Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [であった]

Anyhow, it's the truth that on this snowy night a lone old woman was sitting on the side of the road.

Tonight was also a windless night.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Friends today, enemies tomorrow.

Today's friends are tomorrow's enemies.

Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.

For him, hunger was an abstract concept. He had always had enough food.

Knowledge is like manure, it's only good when spread.

Denying she was an anarchist, Katja maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it.

There's no doubt that the universe is infinite.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal . . .

I broke the marriage vows that I had sworn to Don Jose, my husband.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the exact opposite.

When two armies oppose one another, those who can fight should fight, those who can't fight should guard, those who can't guard should flee, those who can't flee should surrender, and those who can't surrender should die.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

Sometimes I wonder if this world is just in someone's head, and he dreams us all into existence. Perhaps it's even me.

I was looking at the dog, but, with another look, it had turned into a cat.

I was looking at a dog. However, when I looked again, it had turned into a cat.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Many great thinkers who were unknown while alive became famous after death.