![IMAGE: Pudding before praise. [Pudding rather than fame.] / Fair words fill not the belly.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pudding-791803_640.jpg)
花より団子。 - 『いろは歌留多（江戸）』
/ 立派な言葉も空腹を癒してはくれぬ。
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Pudding before praise. [Pudding rather than fame.]
/ Fair words fill not the belly.
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Good swimmers are oftenest drowned. [Good swimmers at length are oftenest drowned.] / Even Homer sometimes nods. / No one is wise at all times.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/swimming-pool-830505_640-100x69.jpg)
![IMAGE: Misery makes strange bedfellows. [Misfortune makes strange bedfellows.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/bethesda-naval-hospital-80363_640-100x80.jpg)