2023年夏まで連載していました「英語の諺」をテーマ別に再構成したものを連載します。
英語の諺には「love」をテーマにした諺、あるいは「love」を動詞として使用した諺が数多くあります。ここでは、「love」を肯定的に捉えた諺、否定的な諺、中立的な諺、そして、動詞とて使用している諺にわけて、このブログで順次紹介します。
＊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、42の諺を選んであります。多少、加筆や修正を行いました。
■「love」に肯定的な諺
１ All is fair in love and war.
２ Love and a cough cannot be hid.
３ Love begets love.
４ Love can cure anything.
５ Love conquers all.
６ Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.
７ Love is the reward of love.
８ Love laughs at locksmiths.
９ Love makes the world go round.
10 Love needs no teaching.
11 Love overcomes all.
12 Love will find a way.
■「love」に否定的な諺
13 Jupiter laughs at lovers’ perjuries.
14 Love is blind.
15 Love lasts as long as money endures.
16 Love not at the first look.
17 Love sees no faults.
18 No herb will cure love.
19 One cannot love and be wise.
20 One should not interfere in lovers' quarrels.
21 Pity is akin to love.
■「love」に中立的な諺
22 Hasty love is soon hot and soon cold.
23 Look your best – who said love is blind?
24 Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
25 Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
26 Marriage is the tomb of love.
27 Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women like to be a man’s last romance.
28 Natural love descends but it does not ascend.
29 Praise the child, and ypu make love to the mother.
30 The end of money is the end of love.
31 The greatest hate proceeds from the greatest love.
32 Time wears away love.
33 To love cake rather than love make.
34 When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
■「love」が動詞として使われている諺
35 Everybody loves a lord.
36 If you love your child, send him out on a journey.
37 Love me little, love me long.
38 Love me, love my dog.
39 Love your enemies.
40 Love your friend with his fault.
41 Misery loves company.
42 Whom God loves, his bitch brings forth pigs.