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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。

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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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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。

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Do in Rome as the Romans do.

ローマはローマ人のするようにせよ。

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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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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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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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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。

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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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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。

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

両方いいようにはできない。

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The danger past and God forgotten.

危険が過ぎると神様は忘れられる。

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

早寝早起きは人を健康に裕福にそして賢明にする。

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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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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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A jack of all trades is a master of none.

何でも屋は何でも中途半端。

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Spare the rod and spoil the child.

鞭を惜しむと子供は駄目になる。

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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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You're never too old to learn.

学ぶのに年を取りすぎているということはない。

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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

プディングのうまいまずいは食べてみてから。

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A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

何時も柳の下に泥鰌は居らぬ。

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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。

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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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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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Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

金は善い召使だが悪い主人だ。

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Rome wasn't built in a day.

ローマは1日でできたのではなかった。

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Nothing venture, nothing have.

何の冒険もしないなら、何も得られない。

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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。

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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。

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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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It is no use crying over spilt milk.

こぼれたミルクを嘆いても無駄だ。

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It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

ぎりぎりの重荷を負ったラクダはわら1本でも積ませたら参ってしまう。

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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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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。

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Birds of a feather flock together.

同じ色の羽の鳥は共に集まるものだ。

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

意志あるところには道がある。

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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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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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As you sow, so will you reap.

種をまくように刈り入れることになる。

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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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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.

やってしまったことは取り返しがつかない。

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All that glitters is not gold.

輝くものすべてが金とは限らない。

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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。

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

やる気があれば方法は見つかるもの。

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A fool's bolt is soon shot.

愚者はすぐ奥の手を出し行き詰まる。

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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。

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

お里が知れる。

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Fine words butter no parsnips.

ただ口先ばかりでは何の役にも立たない。

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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。

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You can't take it with you when you die.

死んだらお金はあの世へ持っていけない。

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Barking dogs seldom bite.

よく吠える犬はめったにかみつかない。

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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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