
A father’s favour overtops the mountain ; a mother's kindness is deeper than the sea. A woman with a three-inch toncue can slay a giant. Trouble proceeds from the mouth. From a married couple’s quarrels even a dog will flee. Inquire not the sea road from the mountain woodcutter ; nor ask the seaman the way of the mountain. Poverty is more bitter than 400 illnesses. There is no cordiality for the too frequent visitor. Beauty is only one layer (which is suggestive of the English proverb that ‘ Beauty is but skin deep’). There are three misfortunes in life—in youth to lose a father ; in middle age, the death of a wife ; in old age, to have no children.
A gentleman will not stop to retie his shoelace beside an other’s watermelon field.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue VII, 18 August 1894, Page 161
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133JAPANESE PROVERBS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue VII, 18 August 1894, Page 161
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