1. most things have two handles.

多數事物有兩種解釋。

2. music is the eye of the ear.

音樂是耳朵的眼睛。

3. necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant.

需要和機會，可使懦夫變勇敢。

4. necessity is the mother of invention.

需要是發明之母。

5. neither fish nor flesh (nor good red herring).

非驢非馬;不倫不類。

6. never judge from appearances.

不可根據外貌判斷;不可以貌取人。

7. never too late to mend.

補過不嫌晚。

8. no cross, no crown.

沒有十字架，就沒有王冠;無苦即無樂。

9. no man can do two things at once.

一人不能同時做兩件事;心無二用。

10.no man ever became thoroughly bad all at once.

從來沒有驟然變得極壞的人。

11.no man is content.

知足的人世上無。

12.no mill, no meal.

不磨面就沒有面包吃。

13.no pleasure without pain.

沒有無痛苦的歡樂。

14.no rose without a thorn.

玫瑰皆有刺(沒有盡善盡美的幸福)。

15.no smoke without some fire.

無火不生煙;無風不起浪。

16.nothing venture, nothing have.

不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

17.obedience is the first duty of a soldier.

服從是軍人的第一職責。

18.older and wiser.

老而益精;越老越聰明。

19.old bees yield no honey.

老蜂不產蜜。

20.old vessels must leak.

船舊必漏。

21.once a devil, always a devil.

一次做魔鬼，永遠是魔鬼。

22.one flower makes no garland.

一朵花做不成一個花環。

23.one foot is better than two crutches.

一只腳勝過兩條拐仗。

24.oppression maketh a wise man mad.

人處壓迫下，聰明也會瘋。

25.out of sitght, out of mind.

眼不見，心不想。

26.pain is forgotten where gain follows.

一朝得了利，痛苦便忘記。

27.patience is the plaster of all sores.

忍耐是一切痛苦的止痛膏。

28.patient men win the day.

能忍者勝。

29.peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making.

和平時期手執劍，這樣做來最保險;有備無患。

30.pen and ink is wit's plough.

筆墨是才智之犁。

31.penny wise and pound foolish.

小事聰明，大事糊涂。

32.poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

縱然裝入金杯，毒藥還是毒藥。

33.pouring oil on the fire is no way to quench it.

加油不是滅火法。

34.praise is not pudding.

恭維不等于布丁;恭維不是實惠。

35.promises are like piecrust, made to be broken.

諾言好似餡餅皮，做來便是為咬碎。

36.promise is debt.

許愿要還，欠債要清;許愿如欠債，欠了便要還。

37.public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it.

公款如圣水，人人都要嘗一嘴。

38.quietness is best.

寧靜最好。

39.rain before seven: fine before eleven.

早雨不過午。

40. reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,and writing an exact man.

閱讀使人淵博，會談使人機敏，寫作使人嚴謹。