Great Throughts Treasury

"If you wish for good luck, sleep and wait."

"If you would shoot a general, shoot first his horse."

"Ignorance is bliss. (It's better to not know the truth.)"

"In even a cat the Buddha-nature exists."

"In a quarrel, the higher voiced person will win."

"In outward aspect a Bodhisattva; at innermost heart a demon."

"In wine there is truth."

"Inscrutable are the ways of heaven."

"It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief."

"Inquire seven times then doubt a person."

"It is a blessing in disguise."

"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive disenchanted."

"It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest; don't wash your dirty linen in public."

"It is better to go home and make your net than to gaze longingly at the fish in the pool."

"It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest."

"It is one life, whether we spend it in laughing or in weeping."

"It is not easy to be born among men, and to meet with [the good fortune of hearing the doctrine of] Buddhism."

"It is foolish to deal with a fool."

"It's always darkest before dawn."

"It is the same life whether we spend it crying or laughing."

"It's better to conform than to stick out."

"It takes a long time sitting on a stone before it becomes warm. Expect to work at something for three years before you see results."

"It's hard to know the quality of a person, or a watermelon."

"Jack of all trades, master of none."

"Joy and sorrow exist only in the mind."

"Killing two birds with one stone; Doing two things with one action."

"Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass"

"It's no use crying over spilt milk. A separated couple can never go back to as it was."

"Keep a dog for three days and he will not forget your kindness, but three years kindness"

"Laughter is the hiccup of a fool."

"Laughter cannot bring back what anger has driven away."

"Large fish do not live in a small pond."

"Let sleeping dogs lie."

"Life is a candle before the wind."

"Life's not all beer and skittles."

"Let the past drift away with the water."

"Let each child follow his own path even if it takes him to the edge of a cliff."

"Let what is past flow away downstream."

"Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands"

"Like meeting with a Buddha in hell."

"Like father, like son."

"Like a lot of blind men feeling a great elephant."

"Little strokes fell great oaks."

"Look at the manners of others and mind your manners."

"Like monkeys trying to snatch the moon's reflection on water."

"Luck exists in the leftovers."

"Love lives in palaces as well as in thatched cottages."

"Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth."

"Love and a cough cannot be hidden."

"Making a Buddha without putting in the soul."