One of the site's featured Japanese television monsters

Example sentences tagged “proverb”

Read the English translation, check the romaji and listen to the Japanese.

Heads Up These sentences are mainly from the Tanaka Corpus and Tatoeaba project. Read more

Select a speaker button to hear the Japanese spoken. Text-to-speech functionality is provided by ResponsiveVoice .

The last straw breaks the camel's back.

最後のわら一本がらくだの背骨を折る。

View sentence details

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

意志があるところに道は開ける。

View sentence details

Nothing venture, nothing have.

何の冒険もしないなら、何も得られない。

View sentence details

His bark is worse than his bite.

彼は口やかましいが本心は悪くない。

View sentence details

A house without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man.

魂なき肉体が人間でないのと同様に、愛なき家庭は決して家庭ではない。

View sentence details

As you sow, so will you reap.

種をまくように刈り入れることになる。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

Short accounts make long friends.

貸借の期間が短ければ交友期間は長い。

View sentence details

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

早寝早起きは人を健康で裕福で賢明にする。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb.

すずめ百まで踊り忘れず。

View sentence details

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

老いた犬に新しい芸当を教え込むことはできない。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.

かわいさ余って憎さ百倍。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

What is done cannot be undone.

やってしまったことは元に戻らない。

View sentence details

A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

何時も柳の下に泥鰌は居らぬ。

View sentence details

Birds of a feather flock together.

同じ色の羽の鳥は共に集まるものだ。

View sentence details

Slow and steady wins the race.

ゆっくりで着実なのが競走に勝つ。

View sentence details

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

旧弊な人は新しい事になじめない。

View sentence details

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

オムレツを作るには卵を割らなくてはならない。

View sentence details

Faint heart never won fair lady.

気の弱い男が美女を得たためしがない。

View sentence details

Least said, soonest mended.

口数が少なければ言い直しもたやすい。

View sentence details

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.

赤貧戸口に至らば、恋は窓より飛び去る。

View sentence details

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

たまごを割らずにオムレツは作れない。

View sentence details

Slow and steady wins the race.

ゆっくりと着実なのが競争に勝つ。

View sentence details

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

馬を水際まで連れて行くことは出来るが、水を飲ませることは出来ない。

View sentence details

You're never too old to learn.

どんなに年を取っても学問ができないことはない。

View sentence details

Fine words butter no parsnips.

ただ口先ばかりでは何の役にも立たない。

View sentence details

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

老犬に新しい芸は教えられない。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

Every cloud has a silver lining.

どんな悪いことにも良い面がある。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

100里を行く者は99里を半ばとする。

View sentence details

To err is human, to forgive divine.

あやまちを犯すのは人の常、ゆるすのは神。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

All that glitters is not gold.

輝くものすべてが金とは限らない。

View sentence details

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

泥棒を見て縄をなう。

View sentence details

A man is known by the company he keeps.

人は交わる友によってその人物がわかる。

View sentence details