英語のことわざ・日本のことわざ『ま行』 - 英語の諺・日本の諺【みんなの知識ちょっと便利帳】

英語（えいご）のことわざ・日本（にほん）のことわざ

[ Proverbs in English・日本（にほん）の諺（のことわざ） ]

諺（ことわざ）や、格言（かくげん）、慣用句（かんようく）などの日本（にほん）での言い回しと、英語（えいご）での表現の一覧です。
日本語（にほんご）と英語（えいご）を対比させていますが、文化や生活習慣の違いから、それぞれが全く同じ言葉や表現であるとは限りません。意味合いが近い言葉の例としてそのいくつかを掲載しています。
例えば、風流より実利、外観より実質という喩えの「花より団子」を、英語の表現としてはパンと小鳥のさえずりを用いた「Bread is better than the songs of birds. （鳥のさえずりよりもパンのほうがよい）」を例としてあげました。
また、日本には「日光を見ずして結構というなかれ」という言葉がありますが、これに似たニュアンスの英語として「See Naples and then die. （ナポリを見て死ね）」をあげています。「覆水盆に返らず」の「 It is no use crying over spilt milk. （こぼした牛乳を嘆いても無駄）」なども同じです。

蒔いた種は刈らねばならぬ	As a man sows, so shall he reap.
蒔（ま）かぬ種は生えぬ	Better late than never. No gain without pain. No pains, no gains. No mill, no meal. You cannot make an omlet without breaking eggs. Nothing comes of nothing.　⇒ 無から有は生じない Never shoot never hit. You must sow before you can reap.
負け惜しみの減らず口	The grapes are sour.
負けるが勝ち	Better bend than break. To stoop to conquer. Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.
馬子（まご）にも衣装	The tailor makes the man. Fine feathers make fine birds. Fine clothes make the man. Clothes make the man.
まさかの時の友は真の友	A friend in need is a friend indeed.
待つ身のつらさ = 待つ身は長い	A watched pot never boils. A watched pan never boils.
待てば海路（かいろ）の日和（ひより）あり	Everything comes to him who waits. All things come to him who waits. After a storm comes a calm. It is a long lane that has no turning. What goes around comes around.

ミイラ取りがミイラになる	The biter is sometimes bit. Many go out for wool and come home shorn.
身（み）から出た錆（さび）	As you sow, so must you reap. An ill life, an ill end. Self do self have. Having made one's bed, one must lie on it. You'll just have to stew in your own juice. You've only yourself to thank for this mess.
水は低きに流る = 水の低きに就く如し	Water seeks its own level.
三日天下	Today a king, tomorrow nothing.
三日坊主	Soon hot, soon cold.
三つ子の魂百まで／三つ子の魂百までも	An old dog cannot alter his way of darking. The child is father of the man. The child is the father of the man. What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. As the twig is bent (, so grows the tree).
実るほど頭を垂れる稲穂かな	The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
見目（みめ）より心	Handsome is as handsome does. Handsome is that handsome does.

昔取った杵柄（きねづか）	What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
無から有は生じない　⇒ 蒔かぬ種は生えぬ	Nothing comes of nothing.
無理が通れば道理が引っ込む	Might is right. When might is master, justice is servant.

目糞鼻糞を笑う = 五十歩百歩（ごじっぽひゃっぽ）	The pot calls the kettle black. It's six of one and a half dozen of the other.
目には目を、歯には歯を	An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
目は口ほどにものを言う	The eyes have one language everywhere. The heart's letter is read in the eyes.
目は心の鏡	The eyes are the window of the soul. The eyes are the window of the heart.

持ちつ持たれつ	Give and take.
餅は餅屋	Every man knows his own business best. Every man does his own business best.
元の木阿弥（もくあみ）	He turns to his old bias again.
求めよさらば与えられん	Ask, and it shall be given you.
物言えば唇寒し = 口は災いの元	Out of the mouth comes evil.
物は言いよう／物は言い様で角が立つ	Smooth words make smooth ways. A good tale ill told is a bad one. It’s not what you say, but how you say it.
物は試し	You never know till you have tried. You never know what you can do till you try.
貰うものは夏でも小袖	Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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