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Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

金は使っても使われるな。

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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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You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.

菓子は食べたら残らない。

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

朝起きは三文の徳。

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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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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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He who pays the piper calls the tune.

笛吹きに金を払う者が曲を注文する。

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Do as you would be done by.

自分が人からしてもらいたいと思うことは人にもせよ。

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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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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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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。

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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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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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Every cloud has a silver lining.

憂いの反面には喜びがあるものだ。

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All his geese are swans.

自分のものならガチョウも白鳥に見える。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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

意志があるところに道は開ける。

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To err is human, to forgive divine.

間違いをするのが人間で、許すのは神だ。

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Short accounts make long friends.

貸借の期間が短ければ交友期間は長い。

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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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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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A sound mind dwells in a sound body.

健全な精神は健全な肉体に宿る。

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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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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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It's never too late to make amends.

過ちを改むるにはばかることなかれ。

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

すずめ百まで踊り忘れず。

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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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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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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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Every cloud has a silver lining.

どの雲にも銀の裏地がついている。

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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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Don't cross a bridge till you come to it.

橋の所へこないうちに橋を渡るな。

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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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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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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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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。

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Do in Rome as the Romans do.

ローマではローマ人がするようにせよ。

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Rome wasn't built in a day.

ローマは、一日にして建設されたものではない。

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