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 .

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。

View sentence details

Well begun is half done.

滑り出しが好調なら事は半ば成就したのに等しい。

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

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

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

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

愚者はすぐ奥の手を出し行き詰まる。

View sentence details

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

朝起きは三文の徳。

View sentence details

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。

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

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

Two wrongs don't make a right.

他人の悪事を引き合いに出して自分の悪事の言い訳をすることはできない。

View sentence details

A sound mind dwells in a sound body.

健全な精神は健全な肉体に宿る。

View sentence details

Better wear out shoes than sheets.

すり減らすのはシーツではなく靴にしろ。

View sentence details

Every Jack must have his Jill.

どんな男にもそれ相当の嫁のきてがあるもの。

View sentence details

When the cat is away, the mice will play.

猫がいなくなるとネズミたちが遊びだす。

View sentence details

A great man will be remembered for his achievements.

虎は死して皮を留め、人は死して名を残す。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

Do in Rome as the Romans do.

ローマではローマ人がするようにせよ。

View sentence details

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。

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

There is a skeleton in every closet.

どんな家にも内輪の悩みはあるものだ。

View sentence details

Speak of the devil and he is sure to appear.

悪魔のことを話せば悪魔が現れる。

View sentence details

You cannot get blood out of a stone.

石から血を取り出すことはできない。

View sentence details

It's never too late to make amends.

過ちては改むるに憚ることなかれ。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

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。

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

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

こわれやすいガラス張りの家に住む者は石を投げてはいけない。

View sentence details

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。

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

A jack of all trades is a master of none.

何でもこなす者は名人にはなれない。

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 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

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

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

Every cloud has a silver lining.

憂いの反面には喜びがあるものだ。

View sentence details

A jack of all trades is a master of none.

何でも屋は何でも中途半端。

View sentence details

It's never too late to make amends.

過ちを改むるにはばかることなかれ。

View sentence details

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

意志のあるところには道がある。

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

A man is known by the company he keeps.

人は関わる友によってその人柄が分かる。

View sentence details

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

ある人の食べ物が別の人には毒。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

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

早寝、早起きは人を健康に、富裕に、賢明にする。

View sentence details

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

ゆりかごの中で覚えたことは墓場まで続く。

View sentence details

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

意志あるところには道がある。

View sentence details
ResponsiveVoice used under Non-Commercial License