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ABROAD
Go abroad and you'll hear news of home. ⇒ 教訓 8
ABSENCE
Absence makes heart grow fonder. ⇒ 教訓 11
Long absence alters affection. ⇒ 教訓 14
ABSENT
He who takes a lion when he is absent, fears a mouse present. ⇒
教訓264
He who is absent is always in the wrong. ⇒ 教訓 14
The absent are always in the wrong. ⇒ 教訓 14
ACCIDENT
Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families. ⇒ 教訓 63
Accidents will happen. ⇒ 教訓 63
ACCOUNT
There is no accounting for tastes. ⇒ 教訓 20
ACCUSE,ACCUSER
A guilty conscience is a self-accuser. ⇒ 教訓260
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. ⇒ 教訓260
He who excuses himself accuses himself. ⇒ 教訓 3
Never ask pardon before you are accused. ⇒ 教訓234
ACORN
Every oak must be an acorn. ⇒ 教訓 30
Great oaks from little acorns grow. ⇒ 教訓 30
ACTION
Actions speak louder than words. ⇒ 教訓216
ADAM
We are all Adam's children. ⇒ 教訓 55
ADVERSITY
Adversity makes a man wise. ⇒ 教訓 62
In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; in time of adversity,
not one amongst twenty. ⇒ 教訓136
Misery (or Misfortune, or Adversity, or Poverty) makes strange bedfellows.
⇒ 教訓139
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ⇒ 教訓140
Sweet are the uses of adversity.[Shakespeare] ⇒ 教訓 62
ADVICE
A woman's advice is no great thing, but he who won't take it is
a fool. ⇒ コトワザこぼれ話(5)
Advice when most needed is least heeded. ⇒ 教訓204
If you wish good advice, consult an old man. ⇒ 教訓204
It is as hard to follow good advice as to give it. ⇒ 教訓204
The best advice is found on the pillow. ⇒ 教訓205
AFTERNOON
Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons. ⇒ 教訓 58
AGE
Age and experience teach wisdom. ⇒ 教訓177
An idle youth, a needy age. ⇒ 教訓245
Reckless youth makes rueful age. ⇒ 教訓245
The golden age was never the present age. ⇒ 教訓 7
Youth and age will never agree. ⇒ 教訓178
AMBITION
Ambition makes people diligent. ⇒ 教訓 92
ANGEL
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.[Alexander Pope] ⇒ 教訓173
Talk of angel and you will hear the fluttering of its wings. ⇒
教訓187
Women are saints in church, angels in the street, and devils at
home. ⇒ コトワザこぼれ話(5)
ANGER,ANGRY
Anger punishes itself. ⇒ 教訓222
A hungry man is an angry man. ⇒ 教訓155
When meat is in, anger is out. ⇒ 教訓155
ANSWER
A soft answer turns (or turneth) away wrath.[Proverbs] ⇒ 教訓 99
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer. ⇒ 教訓218
Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer. ⇒ 教訓 71
Like question, like answer. ⇒ 教訓218
No answer is also an answer. ⇒ 教訓207
APPAREL
Apparel makes the man. ⇒ 教訓 26
APPEARANCE
Appearance oft deceives. ⇒ 教訓 25
Appearances are deceptive(deceiving). ⇒ 教訓 25
Judge not according to appearances. ⇒ 教訓25
Never judge by appearances. ⇒ 教訓 25
APPLE
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ⇒ コトワザこぼれ話(3)
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. ⇒ 教訓238
The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest. ⇒ 教訓
12
The rotten apple injures its neighbor. ⇒ 教訓130
APRIL
April showers bring forth May flowers. ⇒ 教訓 58
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers. ⇒ 教訓 58
APRON
A woman need but look on her apron-string to find an excuse. ⇒
コトワザこぼれ話(5)
ARCHITECT
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ⇒ 教訓 54 ⇒ 教訓249
ARM
Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach. ⇒ 教訓157
ARMY
An army marches on its stomach. ⇒ 教訓155
ARROW
The arrow shot upright falls on the shooter's head. ⇒ 教訓222
ART
Art is long, life is short.[Hippocrates] ⇒ 教訓107
ASS
Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a dragon. ⇒ 教訓145
Better be the tail of a horse than the head of an ass. ⇒ 教訓146
Better ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.
⇒ 教訓98
Every ass likes to hear itself bray. ⇒ 教訓212
If an ass goes a-travelling, he'll not come home a horse. ⇒ 教訓184
ATTRACT
Like attracts like. ⇒ 教訓128
AVOID
Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler. ⇒ 教訓200・⇒
教訓235