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A bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband.

女房の悪さは六十年の不作。

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Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

子宝に恵まれに粗末でも、我が家にまさる所はない。

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

どんな悪いことにも良い面がある。

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Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

どんなにみすぼらしくても、わが家にまさる所はない。

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You cannot get blood out of a stone.

石から血を取り出すことはできない。

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A little learning is a dangerous thing.

少しばかりの学問は危険なもの。

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A man is known by the company he keeps.

人は付き合っている人間でわかる。

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His bark is worse than his bite.

彼のほえるのはかむのよりひどい。

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Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

ガラスの家に住む人は石を投げるべきではない。

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You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

老人に新しいことは無理だ。

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There is a skeleton in every closet.

どんな家にも内輪の悩みはあるものだ。

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All his geese are swans.

自分のものならガチョウも白鳥に見える。

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Rome wasn't built in a day.

ローマは、一日にして建設されたものではない。

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Well begun is half done.

始まりがうまければ半ばうまくいったもおなじ。

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

気の弱い男が美女を得たためしがない。

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Least said, soonest mended.

口数が少なければ言い直しもたやすい。

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What is done cannot be undone.

なされたことは元通りにはならない。

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Better be the head of a cat than the tail of a lion.

大きな集団の尻につくより頭になれ。

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It's too late to shut the barn door after the horse is stolen.

泥棒を見て縄をなう。

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One man's meat is another man's poison.

ある人の食べ物が別の人には毒。

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

憂いの反面には喜びがあるものだ。

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Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

たとえどんなに粗末であろうと、我が家ほどよいところはない。

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To err is human, to forgive divine.

間違いをするのが人間で、許すのは神だ。

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Do in Rome as the Romans do.

ローマではローマ人がするようにせよ。

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Do as you would be done by.

自分がしてもらいたいように人にもしなさい。

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A friend in need is a friend indeed.

まさかのときの友こそ真の友。

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He that cannot ask cannot live.

人にものを聞くことができないものは生きることもできない。

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What is done cannot be undone.

やってしまったことは元に戻らない。

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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

早寝早起きは人を健康に、金持ちに、そして賢くする。

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Every cock crows on his own dunghill.

人はだれでもお山の大将になれる。

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Well begun is half done.

出だしがよければ半ばやり遂げたようなものだ。

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Two wrongs don't make a right.

他人が悪い事をしているからといって自分もそうしてよいということにはならない。

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Short accounts make long friends.

貸借の期間が短ければ交友期間は長い。

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He who pays the piper calls the tune.

費用を受け持つ者に決定権がある。

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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

早寝早起きは健康と富と賢さのもと。

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A man is as old as he feels and a woman as old as she looks.

男の年は気持ちで決まり、女の年は容貌で決まる。

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Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

どんなに貧しくてとも我が家に優るところはない。

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Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

どんなにそまつでも、我が家が一番だ。

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The shepherd, even when he become a gentleman, smells of the lamb.

お里が知れる。

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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

馬を水の所まで連れていっても水を飲ませることはできない。

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It is no use crying over spilt milk.

過ぎ去ったことを嘆いてもしょうがない。

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Barking dogs seldom bite.

吠える犬はめったに噛み付く事はない。

Hoeru inu wa mettani kamitsuku koto wanai

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Better wear out shoes than sheets.

すり減らすのはシーツではなく靴にしろ。

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A fool and his money are soon parted.

愚か者の金はすぐにその手を離れる。

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It's never too late to make amends.

過ちては改むるに憚ることなかれ。

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The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

心熱けれど肉体は弱し。

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Where there's a will, there's a way.

意志のあるところには道がある。

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A jack of all trades is a master of none.

あらゆる職業に手を出す者は何の熟練工にもなれない。

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You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

老犬に新しい芸は教えられない。

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"A rolling stone gathers no moss" is a proverb.

「転がる石は苔をもつけず」はことわざである。

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Do in Rome as the Romans do.

ローマにおいてはローマ人がするようにせよ。

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He laughs best who laughs last.

早まって喜ぶな、最後に笑える者が勝ち。

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

結婚前は両眼を大きく見開いておれ、その後は、その半ばを閉じよ。

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It is no use crying over spilt milk.

すんでしまったことをいつまでもくよくよしても始まらない。

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