Gakumon ni Chikamichi Nashi

There is no royal road to learning.

Gakusha Binbo

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

Gakusya no totta Tenka nashi

Many can pack the cards that can not play.

Kagyuukakujo no Arasoi

A storm in a teacup.

Kagamiwo Mite Monowoie

What your glass tells you will not be told by counsel.

Kaeruno Tsurani Mizu

Like water off a duck's back.

Kaerunokowa Kaeru

Nits will be lice.

Kaitouranma wo Tatsu

To cut the Gordian knot.

Gaisyuu Issyoku

To cut by a single hit.

Kaiinuni Tewo kamareru

A man may cause his own dog to bite him.

On wo Ada de Kaesu

The axe goes to the wood where it borrowed its helve.

Onna ha Sangai ni Ienashi

A married woman has nothing of her own but her weddingring and her hair-lace.

Onna no Kaminokeniha Taizou mo tsunagaru

One hair of a woman draws more than a hundred yoke of oxen.

Onna sanninn yoreba Kashimashii

Many women many words.

Onna gokoro to Aki no sora

A woman's mind and winter wind change often.

Onko chishin

He that would know what shall be must consider what has been.

Oyamano Taisho Orehitori

An humblebee in a cowturd thinks himself a king.

Oyabaka

Every ape thinks his puppy the fairest.

Oyano Yokume

The crow thinks her own bird fairest.

Oyano hikariwa Nanahikari

Happy is he whose friends were born before him.

Oyano kokoro Koshirazu

When the rain rains and the goose winks little wots the gosing what the goose thinks.

Oyano Ingaga Konimukuu

The father's sins are visited on the children.

Oyano Ikento Hiyazakewa Atodekiku

Write down the advice of him who loves you, through you like it not at present.

Oyano Ikento Nasubino Hanawa Sennihitotsumo Adawanai

No Advice to the father's.

Oyamo Oyanara Komo Ko

Such a fater such a son.

Oyani Nimu Koha Oniko

That which comes of a hen will scrape.

Oyaga Shindemo Jikiyasumi

It is the pace that kills.

Omoi tattaga Kichijitsu

There is no time like the present.

Oborerumono ha Warawomo Tsukamu

A drowning man will catch at a straw.

Obini Mijikashi Tasukini Nagashi

Too much for one, and not enough for two, like the Walsall man's goose.

O wo Furu Inu ha Tatakarezu

A snarling cur has a scurvy coat.