Kotowaza 
- HA
Japanese: HANA YORI DANGO
(Dumplings rather than flowers.)

English: Function before form. / Better fill a man's belly than his eye.

- HI
Japanese: BIJIN HAKUMEI
(Beauty and luck seldom go together.)

English: The fairest flowers soonest fade.

- HU
Japanese: HUUZEN NO TOMOSHIBI
(Candle in the wind. (To have one's life hang by a thread.))

English: Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.

- HE
HETA NA TEPPOU KAZU UCHA ATARU
Japanese/English: He that shoots oft, at last shall hit the mark.

- HO
Japanese: HORETE KAYOEBA SENRI MO ICHIRI
(If you're in love, travelling a thousand miles seems like only one mile.)

English: Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

 --All Proverbs Translated by Andrew Becraft
   (Pan-Pacific Bricks)