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 .

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

費用を受け持つ者に決定権がある。

View sentence details

Love me, love my dog.

私と友達になりたいなら、私の友達とも友達になってくれ。

View sentence details

Don't cry before you're hurt.

何もされていないうちから文句をいうな。

View sentence details

Barking dogs seldom bite.

よく吠える犬はめったにかみつかない。

View sentence details

His bark is worse than his bite.

彼のほえるのはかむのよりひどい。

View sentence details

It is never too late to learn.

決して学ぶのに遅すぎるということはない。

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

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

Slow and steady wins the race.

ゆっくりでも着実にやってゆけば勝負には勝つ。

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

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

いかに粗末であろうとも我が家に勝る所はない。

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

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

心熱けれど肉体は弱し。

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

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

両方いいようにはできない。

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

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

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

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

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。

View sentence details

Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

金は善い召使だが悪い主人だ。

View sentence details

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。

View sentence details

As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart.

錆が鉄を虫食むのと同様に心配は心を虫食む。

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 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

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できても、水を飲ませることはできない。

View sentence details

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

早寝、早起きは人を健康に、富裕に、賢明にする。

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

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

He who would the daughter win, with the mother must begin.

将を射んと欲すれば先ず馬を射よ。

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

Every cock crows on his own dunghill.

人はだれでもお山の大将になれる。

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

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

Least said, soonest mended.

口数が少なければ言い直しもたやすい。

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

What is done cannot be undone.

やってしまったことは取り返しがつかない。

View sentence details

A bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband.

女房の悪さは六十年の不作。

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

As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

小羊を盗んで絞首刑になるくらいなら親羊を盗んで絞首刑になるほうがましだ。

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

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

会わないでいると人の心はいっそう愛情が深くなる。

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

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.

どんなに粗末な家でも我が家にまさるところはない。

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

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

鞭を惜しむと子供は駄目になる。

View sentence details

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

勉強ばかりで遊ばないと子供はだめになる。

View sentence details

You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.

お菓子を持っていたり同時に食べたりはできない。

View sentence details

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

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

Nothing venture, nothing have.

何の冒険もしないなら、何も得られない。

View sentence details

All his geese are swans.

自分のものならガチョウも白鳥に見える。

View sentence details

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
ResponsiveVoice used under Non-Commercial License