a drowning man will catch at a straw.(溺れる者は藁をもつかむ) / seeing is believing.(百聞は一見にしかず) / two heads are better than one.(三人寄れば文殊の知恵) / kill two birds with one stone.(一石二鳥) / do in Rome as the Romans do.(郷に入っては郷に従え) / the early bird catches the worm.(早起きは三文の得) / out of the mouth comes the devil.(口は災いのもと) / it is no use crying over spilt milk.(覆水盆に返らず) / time flies like an arrow.(光陰矢の如し) / haste makes waste. /(急いては事を仕損ずる) / too many cooks spoil the broth.
(船頭多くして船山に登る) / see Naples and then die.(日光を見ずして結構と言うなかれ)