Don’t scold children, you were children too; don’t laugh at old people, you’ll be old too. (translation by Okamoto Ken [Take Moon OK] (1963 – )) (Image by Stephen Farrugia from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine… More »
If you clap your hands: the maid will make tea (for you), the birds will fly away (from you), the carp will come close (to you); at Sarusawa Pond. (translation by Okamoto Ken [Take Moon OK] (1963 – )) (Image… More »
Any port in a storm. More »
A fault confessed is half redressed. More »
Constant dropping wears (away) the stone. / Patient men win the day. More »
![IMAGE: A burnt child dreads the fire. [The burnt child fears the fire.] / Once bitten, twice shy. [Once bit, twice shy.] / He that has been bitten by a serpent [snake] fear [is afraid of] a rotten rope. / A scalded cat [dog] fears (even) cold water.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/asian_match_dog_boy_basilisk-rattlesnake_cat-200x150.jpg)
A burnt child dreads the fire. [The burnt child fears the fire.] / Once bitten, twice shy. [Once bit, twice shy.] / He that has been bitten by a serpent [snake] fear [is afraid of] a rotten rope. / A… More »
![IMAGE: A new broom sweeps clean. [New brooms sweep clean.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/workers-78002_640-200x150.jpg)
A new broom sweeps clean. [New brooms sweep clean.] / (Someone who is new in a particular job will do a very good job at first, to prove how competent he or she is.) More »
No sweet without sweat. More »
Tomorrow is another day. – Scarlett O’Hara — Margaret Mitchell (1900 – 49): Gone with the Wind More »
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. / (Mexican Proverb) (Image by Calvin Tatum from Pixabay) / (Image by Renee Carter from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »
![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: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_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)
