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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。

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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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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。

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The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.

かわいさ余って憎さ百倍。

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

泥棒を見て縄をなう。

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

意志のあるところには道がある。

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What is done cannot be undone.

いったんしたことは元どおりにならない。

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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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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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Slow and steady wins the race.

ゆっくりで着実なのが競走に勝つ。

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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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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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He who pays the piper calls the tune.

費用を受け持つ者に決定権がある。

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Least said, soonest mended.

口数が少ないほど、訂正も早くできる。

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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。

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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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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。

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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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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。

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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。

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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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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。

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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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It's a poor workman who blames his tools.

へたな職人は道具に難癖をつける。

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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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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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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。

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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。

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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。

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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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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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It's never too late to make amends.

過ちては改むるに憚ることなかれ。

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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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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。

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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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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。

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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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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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