Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. 
相聚愛益切，離別情更深。 
A burnt child dreads the fire. 
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。 
Accidents will happen. 
天有不測風云。 
A clean hand wants no washing. 
身正不怕影子斜。 
A clear conscience is a soft pillow. 
問心無愧，高枕無憂。 
A clear conscience is a sure card. 
光明磊落，勝券在握。 
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations. 
白日不做虧心事，夜半敲門心不驚。 
A clear fast is better than a dirty breakfast. 
寧為清貧，不為濁富。 
A close mouth catches no flies. 
病從口入，禍從口出。 
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill. 
夜郎自大。 
A common danger causes common action. 
同仇敵愾。 
A contented mind is perpetual feast. 
知足常樂。 
Actions speak louder than words. 
事實勝於雄辯。 
Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public. 
在私底下要忠告你的朋友，在公開場合又表揚你的朋友。 
A fair face may hide a foul heart. 
人不可貌相。 
A faithful friend is hard to find. 
益友難得。 
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 
吃一塹，長一智。 
After a storm comes a calm. 
否極泰來。 
After black clouds, clear weather. 
否極泰來。 
After death, the doctor. 
放馬后炮。 
A good appetite is a good sauce. 
饑不擇食。 
A good example is the best sermon. 
身教勝似言教。 
A good face is a letter of recommendation. 
好的相貌就是一封推薦的介紹信。 
A good fame is better than a good face. 
好的名望勝於好的相貌。 
A good friend is my nearest relation. 
良友如近親。 
A good marksman may miss. 
智者千慮，必有一失。 
A good maxim is never out of season. 
至理名言不會過時。 
A good medicine tastes bitter. 
良藥苦口，忠言逆耳。 
A good winter brings a good summer. 
瑞雪兆豐年。 
A happy heart makes a blooming visage. 



心花怒放，笑逐顏開。 
A hero is known in the time of misfortune. 
時勢造英雄。 
A lazy youth, a lousy age. 
少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。 
Ale will make a cat speak. 
酒后吐真言。 
A little is better than none. 
聊勝於無。 
A little leak will sink a great ship. 
千丈之堤潰於蟻穴。 
A little neglect may breed great mischief. 
小不忍則亂大謀。 
A little spark kindles a great fire. 
星星之火，可以燎原。 
A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire. 
適可而止，過猶不及。 
All covet, all lose. 
貪多必失。 
All is fair in war. 
兵不厭詐。 
All is not gold that glitters. 
閃光的東西并不都是黃金。 
All roads lead to Rome. 
條條道路通羅馬。 
All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill. 
有情人終成眷屬。 
All the treasures of the earth would not bring back one lost moment. 
機會失去不再來，千貫萬貫難贖回。 
All things are easy that are done willingly. 
做事樂意，諸事容易。 
All things are obedient to money. 
有錢能使鬼推磨。 
A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst. 
少女有了許多求婚者往往選中了最差的一個。 
A man apt to promise is apt to forget. 
輕諾者易忘。 
A man can not spin and reel at the same time. 
一心不能二用。 
A man cannot whistle and drink at he same time. 
一心不能二用。 
A man has two ears and one mouth that he may hear much and speak little. 
人有兩只耳朵一張嘴，就是為了多聽少說話。 
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. 
路遙知馬力，日久見人心。 
A man may dig his grave with his teeth. 
禍從口出。 
A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink. 
牽馬到河易，強馬飲水難。 
A man may love his house well without riding on the ridge. 
有寶何必人前夸。 
A match will set fire to a large building. 



星星之火，可以燎原。 
Ambition never dies until there is no way out. 
不到黃河心不死 
A miss is as good as a mile. 
失之毫厘，差之千里。 
Among the blind the one-eyed man is king. 
山中無老虎，猴子稱霸王。 
A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman. 
遠親不如近鄰。 
An enemy's mouth seldom speaks well. 
狗嘴里吐不出象牙。 
An evil chance seldom comes alone. 
禍不單行。 
A new broom sweeps clean. 
新官上任三把火。 
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. 
一日之計在於晨。 
An old physician, and a young lawyer. 
醫生年老的好，律師年輕的俏。 
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. 
樂觀的人在災難中看到希望；悲觀的人在希望中看到災難。 
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 
預防勝於治療。 
Answer a fool according to his folly. 
以其人之道，還治其人之身。 
A penny saved is a penny earned. 
省錢就是賺錢。 
Apparel makes the man. 
馬靠鞍裝，人靠衣裝。 
Appearances are deceitful. 
人不可貌相，海水不可斗量。 
A road of a thousand miles begins with one step. 
千里之行始於足下。 
A rolling stone gathers no moss. 
滾石不生苔，轉業不聚財。 
As a man sows, so he shall reap. 
種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆。 
A secret between more than two is no secret. 
兩人以上知道的秘密就不算秘密。 
A servant is known by his master's absence. 
主人不在可以看出仆人的品行來。 
A silent tongue and true heart are the most admirable things on earth. 
緘默的嘴，真誠的心，是世界上最令人贊美的東西。 
A single spark can start a prairie fire. 
塞翁失馬，焉知非福。 
Be honest rather clever. 
誠實比聰明更要緊。 
Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle. 
隨遇而安。 
Be just to all, but trust not all. 
要公正對待所有的人，但不要輕信所有的人。 
Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear. 
眼見的不能全信，耳聞的也不能半信。 
Be slow to promise and quick to perform. 
不輕諾，諾必果。 
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. 
多聽少說。 
Better an empty purse than an empty head. 
寧可錢袋癟，不要腦袋空。 
Better an open enemy than a false friend. 
明槍易躲，暗箭難防。 
Better good neighbours near than relations far away. 
遠親不如近鄰。 
Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip. 
功虧一簣。 
Between two stools one falls to the ground. 
腳踏兩頭要落空。 
Beware beginnings. 
慎始為上。 
Big mouthfuls ofter choke. 
貪多嚼不爛。 
Bind the sack before it be full. 
做事應適可而止。 
Birds of a feather flock together. 
物以類聚，人以群分。 
Birth is much, but breeding is more. 
出身固然重要，教養更且重要。 
Bite off more than one can chew. 
貪多咽不下。 
Bite the hand that feeds one. 
恩將仇報。 
Bitter pills may have wholesome effects. 
良藥苦口利於病。 
Blind men can judge no colours. 
不宜問道於盲。 
Blood is thicker than water. 
血濃於水。 
Bread is the staff of life. 
民以食為天。 
Brevity is the soul of wit. 
言以簡潔為貴。 
Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes. 
養虎貽患。 
Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse. 
投鼠忌器。 
Burnt child dreads the fire. 
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。 
Business before pleasure. 
事業在先，享樂在后。 
Business is business. 
公事公辦。 
By other's faults, wise men correct their own. 
他山之石，可以攻玉。 
By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it. 
讀書可以使我門的思想充實，談話使其更臻完美 

If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry. 
如果你希望成功，當以恒心為良友，以經驗為參謀，以謹慎為兄弟，以希望為哨兵。 
－Thomas Edison（美國發明家愛迪生） 
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. 
健康當然比金錢更為重要，因為我們所賴以獲得金錢的就是健康。 
－Samuel Johnson（英國作家約翰遜）   
Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success. 
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。 
－Louis Pasteur（法國化學家巴斯勒） 
All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend. 
人世間所有的榮華富貴不如一個好朋友。 
－Voltaire（法國思想家伏爾泰） 
There is a great different between exposure of the mind and that of the body. 
表露思想和展露身體之間存在極大的不同。 
－William Hazlitt（英國批評家散文家哈滋里特） 
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. 
懷著希望去旅行比抵達目的地更愉快；而真正的成功在于工作。 
－Robert Louis Stevenson（英國作家史蒂文森） 
The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him. 
一個人越偉大，對表揚和奉承就越反感。 
－John Burroughs（美國博物學家巴勒斯） 
I might say that success is won by three things: first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort. 
可以說成功要*三件事才能贏得：努力，努力，再努力。 
－Thomas Hardy（英國詩人小說家哈代） 
Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. 
成功常常取決于知道需要多久才能成功。 
－Charles Montesquieu（法國思想家孟德斯鳩） 
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. 
只有有耐心圓滿完成簡單工作的人，才能夠輕而易舉的完成困難的事。 
－Friedrich Schiller（德國劇作家詩人席勒） 
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You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. 
你必須相信自己，這是成功的關鍵。 
－Charles Chaplin（美國演員卓別林）  
The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible". 
凡是決心取得勝利的人是從來不說"不可能的"。 
－Bonapart Napoleon（法國皇帝拿破侖） 
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. 
進步是今天的活動，明天的保證。 
－Emerson（美國思想家愛默生） 
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. 
命運給予我們的不是失望之酒，而是機會之杯。 
－Richard Nixon（美國總統尼克松） 
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. 
奇跡有時候是會發生的，但是你得為之拼命的努力。 
－C. Weizmann（愛爾蘭總統魏茨曼） 
It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. 
天上不會掉下玫瑰來，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必須自己種植。 
－G. Eliot（英國小說家艾略特） 
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. 
如果你很有天賦，勤勉會使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉會補足其缺陷。 
－Joshuas Reynolds（美國散文家雷諾茲） 
Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,rather than of means, that man fails to succeed. 
事情很少又根本做不成的；其所以做不成，與其說是條件不夠，不如說是由于決心不夠。 
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Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb. 
大膽挑戰，世界總會讓步。如果有時候你被它打敗了，不斷地挑戰，它總會屈服地。 
－W.M Thackeray（英國小說家薩克雷） 
All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right. 
做一切事情都應盡力而為，半途而廢永遠不行。 
－R.H. Stoddard（美國詩人斯托達德） 
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. 
一個人可以失敗多次，但是只要他沒有開始責怪旁人，他還不是一個失敗者。 
－J.Burroughs（美國博物學家巴勒斯） 
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. 
從一個國家的廣告可以看出這個國家的理想。 
－Norman Douglas（英國作家道格拉斯） 
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. 
實現明天理想的唯一障礙是今天的疑慮。 
－Franklin Roosevelt（美國總統羅斯福） 

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. 
人世間的大多數煩惱都是由那些想成為重要人物的人惹出來的。 
－George Eliot（英國小說家艾略特） 
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. 
如果你懷疑自己，那么你的立足點確實不穩固了。 
－Ibsen（挪威劇作家易卜生） 
Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life. 
理想是指路明燈。沒有理想，就沒有堅定的方向；沒有方向，就沒有生活。 
－Leo Tolstory（俄國作家托爾斯泰） 
Ideal are like the stars --- we never reach them , but like mariners , we chart our course by them. 
理想猶如天上的星星，我們猶如稅收水手，雖不能達到天上，但是我們的航程可憑借它指引。 
－Carl Schurz（美國政治家舒爾茨） 
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. 
人生應該樹立目標，否則你的精神會白白浪費。 
－R. Peters（美國法學家彼得斯） 
Don't part with your illusions, When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. 
不要放棄你的幻想。當幻想沒有了以后，你還可以生存，但是你雖生猶死。 
－Mark Twain（馬克?吐溫） 
 Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.