英語の諺 「4 words」編 はじめに
英語の諺には「4 words」で構成されている諺があります。簡潔であることは知恵のレベルも高いということでもあります。*以前、このブログでランダムに紹介した1,400の英語の諺の中から、195の諺を選んであります。多少、加筆や修正を行いました。■「4 words」の諺1 After me the deluge.2 After pleasure comes pain.3 All geese are swans.4 All pain, no gain.5 Ambition makes people diligent.6 Apparel makes the man.7 Bad news has wings.8 Bad news travels fast.9 Barking dogs seldom bite.10 Beauty is only skin-deep.11 Beauty opens locked doors.12 Beggars cannot be choosers.13 Belly has no ears.14 Better bend than break.15 Better late than never.16 Better leave it unsaid.17 Better safe than sorry.18 Blood will have blood.19 Both eloquent and skilled.20 Boys will be boys.21 But me no buts. 22 Crime does not pay.23 Curiosity killed the cat.24 Dead men don't bite.25 Death keeps no calendar.26 Death pays all debts.27 Don't miss the bus.28 Dreams go by contraries.29 Eagles eat no flies.30 Easier said than done.31 East, West, home's best.32 Easy come, easy go.33 Even Homer sometimes nods.34 Everybody loves a lord.35 Everything has a beginning.36 Experience must be bought.37 Facts are stubborn things.38 Fight fire with fire.39 First catch the hare.40 First come, first served.41 Forbidden fruit is sweetest.42 Fortune favors the brave.43 Garbage in, garbage out.44 Give everyone his due.45 Good watch prevents misfortune. 46 Grasp all, lose all.47 Great bodies move slowly.48 Great minds think alike.49 Great profits, great risks.50 Habit is second nature.51 Harm watch harm catch.52 Health is above wealth.53 Honesty does not pay.54 Hunger has no law.55 Ill got, ill spent.56 Ill weeds grow apace.57 It takes all sorts.58 It's dogged does it.59 Keep your chin up.60 Kings have long arms.61 Know your own bounds.62 Last but not least.63 Last come, last served.64 Laugh and grow fat.65 Learn from other’s mistakes. 66 Least said soonest mended.67 Let bygones be bygones.68 Let sleeping dogs lie.69 Let the buyer beware.70 Let them eat cake.71 Liberty is a jewel.72 Liberty is not licence.73 Life begins at forty.74 Life is a span.75 Like father, like son.76 Like master, like man. 77 Like mother, like daughter.78 Little wealth, little care.79 Live and let live.80 Look before you leap.81 Love can cure anything.82 Love laughs at locksmiths.83 Love needs no teaching.84 Love sees no faults.85 Man proposes, God disposes.86 Many dishes many diseases.87 Measure twice, cut once.88 Meet evil with evil.89 Mind your own business.90 Misfortune makes strange bedfellows.97 Misfortune never comes singly.92 Misfortunes seldom come alone.93 Moderation in all things.94 Money comes and goes.95 Money makes a man.96 Money opens all doors.97 Monkey see, monkey do.98 More haste, less speed.99 Morning dreams come true.100 Much ado about nothing.101 Narrow gathered, widely spent.102 Necessity knows no laws.103 Never meet trouble half-way.104 New brooms sweep clean.105 No cross, no crown.106 No gain without pain.107 No garden without weeds.108 No joy without alloy.109 No man is indispensable.110 No man is infallible.111 No medicine for fear.112 No mill, no meal.113 No pain, no gain.114 No pleasure without pain.115 Nothing comes of nothing.116 Nothing seek, nothing find.117 Nothing succeeds like success.118 Nothing venture, nothing gain.119 Nurture is above nature.120 Old habits die hard.121 Old soldier never die.122 Once bitten, twice shy.123 One instance shows all.124 One lie makes many.125 Only virtue never dies.126 Opportunity knocks but once.127 Opportunity makes a thief.128 Opportunity never knocks twice.129 Other times, other manners.130 Over shoes over boots.31 Paddle your own canoe.132 Pardon all but thyself.133 Patience is a virtue.134 Patience wears out stones.135 Patience wins the day.136 Penny wise, pound foolish.137 Politics makes strange bedfellows.138 Poverty dulls the wit.139 Poverty is no sin.140 Practice what you preach.141 Pride feels no pain.142 Pudding rather than praise.143 Ready money will away.144 Repentance comes too late.145 Returning evil for good.146 Rip up old sores.147 Rust from the body.148 Save for rainy day.149 Second thoughts are best.150 See Naples and die.151 Seek and ye find.152 Seldom sick sore sick.153 Self do self have.154 Share and share alike.155 Shoemakers ' children go barefoot.156 Shrouds have no pockets.157 Soon learnt, soon forgotten.158 Soon ripe, soon rotten.159 Sorrow comes unsent for.160 Standing pools gather filth.161 Still waters run deep.162 Success is never blamed.163 Talk of the Devil.164 Talking to a brick-wall.165 Ten years is ample.166 The best is behind.167 The dependent is timid.168 The die is cast.169 The doctor after death. 170 The end crowns all.171 The good die young.172 The grapes are sour.173 The more, the merrier.174 The older, the wiser.175 The sun shines everywhere.176 The truth will out.177 The unexpected always happens.178 Things come in three’s.179 Time heals all wounds.180 Time wears away love.181 To err is human.182 To fudge the count.183 Today you, tomorrow me.184 Tomorrow is another day.185 Travel broadens the mind.186 Truth is time's daughter.187 Up corn, down horn.188 Waste not, want not.189 We learn by teaching.190 Well fed, well bred.191 Writing destroys the memory.192 Yield to the powerful.193 You can't please everyone.194 Youth will be served.195 Looks can be deceiving.196 Poverty dulls the wit.