英语谚语大全
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1 ) He who has health has hope. 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧
2 ) Liberty is the right to do everything which the laws allow.
自由就是在法律允许下的范围下有权做任何事
3 ) Two heads are better than one.
三个臭皮匠，胜过一个诸葛亮
4 ) Misery loves company. (It never rains but pours.) 祸不单行
5 ) It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.
宁愿赢得和平而输掉战争
6 ) God's mill grinds slow but sure. . 天网恢恢，疏而不漏
7 ) It takes all sorts to make a world. 一种米养百种人 (
世界是形形色色的人所组成的)
8 ) There are two sides to every question.
每个问题都有正反两面看法 (
公说公有礼，婆说婆有礼)
9 ) Rome was not built in a day. 罗马不是一天造成的
10) Self-trust is the first secret of success.
自信是成功的第一秘诀
11) Every man has his taste. 人各有所好
12) Experience is the extract of suffering.
.经验是由痛苦中粹取出来的
13) Imagination is more important than knowledge.
想象力比知识更重要
14) Words cut more than swords. 舌剑利于刀剑
15) The leopard cannot change his spots. / Leopards cannot change their
spots.
江山易改，本性难移
16) The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.
心灵的财富才是唯一真正的财富
17) Love makes the world go round. 爱使世界运转
18) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 情人眼里出西施
19) Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking
together in same direction.
.爱并不在于彼此相对
20) Failure is the mother of success. / Failure teaches success.
失败乃成功之母
21) Life is not merely living but living in health.
..生活不只要活，而且要活的健康
22) There is no rose without a thorn. ..朵朵玫瑰皆有刺
(没有十全十美的人生)
23) What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
人真正珍惜的是未得到的，而不是所拥有的
24) Trust men and they will be true to you.
相信他们，他们才会对你忠诚( 信人者人恒信之)
25) An eye for an eye, and we will all go blind.
以牙还牙，两败俱伤 (以眼还眼使我们全都瞎眼)
26) A bad penny always comes back. 恶有恶报
27) Pardon is the most glorious revenge. 宽恕是最伟大的报复.
28) Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
保持耐性是痛苦的，但它的果实是甜美的
29) He who has hope has everything. ..拥有希望的人拥有一切
30) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
.....没有热诚难成大事
31) Time flies. 时光飞逝
32) Time is money. 时间就是金钱
33) Tomorrow never comes. 明天永不来
34) Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧
35) Unity is strength. 团结就是力量
36) Knowledge is power. 知识就是力量
37) Might is right. 强权就是公理
38) Live and learn. 活到老，学到老
39) Haste makes waste. 欲速则不达
40) Seeing is believing. 百闻不如一见
41) An uncut gem goes not sparkle. 玉不琢，不成器。
42) It is as well to know which way the wind blows.
识时务者为俊杰。
43) Sow nothing, reap nothing. 无功不受禄 。
44) A word once spoken can never be recalled.
一言既出，驷马难追。
45) To entertain an angel unawares. 有眼不识泰山。
46) While the grass grows the horse starves. 远水解不了近渴 。
47) If you live with a lame person you will learn to limp. 近朱者赤
近墨者黑。
48) Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
今日事今日毕
49) Give him an inch and he'll take a yard. 得寸进尺
50) It is more blessed to give than to receive. 施比受更有福
Absence and Presence （在与不在）
1.Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.
离别削减小爱，却增添大爱。
2. Absence is mother of disillusion.
疏离是觉悟之母。
3. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
小别情更浓。小别胜新婚。
4. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
相聚爱益切，离别情更深。.
5. Absent in body, but present in spirit. 。
肉身虽不在，精神却不死。永垂不朽
6. Far from eye, far from heart.
离眼远，离心远。 眼不见，心不念。
7. He that fears you present will hate you absent.
在你面前怕你的人，在你背后恨你。
8. If a person is away, his right is away. [Moorish Proverb]
人若不在场，他的权利就会丧失。（摩尔谚语）
9. Long absence changes a friend.
久别朋友变。
10. Long absent, soon forgotten.
久别情疏。
11. Man are best loved farthest off.
相隔最遥远的人最为人疼爱。
12. Out of sight, out of mind. OR
Far from eye, far from heart.
眼不见，心不念。
13. Salt water and absence wash away love.
远离久别，恩情疏。
14. The absent are always in the wrong.
谁人背后无人说，哪个人前不说人。
15. The absent are never with fault, nor the present without excuse.
缺席者绝对没有不对，出席者也不会没有借口。
16. When the cat's away, the mice will play.
猫儿不在，老鼠做怪。阎王不在，小鬼做怪。
17. Who takes a lion when he is absent, fears a mouse present. 。
趁狮子不在时取而代之者, 却怕老鼠的存在。
18. Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
此地无银三百两。
Actions and Words （行动与空谈）
1. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
一个光说不做的人好像一个花园，里面长满都是野草。
2. A word before is worth two behind.
事前一句胜过事后两句
3. A word is enough to the wise.
智者一点就明
4. A word spoken is an arrow let fly.
一言既出，如箭射出。
5. Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
行动是知识的卓越果实。
6. Better to sail slowly than not to sail at all.
完全停滞不前不如慢慢驶向前。
7. Brave actions never want a trumpet.
英勇的行为永远不需要吹嘘。
8. Business is the salt of life; business and action strengthen the
brain.
商务是生命之盐，商务和行动增强脑力。
9. Deeds are males, and words are females.
「做」是男人的事，「说」是女人的事。
10. Deeds, not words.
在于行动，不在于言语。说得到，做得到。言出必行。
11. Few words are best.
少说为妙。
12. Fine words butter no parsnips.
花言巧语不能滋润防风草。口惠而实不至。
13. Fine words dress ill deeds.
巧言藏恶行。好话说尽，坏事做尽。说一套，做一套。
14. Good words cost nothing, but are worth much. [Thomas Fuller]
良言本无价，其贵值千金。（富勒）
15. Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
口惠而实不至。
17. Hard words break no bones.
恶言伤不到人心。笑骂由他笑骂。
18. He is noble who feels and acts nobly.
显贵的人总是思想崇高和举止优雅。
19. He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
花言巧语的人常以空匙喂人。巧言令色鲜矣仁。
Advice and Counsel （忠告与建议 ）
1. A woman's advice is no great thing, but he who won't take it is
a fool.
女人的忠告虽不是怎么大不了的事，若不接受，便是傻瓜。
2. Advice is a stranger, if welcome he stays for the night; if not
welcome he returns home the same day. [African Proverb]
忠告是一位陌生客，若受欢迎，则停留过夜；不受欢迎，当天就要回家。（非洲谚语）
3. Advice when most needed is least heeded.
良言于最需要时最不受重视。忠言逆耳。
4. Advice whispered is worthless.
窃窃私语的忠告毫无价值可言。
5. An enemy may chance to give good counsel.
敌人也可能给人好的忠告。
6. Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
愤怒和急迫足以误大计。小不忍则乱大谋。
7. Come not to counsel uncalled.
人之患在好为人师。
8. Counsel is to be given by the wise, the remedy by the rich.
忠告一定来自智者，救助一定来自富人。
9. Counsel must be followed, not praised.
忠告一定要遵守，不是要称赞。
10. Counsel without help is useless.
没有实质帮助的忠告亳无用处。
11. Counsels in wine seldom prosper.
酒杯空言少见成效。
12. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
别班门弄斧。
13. Good counsel has no price. (Good counsel is beyond price.)
良言乃无价之宝。
14. Good counsel never comes amiss.
好的忠告绝不会出差错。
15. Good counsel never comes too late.
好的忠告绝不会来得太晚。
16. If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.
计策若佳则勿问策划者是谁。从善如流。
17. If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
老马识途。
18. Ill counsel mars all.
不好的忠告损毁一切。
19. One gives nothing so liberally as advice. (Nothing is given so
freely as advice.)
没有任何东西像忠告那么慷慨。
20. Self is a bad counselor.
利己心是最坏的顾问。自私非上策。
Ambition and Zeal（雄心与热诚）
Ambition loses many a man. 。
野心使许多人失败
Ambition makes people diligent. 。
雄心使人勤勉
Zeal, when it is a virtue, is a dangerous one. 。
把热诚当作美德是危险的
Zeal without prudence is frenzy. 。
热诚不够谨慎犹若疯狂
Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
热心有余，知识不足。志大才疏犹如脱缰之马。
Zeal too often lacks discretion.
热心有余，审慎不足。
Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools.
热诚只适宜于智者，但热诚多半在愚者身上。
To do one thing well is a worthy ambition.
把一件事做好，这就是一个有价值的雄心。
The higher the mountain, the greater descent.
山愈高，峭壁愈陡。爬得愈高，跌得愈深。
The best is the enemy of the good.
「
最好」往往成为「好」的敌人。（目标太高反而失败。）
Seek mickle, and get something; seek little, and get nothing.
寻找多一些，就得着一些。寻找少一些，就一无所得。
Seek and ye shall find. [Matthew 7:7]
寻找，就寻见。（马太福音7:7）
Better ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.
骑马摔一跤不如骑驴往前走。
He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill.
固步自封。
Nothing is difficult to a man whom ambition fires.
对于雄心万丈的人来说，世上没有难成的事。
Appearance and Heart （外表与内心）
1. A clear conscience is like a coat of mail.
平生不做亏心事，夜半敲门心不惊。
2. Handsome is that handsome does.
心美，貌亦美。
3. A fair face may hide a foul heart. (Fair face, foul heart.)
漂亮的面孔可能藏着一颗龌龊的心。人面兽心。
4. A good conscience is a safe pillow.
良心清白，安枕无忧。
5. A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
作贼心虚。多行不义必自毙，多走夜路必遇鬼。
6. A heavy purse makes a light heart.
钱包饱满，心情轻松。
7. A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
口蜜腹剑。笑里藏刀。佛口蛇心。
8. A light purse makes a heavy heart.
钱包薄薄，心情沉重。
9. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
平生不做亏心事，夜半敲门心不惊。
10. A straight stick is crooked in the water.
直棍水中曲。
11. All are not saints that go to church.
上教堂的人未必个个都是圣人。
12. All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
人不可貌相，海不可斗量。（不可一概而论。）
13. All that glitters is not gold.
发亮的不一定全是金子。金玉其外，败絮其中。虚有其表。
14. Apparel makes the man.
人靠衣裳，马靠鞍装。
15. Appearances are deceptive.
外表是靠不住的。
16. Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
口里含着花蜜的蜜蜂，尾巴却有螫。口蜜腹剑。笑里藏刀。
17. Clothes do not make the man.
衣冠不能造人品。人不可以貌相。
18. Conscience does make cowards of us all. [William Shakespeare]
良心的自责使大家变成了懦夫。（莎士比亚）
19. Faint heart never won fair lady.
懦弱的人永远无法赢得美人的欢心。
20. Far from eye, far from heart.
离眼远，离心远。眼不见，心不念。
21. Fine feathers do not make fine birds.
酒肉宾朋，柴米夫妻。
22. An uncut gem goes not sparkle.
玉不琢，不成器。
Beauty and Ugliness （美与丑）
1. A fair woman without virtue is like palled wine.
美女无德如酒无味。
2. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. [John Keats]
美的事物是永恒的喜悦。（济慈）
3. All cats are grey in the dark.
猫在黑暗中通通都是灰色的。
4. Beauty and honesty seldom agree.
美貌和贞洁难得和睦相处。美女多不贞。
5. Beauty and wisdom rarely go together. [German Proverb]
美丽与才智鲜能兼备。美女多不智。(德国谚语)
6. Beauty fades like a flower.
红颜薄命。
7. Beauty is but skin deep.
美丽只是肤浅的东西。美貌只是外表而已。
8. Beauty is eloquent even when silent.
甚至在静默的时候，美丽也是口若悬河。
9. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
情人眼里出西施。
10. Beauty is the child of love.
情人眼里出西施。
11. Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.
美丽长出漂亮的叶子，却生出苦辣的果实。
12. Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
美丽的姐妹是虚荣，她的女儿是情欲。
13. Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smiles.
美人的眼泪比她的微笑更可爱。
14. Fair face, foul heart.
人面兽心。
15. Fair faces need no paint.
美丽的容貌用不着涂脂抹粉。
16. Fair without and foul (false) within.
金玉其外，败絮其中。绣花枕头。
17. Grace will last, beauty will blast.
神的恩典永不止息; 人的美丽终会凋谢。
18. Handsome is what (that, as) handsome does.
有德才是美。善行重于美貌。
19. If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
情人眼里出西施。
20. Pretty face, poor fate. [Chinese Proverb]
自古红颜多薄命。（中国谚语）
Big and Small （大与小）
1. A big man is usually a little man, who takes advantage of an
opportunity.
所谓大人物，只是懂得利用机会的小人物。
2. A great tree attracts the wind.
树大招风。
3. A little body often harbors a great soul.
伟大的灵魂常寓于短小的驱体。
4. A little help is worth a deal of pity.
济弱扶困胜于同情。
5. A little pot is soon hot.
器小易盈。心胸狭隘。人穷志短。
6. A little spark may kindle a great fire.
星星之火可能酿成大火。
7. A little wariness prevents great weariness.
一点点的谨慎避免莫大的疲劳。
8. A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差之千里。
9. A small leak will sink a great ship.
小小的漏洞可以弄沉一艘大船。牵一发，动全身。
10. Eagles do not catch flies.
大鸡不吃细米。
11. Every great thing is nothing but a lot of little ones.
每一件大事只不过是由无数的小事所缀成的。
12. Every little helps.
一点一滴都有帮助。
13. Every oak has been an acorn.
千里之行，始于足下。由小到大。
14. Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。
15. For want of a nail, the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe, the horse
is lost; for want of a horse, the rider is lost.
千里之堤，溃于蚁穴。
Beginning and Ending （开始与结局）
1. A good beginning makes a good ending.
有好的开始才有好的结局。善始者必善终。
2. A hard beginning makes a good ending.
先苦后甜。
3. All good things must come to an end.
天下无不散之筵席。
4. All things are difficult before they are easy.
万事起头难。
5. All's well that ends well.
结局好，一切都好。吉人自有天相。
6. An ill beginning, an ill ending.
不善始者不善终。
7. At the game's end, we shall see who gains.
比赛结束后，方见得胜者。
8. Bad beginnings have ever bad endings.
恶始必有恶终。不慎始者，常得恶果。
9. Everything has an end.
凡事都会结束
10. Everything must have a beginning.
凡事都有个开头。
11. Good to begin well, better to end well.
有好的开始是不错的，坚持到底更重要。
12. He who begins many things, finishes but few.
样样事只有开始，到头来一事无成。
13. He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
九层之台，起于累土。千里之行，始于足下。
Black and White（黑与白）
A black hen lays a white egg.
乌鸡生白蛋。丑妇生俊儿。
A black plum is as sweet as a white.
乌梅白梅一样甘甜。管它黑猫白猫，抓到老鼠便是好猫。
A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.
江山易改，本性难移。
After black clouds, clear weather.
乌云散去天转晴。
Death is the black camel that kneels before every door.
死亡像一头黑骆驼，在每一家门前下跪。
Every bean has its black.
人人都有缺点。金无赤金，人无完人。
Every white hath its black, and every sweet its sour.
有白必有黑，有甜必有苦。每样事物都有其缺陷。
He that has a white horse and a fair wife, never wants trouble.
拥有一匹白马和漂亮太太的人，永远不会缺少烦恼。
He that touches pitch shall be defiled.
近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
If the master says the crow is white, the servants must not say 'tis
black.
主人若说乌鸦是白，仆人不该说它是黑。
The devil is not so black as he is painted.
魔鬼并不如人所说的那么坏。过甚其词。
The fairer the paper, the fouler the blot.
黑白分明。
The pot calls the kettle black.
五十步笑百步。半斤八两。
There is no wool so white but a dyer can make it black.
人非圣贤，孰能无过。
There's a black sheep in every flock.
任何群体，总有害群之马。树大有枯枝，族大有乞儿。
Books and Library（图书与图书馆）
A book that is shut, is but a block.
书本备而不阅，犹如木片毫无益处。开卷有益。
A good book is a light to the soul.
一本好书是灵魂之光。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today, and forever.
一本好书是最好的朋友，现在如此，永远如此。
A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.
图书馆是治疗精神之病院。
A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.
一本不良的书籍比坏人更坏，因为它不知悔过。
By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.
读书使心智丰富，交谈使心智明亮。
Books and friends should be few and well chosen.
书籍和朋友，贵精不贵多。多不如少，少不如好。
Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. [George William
Curtis]
书籍乃世人累积智慧之不灭明灯。（寇蒂斯）
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
每一个人都是一卷书，只要你懂得如何阅读它。
Good books need no boost.
好书无需夸耀。
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
有些书给我们自由，有些书则使我们自由。
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with
profit.
好书开卷时引人入胜，终卷时使人获益。
You cannot tell a book by its cover.
不能从封面了解书的内容。凡事不可貌相。
Borrowing and Begging（借贷与乞求）
A beggar can never be bankrupt.
乞儿不会破产。
A beggar cannot be a chooser.
讨饭难拣嘴。饥饿难择食。鹿死不择荫。
A beggar pays a benefit with a louse.
以怨报德。
Beggar's bags are bottomless.
穷起来不怕钱多。
Better beg than steal.
求乞总好过偷窃。
Better buy than borrow.
「借」不如「买」的好。
Better die a beggar than live a beggar.
不食嗟来之食。
Borrowed garments never fit well.
借来的外套不合适。
Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Lessing]
借钱无异于求乞。（莱兴）
First you borrow, then you beg. [Ernest Hemingway]
先是向人借贷，后来向人乞求。(海明威)
He learned timely to beg that could not say "Nay".
学会在适当的时候向人请求，就不会被拒绝。
He that borrows binds himself with his neighbor's rope.
向人借钱的人，就是用邻居的绳子把自己捆绑。
He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
有债便有愁。
Idleness is the key of beggary.
懒惰是求乞的主要因素。
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
假如愿望都能实现，乞丐都会发财。
Bravery and Courage （勇敢与勇气）
1. A bold heart is half the battle.
勇敢是胜利的一半。
2. A brave and honest man will speak out.
一个勇敢和诚实的人大胆说话。
3. A brave arm makes a short sword long.
一个勇敢的人，手中的短刃也会变成长剑。
4. A brave man's wounds are seldom on his back.
一个勇敢的人背部很少受到伤害。
5. A bully is always a coward.
欺负弱小的人胆子最小。欺善怕恶。
6. A cock is always bold on its own dunghill.
公鸡在自己的粪堆上称雄。狗是百步王，只在门前狠。
7. A man of courage never wants weapons.
一个有勇气的人绝不会缺少武器。
8. A valiant man's look is more than a coward's sword.
横眉冷对千夫指。
9. Bold men have generous heart.
勇敢的人都有宽宏大量的心肠。
10. Brave actions never want a trumpet.
英勇的行为永远不需吹嘘。
Business and Trade（商务与贸易）
A handful of trade is a handful of gold.
一把贸易，一把黄金。
A hundred tricks are not so good as one well-learned trade.
百艺无如一艺精。
A Jack of all trades is master of none.
万事通，无事精通。周身刀没把利。
A trade is better than service.
买卖胜于服务。
A useful trade is a mine of gold.
有用的贸易犹如金矿。
Best is cheapest.
最好的东西最便宜。
Business before pleasure. (Business first and pleasure after.)
先谈生意，再谈娱乐。
Business is business.
在商言商。公事公办。
Business is the best sport in the world.
商务是世界上最好的户外活动。
Business is the salt of life; business and action strengthen the brain.
商务是生命之盐；商务和行动增强脑力。
Business knowledge cannot be bought. It can only be acquired by long
study.
商务的知识不是用金钱买来的。它是经过长时间学来的。
Capital, labor, and brains -- and all as equally essential in business
as each leg of a three-legged stool.
资本，劳工，和脑力在商务上同样重要，犹如三脚架上的每一只脚。
Cheap things are never very good.
便宜货绝不是好东西。
Courtesy is the lubricant which oils the wheels of business.
礼貌是商务巨轮的润滑油。
Despatch is the soul of business.
办事以迅速为贵。
Cause and Effect（因与果）
Anger is the cause of sin.
愤怒乃犯罪之因。
As you brew, so must you drink.
自食其果。
As you sow, so you reap. (As a man sows, so shall he reap.)
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。一分耕耘，一分收获。
As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.
自作自受。作茧自缚。
Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.
三思而后行。
Every why has a wherefore.
事出必有因。
Look before you leap.
三思而后行。
No cross, no crown.
没有痛苦的十字架，那有荣耀的冠冕。不受磨难不成佛。
No smoke without fire. (There is no smoke without fire.) (Where there's
smoke, there's fire.)
无火那有烟。无风不起浪。事出必有因。
One good turn deserves another.
种善因，得善果。善有善报。
One wrong thought may cause a life-long regret.
一失足成千古恨。
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. [Hosea 8:7] (They that sow the
wind shall reap the whirlwind.)
他们所种的是风，所收的是暴风。（何西亚书8:7）
Take away the cause, and the effect must cease.
没有因，那有果。
Think before you act.
三思而后行。
Chance and Opportunity（机会与时机）
A bad padlock invites picklock.
坏锁惹来撬锁人。（予人可趁之机。）
When fortune smiles, embrace her.
当命运之神向你微笑时，就应拥抱祂。
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
弱者等待机会，强者创造机会。
The man who loses his opportunities loses himself. [George Moore]
失去机会的人就失去了自身。（摩尔）
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. [Robert Herrick]
花开堪折直须折，莫待无花空折枝。(赫里克)
Take time when time comes.
当时机来临时，就应把握它。
Strike while the iron is hot.
打铁趁热。
Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
机会很少会敲两次门。福无重至。
Opportunity makes the thief.
有机可趁，盗贼四起。
Opportunity comes often to the man who is ready for it.
机会总是冲着做好准备的人而来。
Make hay while the sun shines.
趁着阳光普照，把秝草洒干。趁机行事莫蹉跎。
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
错失良机，悔之恨晚。
It chances in an hour, that happens not in seven years.
一小时的偶然机会，七年内再也不会出现。千载难逢。
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
顺风驶帆。（勿失良机。）
He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
能做而不去做，等到想做的时候便没有机会去做。
Character and Manners（品性与态度）
A good character is better than a good fortune.
好的品德胜过于一笔丰厚的财产。
Meat is much, but manner is more.
衣食足而后礼义兴。
Manners make the man.
仪表造人品。一表人才。
Manners make often fortunes.
礼貌常使人致富。
Manners and money make a gentleman.
貌和金钱塑造名流。
It is not good manners to show your learning before ladies.
在女士面前炫耀自己的学问是失礼的。
It is bad manners to stare at one in the face.
瞪着别人的脸来看是没有礼貌的。
Great manners are attractive.
良好的礼貌是诱人的。好礼貌，吸引人。
Good manners like good words, cost nothing, and are worth everything.
良好的礼貌犹如良言，虽是一文不值，却是价值连城。
Good manners are the fine flowers of civilization.
良好的礼貌是文明的漂亮花朵。
Character is what makes one man stand out more prominently than
another.
一个人的德性使他与众不同。。
Full of courtesy, full of craft.
礼多必诈
Evil communications corrupt good manners. [I Corinthians 15:33]
滥交是败坏善行。（哥林多前书15:33）
Character is the first and last word in the success circle. With it you
have riches no money can buy. Without it you are a pauper.
品德是成功的始末。拥有它，就拥有金钱买不到的财富。
缺少了它，就成为贫民，一无所有。
Character in a man creates an impression.
一个人的个性塑造了他的形象。
Come and Go（来与去）
Wrong never comes right.
错误终究是错误，绝不会变成正确。
Who will go far must go slow. [German Proverb]
跑得慢，跑得远。慢慢划船先登岸。（德国谚语）
Who comes uncalled, sits unserved. (He that comes unbidden goes
unthanked.)
不速之客，不受欢迎。
Where the needle goes, the thread follows.
嫁鸡随鸡，嫁狗随狗。
When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
两雄相遇，必有激斗。强中更有强中手，恶人自有恶人磨。
What's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh.
江山易改，本性难移。
Tomorrow never comes.
明日永不再。
Thursday comes, and the week is gone.
当礼拜四到来时，这一周也快结束。
There comes nought out of the sack but what was there.
大势已去。 狗嘴吐不出象牙。
The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down.
世界好像是一把梯子，有人向上爬，有人往下跑。
有人挂冠归故里，有人临夜赶科场。
The weakest goes to the wall.
最软弱的人处处碰壁。弱肉强食。
Repentance comes too late.
后悔莫及。悔之已晚。
Take things as they come.
既来之则安之。
The sluggard's convenient season never comes.
春天不是读书天，夏日炎炎正好眠，
等到秋来冬又至，收拾书包待明年。
Men come and pass; mountains stay forever.
生生死死，青山依旧。
Customs and Habits（习俗与习惯）
With customs we live well, but laws undo us.
风俗使我们的生活美满，法律却破坏我们的美满生活。
Use doth breed a habit.
实践生习惯。
So many countries, so many customs.
各国风俗，各有不同。
Pursuits become habits.
因循会变成习惯。
Old habits die hard.
旧习惯很难戒掉。
Old customs are best.
旧风俗最好。
Men do more things through habit than through reason.
人做事经常由于习惯多过于理性。
Indolence is about the worst habit a man can form.
怠惰大概是一个人所养成的最坏习惯。
Habits are great helps or great hindrances.
习惯带给人类许多的帮助，也带来许多的阻碍。
Good habits are the best friends of man.
良好的习惯是人的良友。
Habit is a friend or foe.
习惯，不是朋友，就是敌人。
Great is the force of habit. [Latin Proverb]
习惯的力量相当大。(拉丁谚语)
Every one has his particular habit. [Latin Proverb]
每个人都有其独特的习惯。（拉丁谚语）
Every one has his own custom.
每个人都有自己的习惯。
Do in Rome as the Romans do.
入乡随俗。
Doctor and Medicine（医生与医药）
When the sun comes in, the doctor goes out.
阳光进来，医生离去。
There is no medicine for fear.
恐惧是没有药物可以治疗的。
There is no medicine for a fool. [French Proverb]
傻瓜是无药可救的。（法国谚语）
The wise will not rely on medicine for keeping their health.
有智慧的人不依赖药物来维持健康。
The windows open more will keep the doctor from the door.
窗户常打开，医生快离开。
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
医生常常比疾病更可怕。
The best doctors are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merryman.
最好的医师就是饮食，安静，和快乐。
Repentance is the heart's medicine. [German Proverb]
懊悔是医治心灵的良药。（德国谚语）
Repentance is a pill unwillingly swallowed.
懊悔是一颗人们不愿意吞服的药丸。
Repentance is a bitter physic.
懊悔是苦药。
Medicines are not meat to live by.
药物不像肉类可以赖以为生。
Laughter is the best medicine.
欢笑是最好的良药。
If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides
it.
医得了病，医不了命。
Good medicine is bitter to the mouth. [Chinese Proverb]
良药苦口利于病。（中国谚语）
Diet cures more than a doctor.
食物治疗胜过于医生的治疗。
Early and Late（早与晚）
1. The early man never borrows from the late man.
早起三朝当一工，免得求人落下封。
2.The early bird catches the worm.
早起的鸟有虫吃。莫道君行早，更有早行人。
3. Sooner begun, sooner done.
速战速决。
4. Soon ripe, soon rotten.
早熟早烂。
5. It is too late to spare when the bottom is bare.
临堤走马收缰晚，船到江心补漏迟。
6. It is too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.
等到马儿跑掉才关门，为时已晚。亡羊补牢，后悔已晚。
7. He who works before dawn will soon be his own master.
黎明前做工的人将做自己的主人。
8. He that will thrive must rise at five.
若要飞黄腾达，五点须起床。
9. He that rises late, must trot all day.
晚起床的人必须整天都要急步疾走。
10. He is never too late to mend.
改过不嫌迟。亡羊补牢，未为晚也。
11. Better late than never.
迟到总比不到好。早播种，早收成。先下米，先吃饭。
12. Early sow, early mow.
早种早收，可以用来形容勤劳工作的人。
(早开始是成功的保证。)
13. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
早上一小时抵过晚上两小时。一日之计在于晨。
14. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and
wise.
睡得早起得早，聪明富裕身体好。
15. Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.
日出而作，日入而息。
16. All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill.
有情人终成眷属。
Education and Experience（教育与经验）
Once bitten, twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕草绳。谈虎色变。心有余悸。
Old birds are not caught with chaff.
老雀不易受骗。
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
没有学问的经验胜过没有经验的学问。
Experience is what a man does with what happens to him.
经验是一个人处理他所遭遇过的经历。
经一事，长一智。
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
经验乃智慧之母。
Experience is the mistress of fools.
经验是愚者之师。经一事，长一智。
Experience is a precious gift, only given a man when his hair is gone.
[Turkish Proverb]
经验是一件珍贵礼品，只献给头发脱落的人。（土耳其谚语）
A painful experience makes us cautious in the future.
痛苦的经验使我们将来更为谨慎。
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
教育是成为绅士的第一步，而谈吐则毕其成。
Experience is a school from which no one can never graduate.
经验是一所人人都能毕业的学校。
Education polishes good natures, and corrects bad ones.
教育修饰良好的本性，矫正不良的本性。
Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
吃亏学乖代价高，笨汉非此学不好。
Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.
天生扭曲者，无法因教育变直。
An investment in education pays the best dividends.
投资教育将来一定有好处。
Experience is the best teacher.
经验乃最佳的良师。经一事，长一智。
Example and Precept（身教与言教）
1. Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows.
上行下效。
2. We live by laws, not by examples.
我们是以法律为依归，不是以个人的典范为依归。
3. The friar preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve.
托钵僧劝人勿偷盗，袖子里却藏着一只鹅。监守自盗。（口是心非，言行相悖。）
4. Teach others by thy examples.
教人须以身作则。
5. Precepts may lead and examples draw.
教训能指引人；实践能推动人。
6. Precept begins, example accomplishes.
以教训来开始，以实践来完成。
7. Practice what you preach. (Practice what one preaches.)
躬行己说。言出必行。
8. One sheep follows another.
羊群彼此仿效。
9.No marvel if the imps follow when the devil goes before.
魔鬼带头，难怪小鬼纷纷跟随。
10. It is well to profit by the folly of others.
前车可鉴。
11. If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.
一羊跳过水沟，众羊相继跟随。
12. Do unto others as you would they should do unto you. [Luke 6:31]
你们愿意人怎样待你们，你们也要怎样待人。（路加福音6:31）
13. He preaches well that lives well.
言行一致。
14. Example is better than precept.
身教重于言教。
15. Do as I say, not as I do.
照着我的话去做，不要跟着我去做。（本身言行不符，却要他人遵循其言而行
Fame and Honor（声誉与荣誉）
1. Who that in youth, no virtue uses, in age all honor him refuses.
行善不趁少年时，休想晚年享荣华。
2. Where there is no honor there is no grief.
没有荣誉，就没有苦恼。
3. There is honor among thieves.
盗亦有道。
4. There are many ways to fame.
行行出状元。
5. Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime.
无功得来的声望却常因无过而失去。
6. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
在一小时的生命里充满着荣耀胜过一辈子过着寂寂无名的生活。
7. Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
声名狼籍常被误认为鼎鼎大名。
8. Honors change manners. [Latin Proverb]
声誉改变人的态度。（拉丁谚语）
9. Honor without profit is a ring on the finger.
没有好处的荣誉犹如指头上的戒指。
10. Honor shows the man.
荣誉表现人品。
11. He who leaves the fame of good works after him does not die.
生前留下好名声的人，死后其精神永远不死。
12. Honor is the reward of virtue. [Latin Proverb]
有美德者必享美誉。（拉丁谚语）
13. Honor can only be purchased by worth actions.
荣誉只能用有价值的作为才可收购。
14. Honor buys no beef in the market.
荣誉买不到市场上的牛肉。
15. Honor brings responsibility. [Latin Proverb]
荣誉带来责任。（拉丁谚语）
Fire and Water（火与水）
1.You can lead a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.
牛不喝水按不住牛头低。
2. You cannot get water (blood) out of a stone.
石头榨不出水来。老糠榨不出油来。（比喻硬心肠的人不会帮助别人。）
3. When the heart is a fire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth.
心里有什么，嘴里总要泄露出来。
4. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. (We never
miss the water till the water runs dry.)
井枯方知水重要。身在福中不知福。
5. Water is the king of food. [African Proverb]
水是食物之王。（非洲谚语）
6. Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.
(水在沙漠中是人的恩物，快淹死的人却咒诅它。)
需要随环境而异。
7. Water afar off quencheth not fire.
远水救不了近火。
8. Violent fires soon burn out.
野火烧不尽，春风吹又生。
9. Under water, famine, under snow, bread.
洪水泛滥有饥荒，雪花飘落有粮食。
10. Too much water drowned the miller.
过犹不及。
11. Three removes are as bad as a fire. 。
上屋搬下屋，都要抛掉一箩谷。一搬三穷
12. Those who drink but water will have no liquor to buy.
只喝白开水的人用不着买酒。
13. There is no smoke without fire.
无火那有烟。无风不起浪。事出必有因。
14. The straws floating upon the waters show how the stream runs.
草动知风向。观微知着。
15. The smoke of a man's own country is better than the fire of
another's.
敝帚自珍。
16. Pour water into a sieve.
竹篮打水一场空。
17. A drop in the bucket!
（一桶水里的一滴）杯水车薪
Fortune and Misfortune（幸与不幸）
1. Yield not to misfortunes. [Latin Proverb]
不要向恶运低头。（拉丁谚语）
2. The worse luck now, the better another time.
这回倒霉，下回走运。十年风水轮流转。
3. The footsteps of fortune are slippery.
幸福的脚步是滑溜溜的。
4. Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us.
最不幸的就是从来没有发生在我们身上的不幸事故。
5. One misfortune rides upon another's back. (One misfortune comes on
the neck of another.)
祸不单行。
6. No man is content with his lot.
没有人会满足自己的命运。
7. Misfortunes tell us where fortune is.
不幸才知幸福好。忆苦思甜。
8. Misfortunes never come singly. (Misfortunes seldom come singly.)
祸不单行。
9. Misfortunes hasten age.
不幸催人老。
10.Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night.
甚至在黑夜里，不幸也不会迷路。
11. Misfortunes come of themselves.
不幸来自不幸。
12. Misfortunes are helpful and instructive.
不幸是有益的。
13. Misfortune tastes the sincerity of friends.
只有在不幸时才能体验到朋友的真诚。患难见真情。
14. Misfortune is a good teacher.
不幸是良师。
15. Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot. (Misfortune
comes on wings and departs on foot)
不幸，来得快，去得慢。不幸，来如风雨，去似微尘。
Forgive and Forget （宽恕与忘记）
1. A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
容易作出承诺的人，也很容易忘掉他的承诺。
2. By forgetness of injuries we show ourselves superior to them.
忘记创伤就不会被创伤所伤害。
3. Do not forget little kindness and do not remember small faults.
[Chinese Proverb]
小善不忘，小错不念。（中国谚语）
4. Forgive all but thyself. [French Proverb]
宽恕所有的人，但别轻易宽恕自己。将恕己之心恕人。（阿拉伯谚语）
5. Forgive and forget injuries, but never forget benefits.
对于别人的加害，宽恕他，忘了一切；
受了别人的恩惠，却不应忘记。
6. Forgive and forget.
不念旧恶。既往不咎。
7. Forgiveness from the heart is better than a box of gold. [Moorish
Proverb]
一颗宽仁之心重于一箱黄金。（摩尔谚语）
8. Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered.
当罪被赦免时，宽恕是完美的。
9. He that does you an ill turn will never forgive you.
以怨报德的人，绝不会宽恕别人。
10. He that forgives gains the victory. [African Proverb]
宽恕敌人的人，才获得胜利。（非洲谚语）
11. He who forgives others, God forgives him.
宽恕别人者，神必宽恕他。
12. To err is human, to forgive divine.
Freedom and Liberty（自由与自由权）
1. Who receives a gift, sells his liberty.
接受礼物者，出卖自由。
2. Who loses his liberty loses all.
失去自由，就失去一切。
3. Where liberty is, there is my country.
[Latin Proverb]
那里有自由，那里就是我的国家。(拉丁谚语)
4. Too much liberty spoils all.
太多的自由破坏一切。
5. To receive a favor is to sell your liberty.
[Latin Proverb]
接受好处就等于出卖自由。(拉丁谚语)
6. No man is free who cannot command himself.
不能自我控制的人不算自由。
7. My country is dear but liberty is dearer.
[Latin Proverb]
国家虽珍贵，自由更可贵。（拉丁谚语）
8. Liberty is not licence.
自由并非执照。
9. Liberty is more worth than gold.
自由抵万金。
Friend and Enemy （朋友与敌人）
1. A father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is
both.
父亲是宝藏，兄弟是安逸，但朋友两者皆是。
2. A flattering friend is your worst enemy. [Danish Proverb]
谄媚之友是你最可怕的敌人。(丹麦谚语)
3. A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.
与其袋中有钱，不如朝中有人。
4. A friend in court makes the process short.
朝上有人好做官。近官得力，近厨得食。
5. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难之友才是真友。
6. A friend is a second self.
朋友是第二个自己。
7. A friend is best found in adversity.
灾难见真友。风雨故人来。
8. A friend is proved in distress.
灾难见真友。
9. A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the
same.
朋友就是一位最能了解你，同样关爱你的人。
10. A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.
朋友应该容忍朋友的缺点。
11. A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. (A friend to all is a
friend to none.)
人尽可友的人，不是真正朋友。滥交者无友。
12. A hedge between keeps friendship green.
君子之交淡如水。
13. A life without a friend is a life without a sun. [French Proverb]
人
生无友犹如生活中无太阳。（法国谚语）
Gain and Loss （得与失）
1. A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven.
一小时所损失的远超过七小时所获得的。易失难得。
2. A tale never loses in the telling.
加盐加醋。
3. All gains are made at some sacrifice.
一切收获都是来自牺牲。
4. All is not lost that's in peril.
危险不等于完蛋。
5. Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.
勿逐其影而忘其形。（不要舍本逐末。）
6. Covet all and lose all.
贪婪愈多，失去也愈多。
7. Do not seek dishonest gains, dishonest gains are losses.
不义之财不可贪；贪来之财也走失。
8. Future gains are uncertain.
未来的收获是不易确定的。
9. Gain at the expense of reputation should be called loss. [Publius
Syrus]
牺牲名誉而获利，应该说是损失。（塞鲁士）
10. Gain savors sweetly from anything.
收获的滋味比任何东西来得甜美。
11. Grasp all, lose all.
样样都抓，等于不抓。
12. Great gain makes work easy.
重大收获使工作顺利。
13. Great pain and little gain will make a man soon weary.
辛劳多，收获少，很快使人疲倦不堪。
14. He who does not gain loses.
逆水行舟，不进则退。
15. If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.
人善有人欺，马善有人骑。
16. Pour water into a sieve.
竹篮打水一场空。
17. Failure teaches success.
失败乃成功之母。
18. A dime a dozen.
（一毛钱可以买一打）俯拾即是。
Genius and Talent（天才与天赋）
1. The son of a talented father is bound to be talented. [Chinese
Proverb]
将门有将。（中国谚语）
2. The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its
proverbs. [Francis Bacon]
一个国家的天赋，机智和精神从它的谚语中表露无遗。(培根)
3. Talent develops itself in solitude; character in the stream of life.
孤独可以培养一个人的才能；人生的波涛足以培养一个人的性格。
4. Perseverance is sometimes more effective than genius.
坚忍有时比天赋更有效。
5. It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
一个作家所俱备的不仅仅是才华而巳。
6. Initiative results more from sustained effort than from genius.
进取心来自不断的努力多于来自天赋。
7. Great talents mature late.
大器晚成。
8. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine perspiration.
天才是一分的灵感和九十九分的汗水。
9. Genius is boiling desire.
天才乃欲望之沸腾。
10. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
天赋乃辛劳工作的无限能力。
11. Genius is an aptitude for work.
天赋就是俱备工作的才能。
Give and Take （施与受）
1. Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
欲加之罪，何患无辞。
2. Give a lie twenty-four hours' start and you can never overtake it.
要是「谎言」先跑二十四小时，谁也追不上它。一人传虚，百人传实。
3. Give a thief enough rope and he will hang himself.
欲擒先纵。
4. Give a thing and take a thing, to wear the devil's gold ring.
献出又收回，就是戴上魔鬼的金戒指。
5. Give and spend, and God will send.
千金散尽还复来。
6. Give as good as one gets (takes).
针锋相对。
7. Give credit where credit is due.
有功则偿。
8. Give him an inch and he will take an ell.
得陇望蜀。得寸进尺。
9. Give knaves an inch and they will take a yard.
得寸进尺。
10. Give the devil his due.
对魔鬼也要公平。
11. Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to
you.
把你最好的献给世人，世人就会把最好的回报给你。
12. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
给我们工具，我们就会把工作做好。
没家没伙，作什么豆腐。
13. Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man's store.
厚德载福。积善多福。
Gold and Gems（黄金与珠宝）
1.Unpolished pearls never shine.
未磨光的珠宝绝不会发亮。
2. The golden age was never the present age.
( 现代绝非黄金时代。) 人在福中不知福。
3. The diamonds of other countries are always the most beautiful.
[Russian Proverb]
外国的钻石总是最漂亮。（俄国谚语）
4. The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead.
大公无私。
5. No lock will hold against the power of gold.
财可通神。
6. Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
勿竭泽而渔。勿杀鸡取卵。勿舍本逐末。
7. He that has gold may buy land.
有金斯有土。
8. Hares are caught with hounds, fools with praise, and women with
gold. [German Proverb]
野免为猎犬所捕，傻瓜为赞美所惑，女人为黄金所迷。（德国谚语）
9. Gold will not buy everything.
黄金不能购买任何东西。
10. Gold has more worshippers than God.
黄金比上帝有更多崇拜者。拜金的人比拜神的人还要多。
11. Gold is the dust that blinds all eyes.
黄金使人眩目。
12. Gold is tried in the fire.
真金不怕火炼。真金不怕红炉火。
God and Devil（上帝与魔鬼）
1. You cannot serve God and Mammon. [Matthew 6:24]
你们不能又事奉神，又事奉玛门。（马太福音6:24）
2. Where God will help, nothing does harm.
上帝若愿意帮忙，无人会受到伤亡。
3. When the devil prays, he has a booty in his eye.
魔鬼祷告时，眼睛看着他的胜利品。
4. When rogues go in procession, the devil holds the cross.
流氓列队前进时，魔鬼高举十字架。
道高一尺，魔高一丈。
5. When God has his church, the devil will have his chapel.
上有政策，下有对策。
6. When fools make mistakes, they lay blame on Providence.
愚人犯错，归咎上帝。
7. We must not lie down and cry "God help us."
不可躺下来，只求上帝帮助。望天打卦。
8. Those whom the gods love die young.
神所爱的人早逝。兰摧玉折。
9. The voice of the people is the voice of God. [Latin Proverb]
民之所欲，天必从之。（拉丁谚语）
10. The nearer the church, the farther from God.
离教堂愈近，离上帝愈远。
11. The mills of God grind slowly.
上帝的磨坊慢慢磨。天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
12. The grace of God is enough.
神的恩典够我用。
13. The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth.
上帝总是把坚果送给牙齿掉光的人。
14. When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; when the devil
was well, the devil a monk was he.
平时不烧香，急来抱佛脚。
Happiness and Sorrow（快乐与忧伤）
When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.
当忧伤睡觉时，不要吵醒它。
Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter.
积善之家必有余庆。厚德载福。
Virtue alone is happiness.
为善至乐。
Two in distress make trouble less.
烦恼有伴不觉苦。同舟共济。同病相怜。
True happiness consists in making happy. [Hindi Proverb]
真正的快乐在于使人快乐。（北印度谚语）
There's no cure for sorrow but to put it underfoot.
忧伤是无法治疗的，唯有把它踩在脚下。
The man without thought for the future will surely have trouble close
at hand. [Chinese Proverb]
人无远虑，必有近忧。（中国谚语）
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
忧伤的回忆使眼前的喜悦甜美。
Sorrow is at parting if at meeting there be laughter.
相见欢笑离别忧。
Sorrow and an evil life makes soon an old wife.
忧愁和邪恶的生活很快使人变成老太婆。
Sin and sorrow are inseparable.
罪恶与忧伤难以分离。
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
悲喜交集。祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏。
Rust destroys iron, and grief the heart. [Russian Proverb]
生锈侵蚀铁皿，忧愁伤害心灵。（俄国谚语）
Remembrance often may start a tear.
回忆常带来泪水。
High and Low（高与低）
1.Where the hedge is lowest, men may soonest over. (Where the hedge is
lowest men leap over.)
避难就易。避重就轻。
2. The lower millstone grinds as well as the upper.
低磨高磨，一样可以磨。
3. The highest branch is not the safest roost.
高枝非良栖。
4. The highest tree has the greatest fall.
树长得愈高，倒得愈严重。
5. The higher you climb, the harder you fall.
爬得愈高，跌得愈惨。
6. The higher the mountain, the greater descent.
山愈高，峭壁愈陡。爬得愈高，跌得愈深。
7. The higher the hill, the lower the grass.
山愈高，草愈低。
8. The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
猿猴攀得愈高，它的尾巴愈显露。
小人职位愈高，其弱点愈容易曝露。
9. The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
大丈夫能屈能伸。
10. Lowly sit, richly warm.
坐得低，较暖和。
11. Loftiest trees most dread the thunder.
最高的树最易招惹雷电。
12. High cedars fall when low shrubs remain.
高大的柏树被风吹倒时，矮灌木却依然屹立不摇。
13. Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye.
伐木时不要砍得太高，否则木屑会跑入你的眼睛。（勿好高骛远，应实事求事。）
14. High places have their precipices.
凡是高的地方必有断崖。
Hope and Optimism（盼望与乐观）
1. Who live by hope will die by hunger.
因希望而活的人，却因渴望而死。
2. While there is life there is hope.
有生命就有希望。留得青出在，不怕没柴烧。
3. When things are at the worst they begin to mend.
否极泰来。苦尽甘来。
4. When one door shuts, another opens.
当一道门关闭时，另一道门会为你而开。天无绝人之路。
5. Trust your hopes and not your fears.
要信赖你的盼望，不要信赖你的恐惧。
6. The longest night will have an end.
最漫长的黑夜总会结束。否极泰来。
7. The longest day has an end.
最长的一天总会结束。好景不常。天下无不散之筵席。
8.The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
黎明前的时刻是最黑暗的。曙光在望。
9.The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers.
蜜蜂是从最苦的花朵中吸取花蜜。
10. Prospect is often better than possession.
盼望往往胜于拥有。
11.Never cross your bridges till you come to them.
船到桥头自然直。
12.Look on the bright side.
往好处着想。要看人生的光明面。
13. A happy face means a glad heart.
人逢喜事，精神爽。
14. Blessings are ever waiting on virtuous acts.
吉人自有天相。
Hunger and Anger（饥饿与愤怒）
1. Wrath killeth the foolish man. [Job 5:2]
愤怒害死愚妄人。（乔布记5:2）
2. When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears.
怒气蒙心时，真理便消失。
3. When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.
人在生气时，他的理智，就会失控。
4. Short folk are soon angry.
小人易怒。
5.They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
不劳动，要挨饿。
6. Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.
饥不择食。
7. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]
不可含怒到日落。（以弗所书4:26）
8. Kind words soften anger.
仁慈的话语使怒气缓和。
9. Hungry dogs would eat dirty puddings.
饥者易为食。
10. Hungry bellies have no ears.
饥不择食。
11. Hunger teaches many things. [Latin Proverb]
饥饿教会我们许多东西。（拉丁谚语）
12. Hunger obeys no laws.
三天不吃饭，什么事都敢干。
Hunger makes raw beans taste sugar.
饥饿时糟糠甜如蜜。
Hunger knows no delicacy.
饥不择食。
Hunger is the best sauce. [French Proverb]
饥饿乃最佳之调味品。饥者易为食。（法国谚语）
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
饥不择食。
One sheep follows another.
羊群彼此仿效。
No marvel if the imps follow when the devil goes before.
魔鬼带头，难怪小鬼纷纷跟随。
It is well to profit by the folly of others.
前车可鉴。
If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.
一羊跳过水沟，众羊相继跟随。
Do unto others as you would they should do unto you. [Luke 6:31]
你们愿意人怎样待你们，你们也要怎样待人。（路加福音6:31)
He preaches well that lives well.
言行一致。
Example is better than precept.
身教重于言教。
Do as I say, not as I do.
照着我的话去做，不要跟着我去做。（本身言行不符，却要他人遵循其言而行。）
Husband and Wife （丈夫与妻子）
1. A bad wife takes advice from every one but her own husband.
不好的妻子接纳每个人的意见，却不接纳他丈夫的意见。
2. A good husband makes a good wife.
好夫有好妻。夫妻相好合。琴瑟与笙簧。
3. A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind. [French
Proverb]
好丈夫应该耳聋，好妻子应该眼瞎。（法国谚语）
4. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
贤妻与健康乃男人之最大的财富。
5. A good wife is a good portion.
贤妻便是好嫁妆。
6. A good wife makes a good husband.
好妻有好夫。夫妻相好合。琴瑟与笙簧。
7. A man without a wife is but half a man.
人无贤妻只能算是半个人。
8. A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife.
一个男人最好和最坏的财富就是他的妻子。
9. A poor man who takes a rich wife, has a ruler, not a wife. [Greek
Proverb]
穷人娶了富妻等于娶了一位统治者而不是一个妻子。
（希腊谚语）
10. An evil wife converts a man's house into a hell on earth.
邪恶的妻子使家庭变成人间地狱。
Kindness and Cruelty（仁慈与残酷）
Write injuries in dust, kindness in marble.
把伤害写在灰尘中，把仁慈写在大理石上。
There is kindness to be found everywhere.
仁慈到处可见。
The poor man is often rich in kindness.
穷人经常富于仁慈。
Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency.
有时候宽厚是残酷，残酷也是宽厚。
One kindness is the price of another.
一方的仁慈是另一方的代价。
Kindness is often better than force.
仁慈常胜过武力。
Kindness is noblest weapon to conquer with.
仁爱乃征服人类之最高贵兵器。
Kindness is nobler than revenge.
仁慈比报复更高贵。
Kindness comes of will.
仁慈来自意志。
Kind words soften anger.
仁慈的话语使怒气缓和。
Kind hearts are the garden; kind thoughts are the roots; kind words are
the flowers; kind deeds are the fruits.
仁慈的心是花园；仁慈的思想是根茎；
仁慈的话语是花朵；仁慈的行为是果实。
Kind hearts are more than coronets. [A. L. Tennyson]
仁慈的心胜于冠冕。（但尼生）
Kind words heal wounded hearts.
仁慈的话语可以治疗创伤的心灵。
Injury should be recompensed with kindness.
伤害应以仁慈来弥补。
Kind words do not wear the tongue.
仁慈的话语不会磨损舌头。
Cruelty is the first attribute of the devil.
残酷是魔鬼的第一属性。
Labor and Idleness（劳动与怠惰）
Work while you work, and play while you play; that is the way to be
happy and gay.
工作时工作，游戏时游戏；这才是幸福之道。
Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit. [German Proverb]
工作虽苦，其果甜蜜。（德国谚语）
Work for all you're worth and you'll be worth more.
尽全力工作，你会更有价值。
When you play, play hard. When you work, don't play at all.
游玩时，尽情游玩；工作时，竭力工作。
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
不管做怎么事，尽全力去做。
Whatever you do, do it well.
不管做怎么事，都要把它做好。
What is worth doing is worth doing well.
凡是值得做的事情，就值得好好去做。
We should push our work; the work should not push us.
是我们推动工作，不是工作推动我们。
The laborer is worthy of his hire. [Luke 10:7]
工人得工价是应当的。（路加福音10:7）
The surest way to be happy is to be busy.
最确切的幸福之道，就是使自己忙碌。
The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
魔鬼找事给游手好闲的人去做。小人闲着为不善。
Want is the mother of industry.
需要为勤勉之母。穷则变，变则通。
Of idleness comes no goodness.
懒惰不会带来好处。
Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.
恳勤可以清偿债务，失望只会徒增债务。
It is only the idle that are wretched.
唯有懒惰的人才是卑鄙的人。
Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.
手脚勤快可以餬口。
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
勤俭为富贵之本。
Industry is the parent of success.
勤勉为成功之本。
Lady and Gentleman （淑女与绅士）
1. A gentleman ought to travel abroad, but dwell at home.
绅士应该到海外旅行，但要在本国定居。
2. A gentleman will do like a gentleman.
绅士的言行举止要表现出像一位绅士。
3. A gentleman without an estate is like a pudding without suet.
绅士没有产业犹如布丁缺少了板油。
4. A thief passes for a gentleman when thieving has made him rich.
成则为王，败则为寇。
5. Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
懦弱的人永远得不到美人的欢心。
6. He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions.
有绅士风度的人才是绅士。
7. It is not good manners to show your learning before ladies.
在女士面前炫耀自己的学问是失礼的。
8. It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
彩色缤纷的衣服不能塑造绅士。
9. It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
塑造一位绅士需要花上三代时光。
10. Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French.
只要会说法语，人人可做绅士。
11. Jack would be a gentleman if he had money.
只要有钱，人人可做绅士。
12. Manners and money make a gentleman.
礼貌和金钱塑造名流。
13. The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman.
国王能够塑造武士，却不能塑造绅士。
14. You a lady, I a lady, who will milk the cow?
你是淑女，我是淑女，谁来挤牛奶。
Law and Justice （法律与正义）
1. A good lawyer does not go to law himself. [Italian Proverb]
好的律师本人不会诉诸法律。（意大利谚语）
2. A good lawyer must be a great liar.
好的律师一定是伟大的说谎者。
3. Be just before you are generous.
先小人后君子。
4. Be just to all, but trust not all.
对所有的人要公正，但不要信赖所有的人。
5. Every law has a loophole.
每一项法律都有漏洞。一法立，一弊生。
6. Few lawyers die well, few physicians live well.
律师少有善终，医生少有悠闲。
7. Go before God with justice, before the judge with money.
带着公义见上帝；带着金钱见法官。
8. Go to law for a sheep and lose your cow.
为了一只羊诉诸法律，就会输掉一只牛。
9. Good laws often proceed from bad manners.
好的法律常常是由不良的礼貌而生。
10. Good lawyer, bad neighbor. [French Proverb]
好的律师是坏的邻居。（法国谚语）
11. Hunger obeys no laws.
三天不吃饭，什么事都敢干。
12. Ignorance does not avert the law.
无知的人不懂得躲避法律。
13. In justice is all virtue found in sum.
简言之，所有美德都是在正义中寻获。
14. Just notions will grow into good actions.
公正的信念孕育出良好的作为。
15. Justice has long arms.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
16. Justice is a noble quality.
正义是高贵的素养。
17. Justice is higher than expediency.
正义优于权宜。
Life and Death （生与死）
1. A cat has nine lives.
猫有九命。
2. A dead bee makes no honey.
死的蜜蜂不会酿蜜。
3. A dead mouse feels no cold.
死的老鼠不觉得寒冷。
4. A fair death honors the whole life. [Jonathan Swift]
死得正直，一生光荣。（斯威夫特）
5. A live ass is better than a dead lion.
A living ass is better than a dead doctor.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
(活驴胜过死狮。) 好死不如赖活
6. A long life has long miseries.
漫长的人生多苦难。
7. A man can die but once. (A man can only die once.) [Hebrews 9:27]
人人都有一死。（希伯来书9:27）
8. All men are mortal.
人人都有一死。
9. An evil life is a kind of death. [Ovid]
邪恶的生活，便是死亡的一种。（奥维德）
10. As a man lives, so shall he die.
有生必有死。
11. Better die a beggar than live a beggar.
不食嗟来之食。
11. Bread is the staff of life.
面包是生命的依靠。民以食为先。
12. Call no man happy till he is dead.
人未死不能说他快乐。盖棺论定。
Literature and Writing（文学与写作）
The thought has good legs, and the quill a good tongue.
思想能跑，翎笔能言。
The pen is the tongue of the hand.
笔杆犹如手中之舌。
The pen is mightier than the sword. 。
笔比剑更厉害。笔杆强过枪杆。文胜于武
The first principle and source of all good writing is to think justly.
[Horace]
一切好的作品之首要原则就是正确的思考。（霍勒斯）
One who has literary tastes is rarely expert in military exercises.
有文学气质的人，在军事演习上也是一位难能可贵的专家。
Make authorship your avocation, not your vocation.
把写作当作你的副业，不要把它当作正业。
Literature is a good staff but a bad crutch.
文学是好的支柱，却是坏的拐杖。
Literature is a good crutch, but a very bad walking stick.
文学是好的拐杖，却是坏的手杖。
Life without literature is death. [Latin Proverb]
没有文学的人生虽生犹死。（拉丁谚语）
Brevity is in writing what charity is to all other virtues.
简洁之于写作犹如宽恕之于所有其它美德。
Man and Woman （男与女）
1. A bad woman is worse than a bad man.
坏女人比坏男人更坏。
2. A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.
男人觉得自己多老，就有多老；
女人看起来多老，就有多老。
男人年纪凭感觉，女人年纪凭外貌。
3. A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.
一个穷光棍的男人胜过一个腰缠百万的女人。
4. A woman conceals what she knows not.
女人隐藏她所不知道的。（意指女人会说出所知道的一切。）
5. A woman has an eye more than a man.
女人比男人多长一只眼睛。
6. A woman is flax, a man is fire, the devil comes and blows the
bellows.
女人是风，男人是火，魔鬼来煽风点火。
7. A woman is the weaker vessel.
女人是弱者。
8. A woman's work is never done.
女人的家务事，永无休止。
9. A woman's mind and winter wind change oft.
女人的心和冬天的风说变就变。水性杨花。
10. Choose neither a woman nor linen by candle-light.
选女人如选布，绝不可只凭烛光。
11. Deeds are males, and words are females.
「做」是男人的事，「说」是女人的事。
12. Gaming, women and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
赌博，女人和酒，发作时使男人憔悴。
13. Man is the head, but woman turns it.
男人虽有权威，却受到女人支配。
14. Men get wealth and women keep it.
男人谋财，女人守财。
Peace and War （和平与战争）
1. A bad peace is even worse than war. [Whitman]
不好的和平甚至比战争更坏。（惠特曼）
2. A deceitful peace is more hurtful than an open war.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
3. A just war is better than an unjust peace.
公平的战争胜过不公平的和平。
4. Better an egg in peace than an ox in war.
和平时一只蛋胜过战争时一只牛。
5. By wisdom peace, by peace plenty.
智能生和平，和平生富裕。
6. He that makes a good war, makes a good peace.
奋勇作战的人才能获得真正的和平。
7. He that will not have peace, God gives him war.
不爱和平的人，上帝赐他们战争。
8. If you wish for peace, be prepared for war. (If you want peace, you
must prepare for war.)
欲求和平，必须准备战争。
9. In peace prepare for war.
和平时不忘备战。
10. It is safest making peace with sword in hand.
手握兵器谈和平最安全。
Question and Answer （问与答）
1. A soft answer turneth away wrath. [Proverbs 15:1]
回答柔和，使怒消退。（箴言15:1）
2. Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
发出愚蠢的问题，就会得到愚蠢的答案。
3. Ask and it shall be given you. [Matthew 7:7]
你们祈求，就给你们。（马太福音7:7）
4. Ask no questions and hear no lies. (Ask no questions and be told no
lies.)
不发问，就听不见谎言。是非终日有，不听自然无。
5. Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler.
避开好问者，因他也是是非人。
6. Better to ask the way than go astray.
路在嘴边，一问便知。不问不知，迷路无知。
7. He that asks faintly begs a denial.
软弱的请求换来拒绝的回复。
8. He that cannot ask, cannot live.
一事不问之人，则无法生存。
9. He that nothing questions, nothing learns. (He that nothing
questioneth nothing learneth.)
什么事都不问的人，什么事都学不会。
10. He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
畏问者，耻于学。
11. It is not every question that deserves an answer.
并非每个问题都有答案。
12. Like question, like answer.
有怎样的问题，就有怎样的回答。
13. Never answer a question until it is asked.
不需要回答的时候，不要回答。
14. No answer is also an answer.
不回答也是回答。
15. The shortest answer is doing.
最简短的回答就是实际去做。
16. There are two sides to every question . [Latin Proverb]
每个问题都有两面。（拉丁谚语）
Rich and Poor （富与贫）
1. A beggar's purse is always empty.
乞丐存不住钱。
2. A hut is a palace to a poor man.
穷人的茅舍就是他的宫殿。
3. A man's wealth is his enemy.
一个人的财富正是他的敌人。
4. A poor man's tale cannot be heard.
人微言轻。
5. A rich man's joke is always funny.
富人的笑话总是好笑。
6. All ask if a man be rich, none if he be good. [Latin Proverb]
仁义尽从贫处断，世情偏看有钱家。人情冷暖，世态炎凉。
（拉丁谚语）
7. An avaricious man is always needy.
贪婪的人总是贫困的。
8. An empty sack cannot stand upright.
空袋子立不起来。衣食足而后知荣辱。
9. Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
害羞是贫穷的敌人。
10. Better be envied than pitied.
宁让人羡慕，也不让人同情。
11. Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery.
宁愿褴褛上天堂，也不愿衣锦下地狱。
不戚戚于贫贱，不汲汲于富贵。
12. Better poverty without care, than richness with.
无忧无虑的贫穷生活胜过于富裕却忧愁的生活。
13. Children are poor men's riches.
孩子是穷人的财富。
14. Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.
住在茅舍比住在皇宫来得快乐。
Similarity and Difference （相同与相异）
1. All roads lead to Rome.
条条大路通罗马。异途同归。
2. Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚。气味相投。
3. Every one to his taste.
人各有所好。萝卜青菜，各有所爱。仁者见仁，智者见智。
4. Every shoe fits not every foot.
顺得哥情失嫂意。
5. Great minds think alike.
英雄所见略同。
6. He that all men will please shall never find ease.
要讨好每一个人的人永远不得安宁。
7. If one will not, another will.
人弃我取，人取我与。
8. It takes all sorts to make a world.
大千世界。
9. Like author, like book.
有怎样的作家，就有怎样的作品。书如其人。
10. Like blood, like good, and like age make the happiest marriage.
相同的血统，相同的期望，和相同的年岁使婚姻美满。
11. Like breeds (begets) like.
龙生龙，凤生凤。
12. Like cures like.
心病还需心药医。以毒攻毒。
13. Like draws to like.
同明相照。同类相求。志趣相投。沆瀣一气。
14. Like father, like son.
有其父，必有其子。
15. Like for like.
恩报恩，仇报仇。
Success and Failure （成与败）
1. Complete cooperation is vital to success.
彻底的合作是成功的重要条件。
2. Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是迈向成功之路的第一步。
3. Deserve success and you shall command it.
得着成功，才可支配成功。
4. Distress offers opportunities for the obtaining of success.
逆境给予获得成功的机会。
5. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.
要是人愿意学习的话，每次的失败都会教导他一些。
6. Failure is one thing that can be achieved without effort.
失败是一件不用努力即可获得的东西。
7. Failure is the foundation of success.
失败是成功的基础。
8. Failure is the mother of success. (Failure teaches success.) 。
失败乃成功之母
9. Failures are stepping stones to success for strong hearts determined
to persevere.
失败乃成功之踏脚石，因为意志坚强的人有坚忍的毅力。
10. He loses indeed that loses last.
最后失败者才是真正的失败。
11. Man learns little from success, but much from failure. [Arabic
Proverb] 人从
成功中学到者少，从失败中学到者则多。（阿拉伯谚语）
12. Many men have failed through lack of decision.
许多人因缺乏果断而失败。
13. Mere talking tends only to failure.
空谈只会导致失败。
Teaching and Learning （教与学）
1. A good teacher is the intellectual father of his pupils.
良师乃学生的智慧之父。
2. A little learning is a dangerous thing. [Alexander Pope]
一知半解，危险之至。（波普）
3. A man may learn wit every day.
每个人每天都要学习机智。
4. A man should learn to sail in all winds. [Italian Proverb]
一个人应在各种风向下学习航行。（意大利谚语）
5. An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.
一分辨别力抵过十分学问。
6. Better learn by your neighbor's skaith than by your own.
从别人的教训中学习胜过从自己的教训中学习。
7. Better untaught than ill taught. 书。
接受不良的教育不如不接受教育。尽信书不如无
8. By learning one learns how to learn.
透过学习，人可以学会如何学习。
9. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
别班门弄斧。
10. He teaches ill, who teaches all.
样样都教样样糟。
11. He that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
无师自通的人把傻瓜当作师傅。
12. He who teaches, learns.
教学相长。
13. In doing we learn.
边做边学。经一事，长一智。
14. It is right to be taught even by an enemy. [Latin Proverb]
甚至敌人的教训也是好的。（拉丁谚语）
Today and Tomorrow （今日与明日）
1. Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
今日一只蛋胜过明日一只鸡。
明日虽有一银圆，不若今日一文钱。
2. Don't long for tomorrow. If you do, you will waste today.
勿指望明天。要是这样的话，你将浪费今天。
3. Drunken days have all their tomorrows.
乐极生悲。
4. Fear not the future; weep not for the past.
不要畏惧未来，也不要为过去而哭泣。
5. He that falls today may rise tomorrow.
东山再起。卷土重来。重整旗鼓。
6. Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday--but never jam today. [Lewis Carroll]
明天有果酱，昨天有果酱，但是今天就是没有果酱。
（加罪尔）
7. Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.
只为今天而活，失败就在明天。
8. Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
今日事，今日毕。
9. One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
今天一小时胜于明天两小时。机不可失。
10. One today is worth two tomorrows.
一个今天抵得上两个明天。
11. The best time to worry is tomorrow.
最佳的忧虑时间就是明天。
12. Think today and speak tomorrow.
熟思而后言。
13. To a lazy man, tomorrow is always the best day of the year.
懒人总认为明天是一年中最好的日子。
Wisdom and Foolishness （智慧与愚昧）
1. A fool always finds a bigger fool to praise him. [French Proverb]
傻瓜总是找到一个比他更傻的人来称赞他。（法国谚语）
2. A fool may give a wise man counsel.
愚者可以给智者忠告。愚者千虑，必有一得。
3. A fool's bolt is soon shot.
愚者易竭其智。黔驴之技易穷。蠢人沉不住气。
4. A fool's haste is no speed.
瞎忙快不了。急急忙忙，想快反慢。
5. A fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
话多者蠢。
6. A man cannot leave his wisdom or his experience to his heirs.
[Italian Proverb]
一个人的智慧和经验不能传授给他的继承人。(意大利谚语)
7. A still tongue makes a wise head.
舌头少动，则头脑精明。沉默为智。
8. A wise man always knows when to stop for breathing space.
有智慧的人常知道该在怎么时候停下来休息。
9. A wise man is never less alone than when alone.
智者独处时最不寂寞。
10. A wise man knows his own ignorance; a fool thinks he knows
everything.
智者了解自己的无知，愚者自以为自己无所不知。
11. A wise man never wants a weapon.
智者从来不需要武器。
12. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
智者创造的机会比他所找到的更多。
中国谚语的英译
天涯何处无芳草。
There are other fish in the sea.
留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。
Where there is life, there is hope.
画虎画皮难画骨，知人知面不知心。
It is easy to draw a tiger's skin but difficult to know ones' heart.
富在深山有远亲，穷在闹市无近邻。
A rich man who lives in the distant mountain may have relatives from
far-away places. A poor man who lives in the city may not have friends
in the neighborhood.
人生不满百，常怀千年忧。
A man does not live a hundred years, yet he worries enough for a
thousand.
生不带来，死不带去。
At birth we bring nothing; at death we take away nothing.
前事不忘后事之师。
By not forgetting past events, we can take them as guides in future
events.
一将功成万骨枯。
The blood of the soldiers makes the glory of the general.
良言一句三冬暖。
A single kind word keeps one warm for three winters.
巧媳妇难为无米之炊。
Even a clever daughter-in-law finds it hard to cook without rice.
学海无涯，惟勤是岸。
Knowledge, like a sea, is boundless; only through hard study can one
reach the destination.
学好千日不足，学坏一时有余。
To learn what is good, a thousand days are not enough; to learn what is
evil, an hour is too long.
开卷有益。
You cannot open a book without learning something.
腰缠万贯，不若薄技在身。
It is better to learn a certain trade than to possess a large fortune.
疑人莫用，用人莫疑。
Never employ the man you suspect, nor suspect the man you employ.
亲兄弟明算帐。
Even brothers keep careful accounts.
大智若愚。
Intelligent man looks dull.
出门看天色；进门看脸色。
Look at the weather when you step out; look at men's faces when you
step in.
人皆有不忍人之心。
All men have a mind which cannot bear to see the sufferings of others.
画虎不成反类犬。
He painted a tiger but it turned out a dog.
宁为鸡首，不为牛后。
Better be the head of a chicken than the tail of an ox.
天下乌鸦一般黑。
Crows are black the whole world over.(The world is much the same
everywhere.)
亡羊补牢，犹未晚也。
It is never too late to mend.
临渊羡鱼，不如退而结网。
It's better to return home and make a net than long for fish on the
edge of the pond.
童心如佛心。
The heart of a little child is like the heart of the Buddha.
居安思危。
To think of danger in time of peace.
三思而后行。
Look before you leap.
是非只为多开口。
Mischief all comes from much opening of the mouth.
人心不足蛇吞象。
A man whose heart is not contented is like a snake which tries to
swallow an elephant.
当局者迷。
Men are blind in their own cause.
有钱能使鬼推磨！
Money talks!
树大招风。
Tall trees catch much wind.