Great Throughts Treasury

"To inlay ice; to paint upon water."

"To one who does not wander there is not enlightenment."

"To get a dumpling cake go to the dumpling cake maker."

"To teach is also to learn."

"To spend time chitchatting or to waste time in the middle of a task."

"To save folk having no karma-relation would be difficult indeed!"

"To kill an ox is an attempt to straighten its horns."

"To the partial eyes of a lover, pockmarks seem like dimples."

"To tell tales out of school."

"To the eyes of gaki water is viewless."

"Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice."

"To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death."

"Too many sailors drive the boat up the mountain."

"Transactions in Hell also depend upon money."

"Tomorrow is tomorrow, today is today."

"True patience consists in bearing what is unbearable."

"Truth often comes out of a joke."

"Trash accumulates in stagnant water."

"Unless an idiot dies, he won't be cured."

"Trying to do two things at once will make you fail in both."

"Wake from death and return to life"

"Walls have ears, bottles have mouths."

"Virtue is not knowing but doing."

"Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs."

"Walls have ears, paper sliding doors have eyes."

"We learn little from victory, much from defeat."

"We are no more than candles burning in the wind."

"We often don't heed good advice."

"We're fools whether or not we dance, so we might as well dance."

"We've arrived, and to prove it we're here."

"When I want to think, I sit. When I want to change, I act."

"When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead."

"When in Rome, do as the Romans."

"What was a deep pool yesterday is but a shallows today."

"When your companions get drunk and fight, Take up your hat, and wish them good night."

"When the purse is light there is no vitality."

"When the time comes, even a rat becomes a tiger."

"When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there."

"When you're thirsty it's too late to think about digging a well."

"Where even three persons come together, there is a world of pain."

"Where three persons come together, there is the wisdom of Monj–."

"Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one."

"With many little strokes a large tree is felled."

"While we consider when to begin, it becomes too late."

"With the fall of one leaf we know that autumn has come to the world."

"With one hair of a woman you can tether even a great elephant."

"With such a father there is such a child."

"With the first glass a man drinks wine, with the second glass the wine drinks the wine, with the third glass the wine drinks the man."

"Without oars, you cannot cross in a boat."

"Wives and pots and kettles are better when old."