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 .

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。

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'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

Do as you would be done by.

人からして貰いたいように人にもなせ。

View sentence details

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

早起きは三文の徳。

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

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

ケーキを食べてしかもそのケーキを持っていることはできない。

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

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。

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

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

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

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

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

It is no use crying over spilt milk.

こぼれたミルクを嘆いても無駄だ。

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

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

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

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

Do in Rome as the Romans do.

ローマはローマ人のするようにせよ。

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's a poor workman who blames his tools.

へたな職人は道具に難癖をつける。

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

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

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

まさかのときの友こそ真の友。

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

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 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 cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

年取った犬に新しい芸を仕込めない。

View sentence details

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。

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

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

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 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

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 an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

誰にも利益を吹きあたえないような風は悪い風である。

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

He laughs best who laughs last.

早まって喜ぶな、最後に笑える者が勝ち。

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

Every cloud has a silver lining.

どの雲にも銀の裏地がついている。

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

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

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

卵を割らなくてはオムレツは作れない。

View sentence details