Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Often attributed to Will Graves

ことわざ

who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl

1. A person tends to take on the characteristics of those with whom he or she associates.
   • 2012, Yukiko Inoue-Smith, A Shawl of Mist: Tanka, →ISBN:

     Do not associate with a person who is malicious, selfish, or unkind As a proverb goes, “Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl” (in other words, “If you touch vermillion, you will become of the same color”).

   • 2015, Yukiko Inoue-Smith, A Jungle Named Academia: Approaches to Self-Development and Growth, →ISBN:

     Do not associate with a person who is malicious, selfish, or unkind As people say, “Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl."

   • 2015, A. Joy Lee, Success inside you:

     Believe it or not but you one way or another have the same bad aspects in your personality. “Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl” is said for a reason.

同意語

• if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas
• if you fly with the crows, you get shot with the crows

参考

• a man is known by the company he keeps