(Even) Honer sometimes nods.

弘法も筆の誤り

（たとえ悪人でも）功績のある者には功績を認めよ （たとえあくにんでも、こうせきのあるものにはこうせきをみとめよ）

Give credit where credit is due.

１オンスの思慮は１ポンドもの機知に値する （いちオンスのしりょは、いちポンドものきちにあたいする）

An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.

A bad thing never dies.

憎まれっ子世にはばかる

A bad wife ruins the house.

悪妻家を滅ぼす

A bad workman always blames his tools.

下手な職人は道具のせいにする

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.

窮鼠ネコをかむ

A bargain is a bargain.

武士に二言なし

A barking dog never bites.

吠え立てる犬はかみつかない

A barking dog seldom bites.

騒ぎ立てる人は大したことはない

A bird in ｔhe hand is worth two in the bush.

明日の百より今日の五十

A blind pigeon may sometimes find a grain of wheat.

下手な鉄砲も数打ちゃ当たる

A book that is shut is but a block.

閉じられた本は塊でしかない

A book that remains shut is but a block.

宝の持ち腐れ

A bully is always a coward.

威張るやつは、きまって臆病者だ

A burnt child fears the fire.

火傷した子は火を怖がる

A cat has nine lives.

猫には九生

A cat may look at a king.

卑賤な者にも相応の権利はある

A child is what his parents make.

生みの親より育ての親

A cold often leads to all kinds of disease.

風邪は万病の元

A constant guest is never welcome.

いつも来る客は歓迎されない

A dead tree is better than nothing.

枯れ木も山の賑わい

A disciple sometimes outshines his master.

藍より青し

A doctor and a boor knows more than a doctor.

三人寄れば文殊の知恵

A dog which barks much is never good at hunting.

騒ぎ立てる人は大したことはない

A drowning man will catch at a straw.

溺れる者は、藁をもつかむ

A fault confessed is half redressed.

過失を認めるのは、償いの半ば

A fly even has its anger.

一寸の虫にも五分の魂

A flying crow always catches something.

犬も歩けば棒に当たる

A fool laughs when others laugh.

尻馬に乗る

A forced kindness deserves no thanks.

仕方なしの親切に感謝は無用

A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

柳の下にはいつもドジョウはいない

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

まさかの時の友こそ真の友

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

困ったときの友は、真の友

A golden key opens every door.

地獄の沙汰も金次第

A good appetite is a good sauce.

空腹に不味いものなし

A good beginning makes a good ending.

始めが肝心

A good example is the best sermon.

論より証拠

A good medicine tastes bitter.

良薬は口に苦し

A good name is sooner lost than won.

良い評判を取るのは難しいが、失うのは早い

A great city, a great solitude.

大都市では人は孤独

A great ship asks deep waters.

大魚は小池に棲まず　

A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.

育ち盛りは、いくら食べても、食べたりない

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

垣根があれば、友情も長持ちする

A house divided against itself cannnot stand.

内輪もめしている一家は立ちいかない

A Jack of all trades is master　of none.

多芸は無芸

A little bait catches a large fish.

エビで鯛を釣る

A little help is worth a deal of pity.

同情より少しの援助

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

生兵法は怪我の基

A little leak will sink a great ship.

蟻の穴から堤も崩れる

A man away from home need feel no shame.

旅の恥はかきすて

A man becomes learned by asking questions.

聞くは一時の恥、聞かぬは一生の恥

A man can only die once.

嫌な事もこれでお終い

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.

男の年は気持ちの通り、女の年は見かけのとおり

A man without a wife is but half a man.

妻のない男は半人前

A man's house is his castle.

住めば都

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

論語読みの論語知らず

A mill cannot ｇrind with the water that is past.

過ぎ去った時間は使えない

A mud-wall deads a cannon-bullet.

柔よく剛を制す

A nail that stands up will be pounded down.

出る杭は打たれる

A naked man cannot be stripped of clothes.

無い袖は振れぬ

A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.

遠くの親類より近くの他人

A penny saved is a penny earned.

塵も積もれば山となる

A rich man's joke is always funny.

ご機嫌取りの追従笑い・・ごますり

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

転石コケむさず

A saint's maid quotes Latin.

門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む

A short-cut is ofen a wrong cut.

急がば、回れ

A small lie is useful in some cases.

嘘も方便

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

柔らかな答えは憤りをとどめる

A sound mind in a sound body.

健全なる精神は健全なる肉体に宿る

A still tongue makes a wise head.

自分で話すより、人の話を聞く方が学ぶことが多い

A stitch in time saves nine.

今日の一針は明日の十針

A stolen fruit tastes sweet.

盗んだ果実はおいしい

A tree is known by its fruits.

木の価値はその実でわかる

A waking dog afar off barks at a sleeping lion.

犬の遠吠え

A watched pot never boils.

待つ身は長い

A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither liked by God nor men.

男のマネをしてるような男っぽい女性は好かれない

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

君子は豹変する

A wise man is never less alone than when alone.

賢者は一人でいても、孤独ではない

A wise man never courts danger.

君子危うきに近寄らず

A wise person profits by his mistakes.

賢い人は転んでもただでは起きない

A woman is a weathercock.

女心と秋の空

A woman's mind and winter wind change oft.

女心と秋の空

A wonder lasts but nine days.

人の噂も７５日

A word is enough to a wise man.

一を聞いて、十を知る

Abad workman always blames his tools.

弘法は筆を選ばず

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

側に居ないと、想いはつのる

Aburnt child dreads the fire.

羮（あつもの）にこりて膾（なます）を吹く

Accidents will happen.

月にむら雲　花に風（事故は起こるもの）

Accomplishments are a friend in need.

芸は身を助く

Acontented mind is a perpetual feast.

満足は永久の祝宴

Actions speak louder than words.

人は言葉よりも行いで判断される

Adoor must be either shut or open.

ドアは開けておくか、締めておくかしかない

Adversity is the best school.

逆境で人は成長する

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

逆境では普通には会えない（口をきかない）ような人と縁ができる

Advice when most needed is least heeded.

肝心な時の忠言、耳に逆らう

Adwarf on a giant's shoulder sees the farther of the two.

経験不足の者も、経験豊かな人の教えを受ければ有利である

After a storm comes a calm.

待てば海路の日和あり

After a storm comes a calm.

雨降って地固まる

After death the doctor.

あとの祭り

After rain comes fair weather.

雨降って地固まる

After us(me) the deluge.

後は野となれ山となれ

All cats are grey in the dark.

美貌などは一皮剥けば同じこと

All covet, all lose.

全てを望めば、すべてを失う

All good things come to an end.

すべて良いことには終わりがある

All great minds think alike.

賢人は皆同じように考えるものだ

All his geese are swans.

彼は手前味噌ばかり並べる

All ill payer(paymaster) never wants (an) excuse.

払うつもりがなければ、口実はあるものだ

All is fish that comes to his net.

なんでもござれ

All is lost that is given to a fool.

糠に釘

All is not gold that glitters.

光ものすべてが金ならず

All lay loads on a willing horse.

進んで働く者には仕事をさせよ

All roads lead to Rome.

すべての道はローマに通ず

All thing are difficult before they are easy.

習うより慣れろ

All things are easy that are done willingly.

好きこそ物の上手なれ

All things thrive at thrice.

三度目の正直

All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

よく学び、よく遊べ

All's fair in love and war.

恋愛と戦争では手段を選ばない

All's well that ends well.

終わりよければすべて良し

Aman of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

ことばだけで行為の伴わぬ者は、雑草だらけの庭みたいなものだ

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

一日一個のリンゴを食えば、医者は要らない

An ass in a lion's skin.

虎の威を借る狐

An attempt is sometimes easier than expected.

案ずるより産むは易し

An Englishiman's house is his castle.

イギリス人の家は自分の城である

An evil may sometimes turn out a blessing in disguise.

人間万事塞翁が馬

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

目には目を、歯には歯を

An onion will not produce a rose.

瓜のツルには茄子はならぬ

An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.

１オンスの思慮は１ポンドもの機知に値する

Any port in a storm.

溺れるものはワラをも掴む

Anything is better than nothing.

枯れ木も山のにぎわい

Anything viewed through the eyes of faith seems perfect.

鰯の頭も信心から

Art and knowledge brings bread and honer.

芸は身を助く

Art is long, life is short.

少年老いやすく学成りがたし

As many places, so many manners.

所変われば品変わる

As old man's saying are seldom untrue.

年寄りのいうことは滅多にはずれない

As soon as man is born, he begins to die.

生まれると同時に死は始まる

As the old cock crows, so crows the young.

見よう見まね

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

三つ子の魂百まで

As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

毒を食らえば、皿まで

As you sow, so you shall reap.

まいた種は刈らねばならぬ

Attack is the best form of defence.

攻撃は最大の防御なり

Bad luck often brings good luck.

人間万事塞翁が馬

Bad money drives out good.

悪貨は良貨を駆逐する

Bad news has wings.

悪事千里を走る

Bad news travels quickly.

悪事千里を走る

Be just before you are generous.

気前のよきより、まず至当たれ

Be silent, or speak something worth hearing.

沈黙は金

Beauty is but skin deep.

美しいも皮一重

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

蓼食う者も好きずき

Beggars must(can) not be choosers(choosy).

頼む時には注文無用

Best is cheapest.

長持ちするものなど

Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

今日の卵は明日の鶏に勝る

Better be a dog's head than a lion's tail.

むしろ鶏口となるとも牛後となることなかれ

Better be a fool than a knave.

悪党よりバカがまし

Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.

鶏口となるも、牛後となるなかれ

Better bend than break.

権力に屈する場合などの言葉

Better late than never.

すぐ出来るにこしたことはないけど全然やらないよりはマシだ

Better one die than all.

小の虫を殺して大の虫を助ける

Better to ask the way than go astray.

聞くは一時の恥

Better( to) be alone than in bad(ill) company.

悪い仲間と交わるよりも、一人でいるが良い

Between two stools you fall to the ground.

虻蜂取らず

Birds of a feather flock together.

類は友を呼ぶ

Birth is much, but breeding is more.

氏より育ち

Blood is thicker than water.

血は水よりも濃い（他人より身内）

Books and friends shoud be few but good.

書物と友人は、数は少なく、良いものであるべきだ

Boys be ambitious.

少年よ大志を抱け

Boys will be boys.

男の子のいたずらはしょうがない

Burn not your house to fright the mouse away.

極端な方法を取るな

Busiest men find the most time.

多忙な人ほど、時間を見つける

Business before pleasure.

遊ぶよりはまずは仕事

By lamplight every country wench seems handsome.

夜目遠目傘のうち

By others faults wise men correct their own.

人の振り見て我が振り直せ

By the time you wish to be a good son, your parents are long gone.

親孝行したいときには親はなし

Call a spade a spade.

歯に衣着せぬ

Call no man happy till he is dead.

生きている限り、苦しいことがある

Care killed a cat.

病は気から

Cast ne'er a clout till May be out.

五月が過ぎるまでは、ボロでも脱ぐな

Cast no dirt in the well that gives you water.

立つ鳥跡を濁さず

Cast not your pearls before swine.

豚に真珠

Catch your bear before you sell its skin.

熊を捕らなきゃ毛皮は売れない

Cats hide their claws.

能ある鷹は爪を隠す

Charity begins at home.

慈愛は、我が家から始まる

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

慈愛は多くの罪を償う

Children have the qualities of the parents.

蛙の子は蛙

Children should be seen and not heard.

子どもは大人の前でみだりに口をきいてはならない

Choose neither women nor linen by candle light.

夜目遠目傘のうち

Christmas comes bet once a year.

楽しめるときに大いに楽しめ、善行を施せ

Circumstances alter cases.

事情によって立場（事態）も変わる

Claw me, I'll claw thee.

魚心あれば、水心

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

きれい好きは敬神に近い

Clear water breeds no fish.

水清ければ魚住まず

Close is my shirt, but closer is my skin.

背に腹はかえられぬ

Clothes do not make the man.

衣服は人を作らず

Coming events cast their shadows before them.

桐一葉、落ちて天下の秋を知る

Coming events cast their shadows before them.

嵐の前の静けさ

Comparisons are odious.

人と比較して、とやかく言うのは良くない

Condemn the offense, but pity the offender.

罪を憎んで人を憎まず

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

やましいことがあれば、びくつくものだ

Constant dripping wears away a stone.

点滴石をも穿つ

Constant dropping wears the stone.

点滴岩をも穿つ

Contentment is a better than richies.

足るを知るは、富にまさる

Count not your chickens before they are hatched.

捕らぬ狸の皮算用

Courtesy costs nothing.

礼儀を尽くすに金はいらない

Cowards die mane times before their death.

死ぬ恐怖を何度も味わう

Creaking doors hang the longest.

一病息災

Crime doesn't pay.

犯罪は引き合わないものだ

Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.

素質のない者はダメだ

Curiosity killed the cat.

好奇心もほどほどに

Curses (,like chickens,) come home to roost.

人を呪わば、穴二つ

Custom is a second nature.

習慣は第二の天性

Custom makes all things easy.

習うより慣れろ

Custom reconciles us to everything.

慣れればなんでも平気になる

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

身の程を知れ

Danger past, God forgotten.

喉元過ぎれば暑さ忘れる

Danger past, God forgotten.

苦しいときの神頼み

Dead men tell no tales.

死人に口なし

Death is the great leveller.

死は万人を平等にする

Deeds, not words.

言葉より行為

Desert and reward seldom keep company.

功賞、相伴うはまれなり

Desires are nourished by delays.

欲望は遅れに育まれる

Desperate disease must have desperate remedies.

絶対絶命の病には、荒療治が要る

Discontent is the first step in progress.

不満は進歩の第一歩

Discretion is the better part of valor.

君子危うきに近寄らず

Distance lends enchatment to the view.

離れてみるから、美しくみえる

Do as I say, not as I do.

私のやっていることはともかく、言うことは信頼して欲しい

Do in Rome as the Romans do.

郷に入っては郷に従え

Do not halloa till you are out of the wood.

安心出来るまでは喜ぶな

Do not put new wine into old bottles.

新しい葡萄酒は古い皮袋に入れてはならない

Do not throw pearls to swine.

豚に真珠

Dog does not eat dog.

同族（骨肉）相食まず

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

退却の道を経つな

Don't change horses in the midstream.

やり始めた事を途中で変えるな

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched（they hatch).

捕らぬ狸の皮算用

Don't cross the bridge until you come to it.

取り越し苦労

Don't cut the bough you are standing on.

現在役に立っているものを、軽率に捨てるな

Don't empty the baby out with the bathwater.

うっかり大事なものを捨てるな

Don't exult too much in your victory.

勝って兜の緒を締めよ

Don't forget your first resolution.

初心忘るべからず

Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.

針小棒大

Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you.

毅然としてないと、人にやられる

Don't put all your eggs in one basket　　.

全資産を一つの事業にかけることはするな

Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

今日できることは明日に延ばすな

Don't put the cart before the hoｒse.

本末転倒

Don't take your harp to the party.

いつも同じ話ばかりするものじゃない

Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

孔子に論語

Don't wake a sleeping dog.

やぶ蛇

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

内輪の恥を人目にさらすな

Don't whistle till you are out of the wood.

安心できるまで喜ぶな

Drop by drop fills the tub.

塵も積もれば山となる

Dying is as natural as living.

死を恐れすぎるな

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

早寝早起きすれば、健康で金持ちで賢くなれる

Easier said than done.

言うは易く、行いは難し

East or west, home is best.

何処に行こうとも我が家にまさる所はない

Easy come easy go.

悪銭身に付かず

Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves.

好奇心を持ちすぎるな

Empty vessels make the most sound.

空き樽は音が高い

Enough is as good as a feast.

満腹はごちそうも同様

Even a chance acquaintance is part of one's destiny.

袖振りあうも他生の縁

Even a worm will turn.

一寸の虫にも五分の魂

Even Homer sometimes nods.

猿も木から落ちる

Even Homer sometimes nods.

弘法も筆の誤り

Even Homer sometimes nods.

カッパの川流れ

Every bullet has its billet.

鉄砲玉に当たるも当たらぬも、皆運命

Every cloud has a silver lining.

憂いの反面には喜びがある

Every cock crows (A cock is bold) on its (his) own dunghill.

内弁慶は誰にでも出来る

Every day of thy life is a leaf in thy history.

一日一日が歴史の１ページである

Every dog has his(its) day.

誰にでも得意な時代はある

Every fish that escapes, appears greater than it is.

逃した魚は大きい

Every flow must have its ebb.

欠ければ満つる世の習い

Every Jack has his Jill.

破れ鍋に綴じ蓋

Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.

ほれた目にはあばたもえくぼ

Every man does his own business best.

餅は餅屋

Every man has his particular habit.

無くて７癖

Every man has the defects of his own virtues.

長所が欠点になることあり

Every man is his worst enemy.

最大の敵は自己である

Every miller draws water to his own mill.

我田引水をする

Every oak must be an acorn.

樫の大樹も、もとは皆ドングリ

Every one has his taste.

十人十色

Every potter praises his own pot.

自画自賛

Every rose has its thorn.

棘のない薔薇はなし

Everybody's friend is nobody's friend.

八方美人頼むに足らず

Everything comes to him who waits.

待てば海路の日和あり

Everything has (must have) a biginning.

物事には、みなはじめがある

Everything has its time.

物には時節

Everything in the garden is lovely.

全てが満足、万事順調

Everyting new is fine.

女房と畳は新しい方がよい

Excessive tenderness switched to hundredfold hatred.

かわいさ余って憎さ百倍

Expectation is better than realization.

期待は現実にまさる

Experience counts.

亀の甲より年の功

Experience is the best teacher.

経験は最良の師

Experience is the mother of wisdom.

経験は知恵の母

Experience is the teacher of fools.

賢者は経験せずとも学ぶ

Extremes meet.

両極端は一致する

Fact is stranger than fiction.

事実は小説より奇なり

Failure teaches success.

失敗は成功の元

Faint heart never won fair lady.

男は度胸

Fair words fill not the belly.

色気より食い気

Familiarity breeds contempt.

慣れすぎると、侮りを招く

Far awa fowls have fair feather.

夜目遠目傘のうち

Fast bind, fast find.

しまりが固ければ、失う心配がない

Fear is often greater than the danger.

案ずるより、生むが易し

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

風邪には大食、熱には小食（が良い）

Feed by measure and defy the physician.

腹八分に医者はいらない

Finders keepers (,losers weepers).

拾った者が持ち主（落とした者は、泣きをみる）

Fine feathers make fine birds.

馬子にも衣装

First catch your hare (then cook him).

まず事実を確かめよ

First come, first served.

早い者勝ち

First come,first served.

先んずれば人を制す

First impressions are most lasting.

第一印象が最も長持ちする

First things first.

重要なものから順番に

Fling dirt enough and some willl stick.

嘘でもたくさん言いかければ、多少は信じられる

Fools live poor, to die rich.

宝の持ち腐れ

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

飛んで火に入る夏の虫

Footprints on the sands of time are not mede by sitting down.

時の砂に残る足跡は、ただ座っていて出来るものではない

Forbidden fruit is sweetest.

禁じられた果実が最も甘い

Forewarned is forearmed.

警戒は警備なり

Fortune comes in by a merry gate.

笑う門には福来たる

Fortune favors the bold (brave).

運命の女神は勇者に味方する

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

鬼に金棒

Fortune knocks at least once at every man's gate.

幸運は少なくとも一度は誰の門も叩く

From nothing,nothing can come.

無い袖は振れぬ

Full of courtesy, full of craft.

慇懃過ぎる者には巧知あり

Gather roses while you may.

若いうちに青春を楽しめ

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

悪評の力は恐ろしい

Give credit where credit is due.

（たとえ悪人でも）功績のある者には功績を認めよ

Give him an inch and he'll tale a mile.

軒を貸して母屋を取られる

Give not pearls to the hogs.

猫に小判

Give the devil his due.

少し我が儘を許してやると、ますますつけあがる

Gluttony kills more than the sword.

大食は剣より多く人を殺す

Go to the sea, if you would fish well.

当たって砕けろ

God (providence) is always for (on the side of) the big battalions.

強いものには勝てない

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

盗人にも三分の理

God made the country, and man made the town.

自然は美しい

Good comes out of evil.

災い転じて福となる

Good company on the road is the shortest cut.

旅は道連れ

Good fences make good neighbours.

親しき仲にも礼儀あり

Good wine makes good blood.

酒は百薬の長

Good wine needs no bush.

良い酒には看板は要らない

Good(great) wits jump.

肝胆相照らす

Grasp all, lose all.

欲張りの丸損

Great barkers are no biters.

吠え立てる犬はかみつかない

Great cry and little wool.

大山鳴動してネズミ一匹

Great men show greatness in youth.

栴檀は双葉より芳し

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

大器晩成

Great pains but all in vain.

骨折り損のくたびれ儲け

Great talkers are littel doers.

大口叩きは何もできない

Grief is best placed with grief's company.

同病相哀れむ

Habit is a second nature.

習い性となる

Half the world knows not how the other half lives.

世間の半分は、あとの半分の暮らしを知らない

Handsome is as (that) handsome does.

見た目より心

Happy events tend to be accompanied by problems.　

好事魔多し

Happy is the country that has no history.

歴史なき国は幸いなり

Hard words break no bones.

きつい言葉なら、怪我はない

Harp not for ever on the same string.

始終同じことばかり話すな

Haste is waste.

短気は損気

Haste makes waste.

せいては事をし損じる

Haste trips over its own heels.

急ぐと自分のかかとにつまづく

Having an itch that one cannot scratch.

隔靴掻痒

He catches the wind with a net.

暖簾に腕押し

He cries wine and sells vinegar.

羊頭狗肉

He has brought up a bird to pick out his own eyes.

飼い犬に手をかまれる

He has long arms and a long tongue as well.

口八丁手八丁

He is too old a bird to be cought with chaff.

煮ても焼いても食えぬ

He laughs best who laughs last.

最後に笑うものが一番よく笑う

He must have a long spoon that sups with the devil.

悪者と組む者は、油断も隙もあってはならない

He robs Peter to pay Paul.

人の褌で相撲を取る

He that cannot obey cannot command.

服従できない者は、支配出来ない

He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.

過ちをした者は、人が皆、そのうわさをしていると思うものだ

He that falls today may rise tomorrow.

七転び八起き

He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day.

逃げるが勝ち

He that is in hell knows not what heaven is.

井の中の蛙大海を知らず

He that shoots oft at last shall hit the mark.

下手な鉄砲も数打ちゃ当たる

He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill.

井の中の蛙、大海を知らず

He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.

嘘つきは泥棒の始まり

He that wipes the child's nose kisses the mother's cheek.

敵は本能寺にあり

He that would eat kernel must crack the nut.

それだけの努力をせよ

He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.

将を射んとすれば、まず馬を射よ

He was surrounded by foes.

四面楚歌

He who (that) fights and runs away lives to fight another day.

戦って逃げても生きながらえて、他日また戦う機会がある

He who begins many things, finishes but few.

多くの事に手を出す者は、仕上げるのが少ない

He who denies all confesses all.

全てを否認するは、全てを告白するに同じ

He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.

上手い言葉は、空のスプーン

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

流行に逆らう者もまた、流行の奴隷なり

He who hesitates is lost.

ためらう者は機会を逃す

He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.

失敗は成功の元

He who runs after two hares will catch neither.

二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず

He who sows little reaps little.

蒔かぬ種は生えぬ

He who touches pitch shall be defiled.

朱に交われば赤くなる

He who would search for pearls must dive deep.

虎穴に入らずんば虎児を得ず

He whom the gods love dies young.

佳人薄命

Health is better than wealth.

健康第一

Health is not valued until sickness comes.

健康の価値は病気になるまでわからない

Hear no evil, see no eveil, speak no evil.

見ざる、聞かざる、言わざる

Hear twice before you speak once.

念には念を入れ

Heaven helps those who help themselves.

天は自ら助ける者を助ける

Heaven's vengeance is slow but sure.

天網恢々　疎にして漏らさず

Heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age.

若いときの苦労は買ってでもせよ

Hell and chancery are always open.

悪の道に入るのはたやすい

Hide not your light under a bushel.

謙遜しすぎるな

History repeats itself.

歴史は繰り返す

History repeats itself.

二度あることは、三度ある

Honesty is ill for thriving.

正直者が馬鹿を見る

Honesty is the best policy.

正直は最善の策

Honny is sweet but the bee stings.

ふぐは食いたし命は惜しい

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

望みを得ることが長引くときは心を悩ます

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

また良いこともあろうと楽観して最悪に備えよ

Hope springs eternal (in the human breast).

人間は決して希望を捨てない

Hunger is the best sauce.

空腹にまずいもの無し

Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.

偽善とは悪が善にささげる敬意なり

I cannot be your friend and your flatterer, too.

私はあなたにおべっかを使うような友人にはなれない

I don't care what follows.

後は野となれ山となれ

I know what I do when I drink.

酒は飲むとも飲まれるな

Idle folk have the least leisure.

怠け者に余暇なし

Idleness is the parent of all vice.

小人閑居にして、不善をなす

if a man deceives me once, shame on him;if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

私を一度欺く者には恥あれ、私を二度欺くことあらば、私に恥あれ

If each would sweep before the door, we should have a clean city.

各自が戸口を掃けば、町はきれいになる

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

望みなきとき、心破れる

If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.

一頭が溝を飛び越せば、すべての羊があとから続く

If the cap fits, wear it.

その言葉に思い当たるなら、自分の事と思うが良い

If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.

苦しみがあっての喜び

If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.

雲がなければ太陽の喜びはない

If you can't beat (lick) 'em, join 'em.

長いものには巻かれろ

If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.

無駄な威嚇はやめておけ

If you want a thing well done do it yourself.

成果は人を頼まず

Ignorance is bliss.

無知は幸福

Ignorance is bliss.

知らぬが仏

Ill got, ill spent.

悪銭身に付かず

Ill ware is never cheap.

安物買いの銭失い

Ill weeds grow apace.

憎まれっ子世にはばかる

Ill-gotten(got),ill spent.

悪銭身につかず

Ill　news runs apace.

悪事千里を走る

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

模倣は最も誠意ある追従なり

In a town where thou knowest nobody do whatever thou likest.

旅の恥はかきすて

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed is king.

鳥なき里のこうもり

It is a foolish (an ill) bird that soils (fouls) its own nest.

身近なこと（仲間）を大切にせよ

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.

信頼出来ぬ者に、秘密を語るな

It is a good doctor who follows his own directions.

医者の不養生

It is a long lane that has no turning.

待てば甘露のひよりあり

It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

亭主より女房が強いのは不幸だ

It is a wise father who knows his own child.

親ばか

It is as well to know which way the wind blows.

風向きを知っておくがよい

It is dark at the foot of a candle.

灯台もと暗し

It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.

人の不幸を堪え忍ぶのはたやすいものだ

It is far better to have too much than too little.

大は小を兼ねる

It is hard to labor with an empty belly.

腹が減っては戦はできぬ

It is never too late to mend.

過ちては改むるにはばかる事なかれ

It is no meddling with our betters.

長いものには巻かれろ

It is no use crying over spilt milk.

覆水盆に返らず

It is not necessary to teach a fish to swim.

釈迦に説法

It is rash to sell the bird on the bough.

取らぬ狸の皮算用

It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.

後悔先に立たず

It is useless to flog a dead horse.

過ぎたことは諦めろ

It never rains but it pours.

弱り目に祟り目

It never rains but it pours.

降れば土砂降り

It takes all sorts to make a world.

変わり者もいなければ、世間とは言えない

It takes two to make a quarrel.

相手のいない喧嘩はできない

It's an ill wind that blows nobody (any) good.

甲の損は乙の得

It's dogged (as [that]) does it.

事の成否はがんばり一つ

Jack is as good as his master.

人は皆同じ

Jack of all trades, and master of none.

多芸は無芸

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

人を裁くな、人に裁かれぬためである

Keep something for a rainy day.

備えあれば憂いなし

Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.

元も子もない

Kill two birds with one stone.

一石二鳥

Kill two birds with one stone.

一挙両得

Kind hearts are more than coronets.

優しき心は宝冠にまさる

Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

人の欠点を責める前に、自分の欠点を知れ

Knowledge is power.

知識は力なり

Laborer is worthy his hire.

働く者には報酬がある

Last but not least.

残り物には福がある

Late fruit keeps well.

大器晩成

Laugh and grow fat.

笑う角には福来たる

Laughter is the best medicine.

笑いは百薬の長

Least said, soonest mended.

口は災いの元

Lend your money lose your friend.

金が仇

Less is more.

過ぎたるは及ばざるがごとし

Let a sleeping dog lie.

触らぬ神に祟りなし

Let bygones be bygones.

過去の事は水に流せ

let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

いつまでも怒るな

Let sleeping dogs lie.

触らぬ神に祟りなし

Let the buyer beware.

買ってからでは、手遅れ

Let the cobbler (the cobler shoud) stick to his last.

人は自分の仕事に専念すべきだ

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

旨いものは宵に食え

Let's die together.

死なば諸共

Life is a shadow.

人生は影法師

Life is but an empty dream.

人生夢のごとし

life is short and time is swift.

楽しめるときに楽しめ

life is sweet.

この世は楽し

Light not a candle to the sun.

明々白々の事を、説明するな

Lightly won, lightly held.

得やすきは失いやすし

Lightning never strikes in the same place twice.

ひどい災難は同じ人に二度降りかかることはない

Like a bear to a honey pot.

蟻の甘きに付くがごとし

Like draws to like.

同気相求む

Like father, like son.

この親にしてこの子あり

Like knows like.

英雄相知る

Like master, like man.

似たもの主従

Like mother, like daughter.

この親にして、この子あり

Little strokes fell great oaks.

塵も積もれば山となる

Little things amuse little minds.

小人はつまらないことに興ずる

Live not to eat, but eat to live.

食べるために生きず、生きるために食べろ

Look before you leap.

転ばぬ先の杖

Look before you leap.

石橋をたたいて渡る

Losers are always in the wrong.

勝てば官軍

Love blinds a man to all imperfections.

あばたもえくぼ

Love is blind.

恋は盲目

Love laughs at lock-smiths.

恋には錠前も勝てない

Love me, love my dog.

坊主憎けりゃ袈裟まで憎い

Love the babe for her that bore it.

将を射んとすれば、まず馬を射よ

Love your parents as dearly as your parents love you.

親があなたを思うのと同じように親を思いなさい

Lying and stealing are next-door neighbors.

嘘つきは泥棒の始まり

Make haste slowly.

急がば、回れ

Make hay while the sun shines.

善は急げ

Make hay while the sun shines.

思い立ったが、吉日

Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.

へいへいばかりしてると、甘く見られる

Making a fortune at a stoke.

一攫千金

Man shall not live by bread alone.

人はパンのみにて生きるにあらず

Manners and money make a gentleman.

馬子にも衣装

Many a little makes a mickle.

塵も積もれば山となる

Many a true word is is spoken in jest.

嘘から出た誠

Many hands make light work.

大勢かかれば、仕事は楽になる

Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off.

内心の悪意をうわべの丁重さで隠す

Many strokes fell great oaks.

千里の堤も蟻の穴から

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

卑怯と言われるのが嫌で、勇気を見せる者が多い

Marriage are made in heaven.

偶然に決まる

Marriage is a lottery.

後にならなければ、相手の当たりはずれは、分からない

Marriage is the tomb of life.

結婚は人生の墓場

Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.

あわてて結婚して、ゆっくりと悔やめ

Men are blind in their own cause.

岡目八目

Men are known by the company they keep.

人は交わる友達によって分かる

Men are not to be measured in inches.

人物は背丈では測れない

Men leap over where the hedge is lowest.

楽な道につくものだ

Men make houses , women make home.

男は家屋を作り、女は家庭を作る

Might is right.

勝てば官軍

Might makes right.

無理が通れば道理が引っ込む

Misfortunes never come alone.

弱り目に祟り目

Misfortunes never come singly.

泣きっ面に蜂

Misfortunes seldom come alone.

泣きっ面に蜂

Moeny will do anything.

金の世の中

Money comes and goes.

金は天下の回りもの

Money is the key that opens all doors.

地獄の沙汰も金次第

Money mkes the mare to go.

地獄の沙汰も金次第

Money talks.

金がものを言う

More haste, less(worse) speed.

急がば、回れ

Much meat, much disease.

腹も身の中

Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.

知らぬ間に色々な変化があるものだ

Much would have more.

欲にはキリがない

Murder will out.

殺人（悪事、秘密）は必ず露見する

My God defend me from my friends;I can defend myself from my enemies.

友よりわれを守らせたまえ、敵より身を守ることはできますゆえに

Names and natures often agree.

名は体を表す

Nature is a good mother.

親はなくとも子は育つ

Nature is the best physician.

自然は最良の医師

Necessity is the mother of invention.

必要は発明の母

Need will have its course.

窮すれば通ず

Needs must when the devil drives.

背に腹はかえられぬ

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

借り手にも貸し手にもなるな

Never ask pardon before you are accused.

かえって疑われる

Never confuse art with life.

絵に書いた餅は食べられない

Never do things by halves.

乗りかかった船

Never go looking for trouble. Or seek and you shall find.

犬も歩けば棒に当たる

Never judge by appearances.

見かけで判断するな

Never make two bites of cherry.

一気に出来ることは、一気にやれ

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

今日出来ることは今日のうちに

Never tell your enemy that your foot aches.

わざわざ弱点を知らせることはない

Never too late to learn.

六十の手習い

Never trouble trouble till trouble trouble you.

取り越し苦労はするな

Never trust a stranger.

人を見たら泥棒と思え

Never trust a wolf with the care of lamps.

猫に鰹節

Next year is the devil's joke.

来年のことをいえば鬼が笑う

Ninety percent of inspiration is perspiration.

霊感の９割は発汗にあり

No answer is also an answer.

返事のないのも、また返事

No child knows how dear he is to his parents.

親の心子知らず

No cross, no crown.

困難なくして、栄冠なし

No fathers or mothers think thier own children ugry.

親ばかチャンリン、そば屋の風鈴

No fish is caught twice with the same bait.

二度と同じ手は食わない

No gain without pains.

労せずして効なし

No horse is so well shod that it never slips　.

猿も木から落ちる

No man can serve two masters.

二人の主人には仕えない

No man is indispensable.

かけがえのない人というものは、ないものだ

No man is infallible.

あやまたぬ人はいない

No man is without his faults.

欠点なき人はなし

No mill, no meal.

蒔かぬ種は生えぬ

No news is good news.

便りのないのは良い便り

No remedy but patience.

ならぬ堪忍するが堪忍

No road is long with good company.

旅は道連れ世は情け

No sross, no crown.

困難なくして栄冠はなし

None is so deaf as those who won't hear.

聞こうとしないものほど、耳の聞こえない者はない

None so blind as those who won't see.

馬耳東風

Not good is it to harp on the frayed string.

同じ話ばかりするな

Not to halloo until one is out of the wood.

勝って兜の緒を締めよ

Nothing costs so much as what is given us.

ただより高いものはない

Nothing great is easy.

結果が偉大ならそこに至るまでの課程も苦労があるものだ

Nothing is given as freely as advice.

忠告ぐらい気前よくふるまわれるものはない

Nothing is hard to a willing mind.

好きこそ物の上手なれ

Nothing is lost for asking.

聞くは一時の恥、聞かぬは一生の恥

Nothing ventured nothing gained.

虎穴に入らずんば虎児を得ず

Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.

柳の枝に雪折れなし

Offence is the best defense.

攻撃は最前の防御なり

Old age tires both body and soul.

寄る年波には勝てない

Old love is renewed again.

元の鞘に収まる

Once a beggar, always a beggar.

乞食は三日もやれば止められない

One beats the bush, and another catches the birds.

労する者と、上がりを吸い上げる者がある

One cannot put back the clock.

時計は逆には戻せない

One foot is better than two crutches.

あるものに甘んじよ

One good turn deserves another.

情けは人のためならず

One ill word asks another.

売り言葉に買い言葉

One instance shows all the rest.

一事が万事

One is never too old to learn.

八十の手習い

One lie makes many.

一つの嘘は多くの嘘を生む

One man sows and another man reaps.

横取りする

One man's fault is another man's lesson.

人の振り見てわが振り直せ

One man's meat is another man's poison.

毒も薬も人によりけり

One must drink as one brews.

自業自得

One must lie in the bed one has made.

背に腹はかえられぬ

One of these days is none of these days.

いずれそのうちという日はない

One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands.

逃げるが勝ち

One pucture is worth a thousand words.

百聞は一見にしかず

One should not interfere in lovers' quarrels

夫婦げんかは犬も食わない

One swallow does not make a summer.

早合点は禁物

One tongue is enough for two women.

女３人寄れば、かしましい

One volunteer is worth two pressed men.

やる気のある人の方が役に立つ

One will have to reap what one has sown.

因果応報

Only the weather knows where the shoe pinches.

靴の痛いところは、履いている者にしか分からない

Open confession is good for the soul.

率直な告白は心を安らげる

Opportunity seldom knocks twice.

好機逃すべからず

Other times, other manners.

移れば変わる世の習い

Out of debt, out of danger.

借金なければ、危険なし

Out of sight, out of mind.

去る者は日々に疎し

Out of the flying pan into the fire.

一難去って、また一難

Out of the mouth comes evil.

口は災いの元

Over shoes, over boots.

毒を食らえば、皿まで

Paddle your own canoe.

人を頼るな

Pardon all but thyself.

あなた以外の者をすべて許しなさい

Patience and application will carry us through.

石の上にも３年

Patience provoked turns to fury.

堪忍袋の緒が切れる

Peny wise and pound foolish.

一文惜しみの百知らず

People will talk.

人の口に戸は立てられない

People(those) who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

弱みを持つ者は（自分のことを棚に上げて）人に文句は言ってはいけない

Perseverance will win in the end.

石の上にも３年

Pity is akin to love.

憐れみは恋に通ずる

Pleasant hours fly fast.

愉しい時は速く過ぎ去る

Pleasure is the source of pain.

楽あれば苦あり

Politeness is not just for strangers.

親しき仲にも礼儀あり

Poor men have no leisure.

貧乏暇なし

Poverty is a stranger to industry.

稼ぐに追いつく貧乏無し

Practice makes perfect.

習うより慣れよ

Practice what you preach.

まず隗より始めよ

Prefer the devil one knows to the one (devil) one doesn't know.

正体不明の災いよりも正体の分かっている災いの方が良い

Preserverance under difficulties.

臥薪嘗胆

Pride goes before a fall.

おごれるものは久しからず

Pride will have a fall.

おごれる者久しからず

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

繁栄は友を作り、逆境は友を試す

Protect yourself at all points.

頭隠して尻隠さず

Providing is prevenｔing.

備えあれば憂いなし

Pudding rather than praise.

花より団子

Quick resentments are often fatal.

短気は損

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

そのうちに良くなるさ

Rest comes from unrest and unrest comes from rest.

楽は苦の種苦は楽の種

Returning evil for good.

恩を仇で返す

Rome was not built in a day.

ローマは一日にして成らず

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

人間万事塞翁が馬

Save up for a rainy day.

備えあれば憂いなし

Science gives consent.

沈黙は承諾の印

Scratch my back and I will scratch yours.

魚心あれば水心

Security is the greatest enemy.

油断大敵

See Naples and die.

日光を見ずして結構と言うなかれ

Seeing is believing.

百聞は一見にしかず

Self do, self have.

身から出た錆

Sense comes with age.

亀の甲より年の功

Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.

貧乏人が金を持つと、傲慢になる

Set a thief to catch a thief.

蛇の道は蛇

Set your sail according to the wind.

得手に帆をあげよ

Shoemakers' children go barefoot.

紺屋の白袴

Short accounts make long friends.

長く付き合うには、掛けは禁物

Sleep and wait for good luck.

果報は寝て待て

So many countries ; so many customs

所変われば品変わる

So many men, so many minds.

十人十色

Something is better than nothing.

あるはないに勝る

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

損して得を取れ

Soon got, soon gone.

悪銭身に付かず

Soon ripe, soon rotten.

大器晩成

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

可愛い子には旅をさせろ

Speak well of the dead.

死んだ者のことはほめよ

Speech is silver, silence is gold.

雄弁は銀、沈黙は金

Speech is silver, silence is gold.

言わぬが花

Step after step goes far.

百里の道も一歩から

Sticks and stones will(may) break my bones, but names(words) can never hurt me.

棒きれや石じゃなし

Still waters run deep.

能ある鷹は爪を隠す

Still waters run deep.

賢者は黙して語らず

Storm makes oaks take deeper root.

雨降って地固まる

Strike the iron while it is hot.

鉄は熱いうちに打て

Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

一度不法に甘んずれば、また不法を招くことにな

Success is never blamed.

勝てば官軍負ければ賊

Take not a musket to kill a butterfly.

大げさなことはするな

Take the lead, and you will win.

先んずれば人を制す

Talk of the devil, and he'll appeare.

噂をすれば影

Talking to a brick-wall.

馬の耳に念仏

Tall trees catch much wind.

優れている者には風当たりが強い

Teach a dog to bark!.

釈迦に説法

Tears from the hardest heart.

鬼の目にも涙

That which comes from the heart will go to the heart.

以心伝心

The apple never falls far from the tree.

この親にして　この子あり

The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

人の物はよく見える

The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin.

過ぎたるは及ばざるがごとし　

The beaten road is the safest.

踏みならされた道が一番安全

The belly has no ears.

衣食足りて、礼節を知る

The best driver will something upset.

弘法も筆の誤り　

The best fish smell when they are three days old.

いくら良い魚でも３日経つと腐る

The best fish swims near the botom.

良いものは簡単には手に入らない

The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching.

どんなに優れている者でも訓練しなければ伸びない

The best thing in travelling is a companion;in the world kindness.

旅は道連れ世は情け

The best thing to do now is to run away.

三十六計逃げるにしかず

The best way to defend is to attack　（Attack is the best defense）.

守るばかりが防御ではない

The biter is sometimes bitten.

ミイラ取りがミイラになる

The bull must be taken by the horns.

恐るべき者に対するには、まともにぶつかる方が、かえって良い

The child is (the) father of (to) the man.

三つ子の魂百まで

The cobbler's wife goes the worst shod.

紺屋の白袴

The cowl does not make the monk.

僧服、僧を作らず

The danger past, and God fogotten.

喉元過ぎれば暑さ忘れる

The darkest hour is that before the dawn.

まもなく事態は好転しよう

The day's plan should be made out early in the morning .

一年の計は元旦にあり

The dependant is timid.

居候の３杯目

The devil finds work for idle hands.

小人閑居にして、不善をなす

The devil has the best tunes.

悪人の方が善人よりも楽しい思いをする

The devil is not so black as he is painted.

全くの悪人というものはいない

The devil looks after his own.

憎まれっ子世にはばかる

The die is cast.

賽は投げられた

The eagle does not catch flies.

渇しても盗泉の水は飲まず

The early bird catches(gets) the worm.

早起きは三文の得

The end justifies the means.

結果良ければすべて良し

The end justifies the means.

うそも方便

The end of money is the end of love.

金の切れ目が縁の切れ目

The exception proves the rule.

例外のない規則はない

The eye is bigger than the belly.

満腹しても、まだ食べたがるもの

The eye is the window of the soul.

目は心の窓である

The eyes have one language everywhere.

目は口ほどにものを言う

The fairest rose is at last withered.

美しいバラもいつかは萎れる

The father's sins are visited on the children.

親の因果が子に報い

The fewer the better cheer.

ごちそうは少人数ほど良い

The first blow is half the battle.

先手必勝

The fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait.

何事にでも好奇心を持つのは良くない

The golden age was never the present age.

黄金時代が現代であった試しはない

The grass is greener (on the other side of the　hill[fence]).

よその芝生は（うちの芝生より）青く見える

The gray mare is the better horse.

かかあ天下である

The greater embraces the less.

大は小を兼ねる

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

次代をになう若者を育てるのは、母である

The heart's letter is read in the eyes.

目は口ほどにものを言う

The highest branch is not the safest roost.

高位にあれば、危険も多い

The husband is always the last to know.

知らぬは亭主ばかりなり

The last drop makes the cup run over.

最後の一滴でコップがあふれる

The law is not the same at morning and at night.

朝令暮改

The longest day must have an end.

嫌なことも、いつかは終わる

The mills of god grind slowly(, but they grind exceedingly small).

天網恢々疎にして漏らさず（悪いことをすれば、必ず天罰が下る）

The mills of God grind slowly,(but they grind exceedingly small).

天の報いも時には遅れるが必ず行われる

The more haste, the less speed.

急がば、回れ

The more one has, the more one want.

欲にはキリがない

The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.

一つのことだけに頼るのは危険

The nearer to the church, the farther from God.

教会経営と信仰生活は平行しがたい

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

果報は寝て待て　

The old generation must make way for the new,

おいては子に従え

The one that got away is always the biggest.

逃がした魚は大きい

The pen is mighter than the sword.

ペンは剣よりもつよし

The pig prefers mud to clear water.

蓼食う者も好きずき

The poor have no leisure.

貧乏暇なし

The pot calls kettle black.

五十歩百歩

The race is not to the swift,nor the battle to the strong.

勝負は時の運

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

意図するところは良くても、成功するとは限らない

The rotten apple injures its neighbor.

良くない人物、因子は　周りに悪影響を与える

The son is known by his father.

親の顔が見たい

The sooner, the better.

早ければ早い程良い

The spirit is willing , but the flesh is weak.

心は熱すれども、肉体弱気なり

The study of vain things is laborious idleness.

骨折り損のくたびれ儲け　

The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill.

善人は環境に染まらない

The tailor makes the man.

馬子にも衣装

The tree is known by the fruit.

実を見て木を知れ

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

男の心をとらえるには、胃袋から

The weakest goes to the wall.

弱者は負けるー弱肉強食

The whole year's plans are made on New Year's Day.

一年の計は元旦にあり

The wind in one's face makes one wise.

逆境は人を賢くする

The wise man never courts danger.

君子危うきに近寄らず　

The wish is father to the thought.

そうあれかしと願っていると、そうだと信じるようになる

The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks.

蛇の道は蛇

The worst wheel of the cart creaks most.

だめなやつは文句が多い

There are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with cream.

方法は様々

There are none so deafs as those who won't hear.

心ここに在らざれば聞けども聴こえず

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

落胆するな

There are(is) as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

好機はいくらも残っている

There is a destiny that makes us brothers.

袖触れあうも多生の縁

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

苦は楽の種

There is a pot(crock) of gold at the end of the rainbow.

決して得られることのない報い

There is a time and (a) place (for everything).

物事にはそれにふさわしい時と場所（潮時）というものがある

There is a time to speak and a time to be speak.

物言う時あり、黙る時あり

There is always a next time.

必ず又の機会が来る

There is honor among thieves.

仲間の物は盗まない

There is kindness to be found everywhere.

渡る世間に鬼はなし

There is more pleasure in loving than in being loved.

愛されるより愛する方がすばらしい

There is no accounting for taste.

蓼食う者も好きずき

There is no garden without weeds.

雑草のない庭はない

There is no place like home.

我が家程良いところはない

There is no place like home.

家程良いところはない

There is no royal road to learning.

学問に王道なし

There is no rule but has exceptions.

例外のない規則はない

There is no telling which two will make a couple.

縁は異なもの

There is no treasure more precious than a child.

子に過ぎたる宝なし

There is no trusting in appearances.

人は見かけによらぬもの

There is no wheat without chaff.

真価はくだらない外観の下に隠れている

There is nothing new under the sun.

この世に全く新しきものなし

There is nothing permanent except change.

変化の他は変化せぬものなし

There is one born every minute.

だまされやすい者はいつでもいるもんだ

There's a black sheep in every flock.

どこの家にも困りものはいるものだ

There's always (a) next time.

必ずまたの機会があるものだ

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

年は取ってもいろいろな能力はある

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

冗談が本当になることがある

There's no time(No time) like the present.

今にまさる好機はない.

There's nothing like home.

我が家にまさる所はない

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

全くついていた

They brag most who can do least.

一番出来ない者が、一番自慢する

Those loved by many are liable to untimely death.

多くの人に愛されるものは若死にしやすい

Those who live in glasshouse should not throw stones.

自分に弱みのある者が人を非難すれば、自分もその弱みをつかれる（やぶ蛇）

Those whom the gods love die young.

美人薄命

Through obedience learn to command.

服従することによって、支配することを学べ

Time and tide wait for no man.

歳月人を待たず

Time flies( like an arrow ).

光陰矢のごとし

Time is money.

時は金なり

Time is the great healer.

時が経てば、悲しみなども薄らぐもの

Time wears away love.

惚れたはれたは当座のうち

Times change　.

時勢は移る

To carry coals to Newcastle.

屋上屋を架す　

To cast water into the Thames.

焼け石に水

To dig a well to put out a house on fire.

後の祭り

To every bird his own nest is best.

住めば都

To fish in the air,to hunt in the sea.

木によって魚を求む　

To go up like a rocket and come down like a stick..

頭でっかち尻つぼみ

To know all is to forgive(pardon) all.

理由が分かれば許したくなる

To know is one thing, and it's quite another thing to teach.

学者必ずしも良師ではない

To lock the stable when the horse is stolen.

盗人を捕らえて縄をなう

To lose is to win.

負けるが勝ち

To mention the wolf's name is to see the same.

噂をすれば影

To sail in the same boat.

一蓮托生

To see is to believe.

論より証拠

To see is to believe.

百聞は一見にしかず

To see it rains is better than to be in it.

高みの見物

To try the patience of a saint.

仏のお顔も三度

Tomorrow is another day.

明日は明日の風が吹く

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

船頭多くして船、山に登る

Too much curiosity lost Paradise.

過ぎたる好奇心は楽園を失う

Too much is as bad as too little.

過ぎたるは なお及ばざるが如し

Too much spoils, too little is nothing.

帯に短し、襷に長し

Too much water drowned the miller.

過ぎたるは なお及ばざるが如し

Toward evening the lazy man beings to be busy.

怠け者の節句働き　

Truth is stranger than fiction.

事実は小説より奇なり　

Two blacks do not make a white.

人もやってるからといって、自分の悪事が正当化されるわけじゃない

Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

漁夫の利

Two heads are better than one.

三人寄れば文殊の知恵

Two kings in one kingdom cannot reign at once.

両雄並び立たず

Ｔhe fault of another is a good teacher.

他山の石

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

偉大なる者には安まる時はない

Unexpected things often happen.

瓢箪から駒

Union is strength.

団結は力なり

Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.

良薬は口に苦し

Use the means and God will give the blessing.

人事を尽くして天命を待つ

Wake not a sleeping lion.

眠っているライオンを起こすな

Wake not a sleeping lion.

寝た子を起こすな

Walls have ears.

壁に耳あり障子に目あり

Wash your dirty linen at home.

臭いものには蓋

Waste not, want not.

無駄をしなければ、不足も起こらない

Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowing man curses it.

欲しいものはなく、欲しくないものは余ってるものだ

We cannot see the wood for the trees

木を見て森を見ず