Great Throughts Treasury

"Man is for one generation; his name is for all ages to come."

"Melon field, under a plum tree"

"Meeting is only the beginning of separation."

"Men's hearts are as different as their faces."

"Money has no smell."

"My family ancestors, were all excellent Buddhas."

"Money grows on the tree of persistence."

"My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life."

"Money has no ears but it hears."

"Money shines even more brightly than Amida."

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

"My skirt with tears is always wet: I have forgotten to forget."

"Never go looking for trouble."

"None of us are as smart as all of us."

"Never let go the reins of the wild colt of the heart."

"Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law."

"Not seeing is a flower."

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty."

"Not to know is to be a Buddha; not to see is Paradise."

"Not knowing is Buddha."

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained; No pain, no gain."

"Not-speaking is the flower (Silence is golden)"

"Nothing will grow, if the seed be not sown."

"Obey the customs of the village you enter."

"Old men for consultation, young men for quarrels."

"One blind man leads many blind Men."

"Old times are old times, the present is present."

"One cannot become a priest just by having a rosary."

"One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at their collars."

"One dog barks an inanity, ten thousand dogs assert its truth."

"One cannot quarrel without an opponent."

"One confession effaces the sins of even three years."

"One kind word can warm three winter months."

"One kindness is the price of another."

"One must go outside to hear Buddhist doctrine or the sound of rain on a straw roof."

"One peach rotting, one hundred are damaged."

"One may study calligraphy at eighty."

"One must put on a brave display even in adversity."

"One stone, two birds"

"One seeing is better than one hundred hearings."

"One word let slip and four horses would fail to catch it."

"One sees the sky through a hollow reed."

"One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine."

"One who chases after two hares won't catch even one."

"One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold."

"One's Act, One's profit/Advantage."

"One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger."

"Only by reason of having died does one enter into life."

"Only death will cure a fool. (You can't fix stupid.)"

"Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black."