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Japanese Proverb

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.

Menander

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

George R. R. Martin

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

Horace

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Edward Fitzgerald

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Omar Khayyam

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Rebecca Pidgeon

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Arthur Eddington

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Richard Chamberlain

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

Ellen Glasgow

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Japanese Proverb

The nail whose head is sticking up get hammered down.

This extremely popular proverb is repeated over and over to children and young people in Japan in an effort to produce conforming adults—felt to be best for the Japanese culture and society. Individualism has traditionally been suspect.

Japanese Proverb

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

Japanese Proverb

A good sword is the one left in its scabbard.

Ethiopian Proverb

You cannot build a house for last year's summer.

Edward Law Ellenborough

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

Oda Nobunaga

Things come to him who can wait.

Georges Maget

For a Samurai to be brave, he must have a bit of black blood.

Often cited as a Japanese Proverb, however, there is no evidence of its general use. The quote can be traced to Georges Maget, a French Naval doctor in the 1870’s – see the article link in the citation. Magets reference to “black blood” is likely rooted in the French historical slang “sang noir,” which was used to describe non-noble blood.