![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.jpg)
河童の川流れ。
/ 弘法にも筆の誤り。［弘法も筆の誤り。］（日本の諺）
/ 猿も木から落ちる。（日本の諺）
/ ホーマーすら時に居眠りをする。［ホーマーすら時に失策をする。］
/ 四六時中賢明なものはいない。
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Good swimmers are oftenest drowned. [Good swimmers at length are oftenest drowned.]
/ Even Homer sometimes nods.
/ No one is wise at all times.
![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: Misfortunes never come singly. [Misfortunes seldom come singly.] / One misfortune rides upon another's back. / It never rains but it pours.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/bike-239882_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street. [I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/london-600921_640-100x67.jpg)