英语谚语词典

作者：王福祯
英语谚语词典
王福祯
1．时间?机会
1. Time flies.
光阴似箭。
时光易逝。
2. Time is money.
时间就是金钱。
一寸光阴一寸金。
3. Time and tide wait for no man.
岁月无情。
时不待人。
4. Time marches on.
时光永不回头。
5. The morning sun never lasts a day.
好景不常在。
6. Christmas comes but once a year.
圣诞一年只一度。
7. Time tries all (the things).
时间检验一切。
8. Time tries truth.
时间检验真理。
9. Time will show [tell].
日久自明。
10. Time tames the strongest grief.
时间能安抚极度的悲痛。
11. Time is a great healer.
时间是最好的医生。
时间是治愈精神创伤的良药。
12. Time is the best healer.
13. Time is the great physician.
时间是最好的医生。
14. Time cures all things.
时间能治愈一切。
15. Time heals all wounds.
时间可以治愈一切创伤。
16. Time works wonders.
时间可以创造奇迹。
17. Time works great changes.
时间可以使万物发生巨变。
18. Times change.
时代在变。
19. Time dissolves all things.
时间消融一切。
时间使一切事物难以永存。
20. Tomorrow comes never.
切莫依赖明天。
21. No time like the present.
22. There is no time like the present.
大好时机在眼前。
眼下时间最宝贵。
23. Now for it!
现在就干。
此时不干，更待何时？
24. Now or never.
机不可失，时不再来。
此时不干，更待何时？
25. One today is worth two tomorrows.
一个今天胜似两个明天。
26. One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
今天一个小时抵得上明天两个小时。
27. An hour in the morning before breakfast is worth two all the rest of the day.
早饭前一小时抵得上其他时间的两小时。
一日之计在于晨。
28. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
早晨一小时抵得上晚间的两小时。
一日之计在于晨。
29. Lose an hour in the morning, and you’ll be all day hunting for it.
30. Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
早晨损失一小时，一天时间来弥补。
一日之计在于晨。
31. You cannot have two forenoons in the same day.
人不能在一日之内有两个早晨。
32. Time past cannot be called back again.
33. Lost time is never found again.
34. All time is no time when it is past.
35. Time lost cannot be recalled.
时光一去不复返。
岁月既往，不可复追。
36. Pleasant hours fly past.
快乐时光去如飞。
37. Happiness takes no account of time.
欢娱不惜时光逝。
38. No one can call back yesterday.
39. Yesterday will not be called again.
昨日不复来。
逝去的光阴不复还。
40. No man can call again yesterday.
无人能唤回昨天。
光阴一去不复返。
41. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
如果时间是最宝贵的，那么浪费时间便是最大的浪费。
一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴。
42. Things past cannot be recalled.
过去的事情无可挽回。
43. Money lost, little lost; time lost, everything lost.
失去金钱，损失很小；失去时间，失去一切。
44. The day is short but the work is much.
工作多，时光迫。
45. To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three.
事事及时做，一日胜三日。
46. A stitch in time saves nine.
一针及时省九针。
一针不补，十针难缝。
47. Who repairs not his gutter repairs his whole house.
檐沟失修，全屋大修。
小洞不补，大洞难堵。
48. Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.
49. Don’t put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
50. Don’t put off what you can do today till tomorrow.
51. Never put off till tomorrow what can [may] be done today.
52. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
今日事今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。
53. Work today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.
今日有事今日做，明日可能障碍多。
54. One of these days is none of these days.
“总有一天”就是“总没一天”。
“改天再干”就是“永远不干”。
55. Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it now.
明日事今日做。
56. Seize the present, trusting the tomorrow as little as may be.
抓住今天，少信明天。
57. There are no birds of this year in last year’s nests.
去年的巢里找不到今年的鸟。
时过境迁。
58. Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.
充分利用时间的人，没有空闲。
珍惜光阴者无暇时。
59. The sea has fish for every man.
海中有鱼，人人可取。
人人都有获利的机会。
60. There is a tide in the affairs of men.
凡事皆有机运。
人生都有机运。
61. Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
机遇很少敲两次门。
机不可失，时不再来。
62. Opportunities do not wait.
机遇不等人。
63. There is no time to lose.
机不可失。
64. When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you.
机不可失，时不再来。
65. An occasion lost cannot be redeemed.
错过机会，无法挽回。
机不可失，时不再来。
66. Everything has its time.
67. There is a time for all things.
68. There is a time for everything.
万物皆有时。
物当其时，各有佳期。
69. Everything has its time and that time must be watched.
万物皆有时，时来不可失。
机不可失，时不再来。
70. He who will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
有机会时他不干，他想干时机会完。
机不可失，时不再来。
过了这个村，遇不到这个店。
71. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
逝去的水不能使磨轮转动。
机不可失，时不再来。
72. Take time when time cometh, lest time steal away.
时来要惜时，时去无声息。
73. A mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
逝去的流水驱动不了磨盘。
水去无还，磨盘不转。
74. He loses all who loses the moment.
错过机会便错过一切。
抓不住机会就会失去一切。
75. It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
失去良机，悔之晚矣。
76. Seize time by the forelock.
抓住时机。
机不可失，时不再来。
77. Strike while the iron is hot.
78. Strike the iron while it is hot.
趁热打铁。
79. As the wind blows, you must set your sail.
趁风启帆。
80. Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
风顺便扯帆。
81. Make hay while the sun shines.
晒草要趁太阳好。
82. Every tide hath its ebb.
潮涨必有潮落时。
83. To save time is to lengthen life.
节约时间就是延长生命。
84. Punctuality is the soul of business.
守时为事业的灵魂。
85. Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
守时乃国王之礼。
守事非常重要。
86. Procrastination is the thief of time.
拖延就是浪费时间。
87. Delays are dangerous.
拖拖拉拉是危险的。
拖延误事。
88. You may delay, but time will not.
人拖时不拖。
岁月不待人。
89. He who hesitates is lost.
犹豫不决者坐失良机。
迟疑失良机。
当断不断，必受其患。
90. It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen.
91. It is too late to shut the stable door after the horse has been stolen.
92. It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
93. When the horse is stolen, (you) lock the stable door.
失马锁厩，为时已晚。
贼去关门，为时已迟。
94. When the calf is stolen, the farmer mends the stall.
牛被盗后修牛圈。
亡羊补牢。
95. Don’t let the grass grow under your feet.
96. Let no grass grow under your feet.
莫让脚下青草丛生。
莫虚度光阴。
莫让年华似水流。
97. Don’t trifle away your time.
莫虚度光阴。
莫让年华似水流。
98. Who waits for time, loses time.
坐待时机，就会失去时机。
99. He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion.
存心要捣乱，不怕没机会。
100. Drunken days have all their tomorrows.
今宵酒醉，明朝受罪。
今朝大鱼大肉，明日必吃苦头。
2．爱情?婚姻
101. Love begets love.
102. Love is the mother of love.
爱爱相生。
情生情，爱生爱。
103. Love cannot be compelled.
104. Love cannot be forced.
爱情不能强迫。
105. Love and a cough cannot be hid.
爱情和咳嗽不能隐瞒。
106. Love needs no teaching.
爱情不需教导。
107. Love is without reason.
爱情无理智。
108. Love is blind.
爱情是盲目的。
情人眼里出西施。
109. Love blinds a man to imperfections.
爱情使人看不见缺点。
110. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
爱情是盲目的，情侣们往往看不见他们自己所犯下的愚蠢错误。
111. Hatred is blind as well as love.
爱情和仇恨，二者皆盲目。
112. Love is full of trouble.
爱情充满了烦恼。
113. Love is a sweet torment.
爱情是一种甜蜜的痛苦。
114. Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
爱情是可爱的虐政，情人们甘愿受此痛苦的折磨。
115. Love is the touchstone of virtue.
爱情是美德的试金石。
116. Love and lordship like no fellowship.
117. Love and lordship never like fellowship.
爱要独占，权要独揽。
118. Love asks faith, and faith firmness.
爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。
119. Love at first sight.
一见倾心。
120. Love not at the first look.
不要一见钟情。
121. A maid that laughs is half taken.
少女笑口开，婚事成一半。
122. A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.
有许多人向她求婚的少女，常常选中最差的一人。
123. Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything.
未婚女子只要夫，有夫之后要一切。
124. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
要想赢得女儿欢心，必须先从母亲着手。
125. Haste love, soon cold.
爱得匆忙冷得快。
126. Hot love is soon cold.
爱得热，冷得快。
127. The love that is too violent will not last long.
狂热的爱不会持久。
128. Love is not to be found in the market.
爱情在市场上找不到。
129. Love can neither be bought nor sold.
爱情不能买卖。
130. Love can neither be bought or sold; its only price is love.
爱情不能买卖，爱的价值唯有爱。
131. Love will find a way.
132. Love will find out the way.
爱情自会寻出路。
爱之所至，金石为开。
133. Love will creep where it may not go.
爱总是尽其所能。
134. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
爱情不分贫富。
135. Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
爱情可化茅庐为金殿。
136. Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
爱情的王国毋须刀剑来统治。
137. Love is the reward of love.
138. Love is the true price of love.
爱是爱的回报。
爱情的真正价值在于爱。
139. Love is never paid but with true love.
爱情需用真爱换。
140. Love, and love only, is the loan for love.
爱情宿债，唯爱能还。
141. Labour is light where love doth pay.
爱情付报酬，劳苦也轻松。
142. Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
爱情可软化一切冷酷之心。
143. Love makes a wit of the fool.
爱情可使傻瓜变聪明。
傻瓜有爱情，也会变聪明。
144. Love makes obedience easy.
爱情使顺从成为易事。
145. Love makes one fit for any work.
爱情使人适应任何工作。
146. True love is giving, not taking.
真正的爱情是给予，不是索取。
147. Whom we love best to them we can say least.
人们对最爱的人所能说的话最少。
148. The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
真正的爱情永远不变心。
149. The course of true love never did run smooth.
爱情之路无坦途。
150. Sound love is not soon forgotten.
坚固的爱情不会顷刻忘怀。
151. Old love will not be forgotten.
旧情难忘。
152. True love shows itself in time of need.
患难方显真情在。
153. True love never grows old.
真情永不老。
真情永不渝。
154. When love puts in, friendship is gone.
爱情介入，友情完结。
155. Love should not be all on one side.
爱情不应该是单方面的。
156. Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
追求爱情它高飞，逃避爱情它跟随。
157. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
求得的爱情固然美好，但未经追求而得到的爱情更美好。
158. Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end.
爱情是先甜后酸。
159. Of soup and love, the first is the best.
爱情和汤水，初尝最鲜美。
160. It is love that makes the world go round.
161. Love makes the world go round.
爱情使世界转动。
162. No love is foul, nor prison fair.
没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。
163. Love will not yield to all the might of wealth.
爱情决不屈服于金钱的压力。
164. The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
最大的恨来自最大的爱。
165. Love as in time to come you should hate, and hate as you should in time to come, love.
爱到最后你会恨，恨到最后你会爱。
爱不可太亲，恨不可至极。
166. Where love fails, we espy all faults.
爱情一旦失败，所有毛病都发现。
167. Faults are thick while love is thin.
一朝情义淡，样样不顺眼。
168. Without respect, love cannot go far.
没有相互尊重，爱情难以长久。
169. One love drives out another.
170. One love expels another.
此欢逐彼爱。
旧爱难敌新欢。
171. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
贫穷一进门，爱情跳窗走。
172. Unkindness destroys love.
冷漠毁灭爱情。
173. Pity is a level for quickening love.
怜悯是加速爱情的手段。
怜悯致爱。
174. Falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
情人越吵情越深。
175. Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended.
恋人争吵，很快和好。
夫妻无隔夜之仇。
176. Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks.
情侣靠爱情生活，犹如云雀靠韭葱生活。
177. A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.
人开始爱上谁，可有选择；不爱谁时，却无可选择。
178. Beauty is in the beholder’s eye.
179. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder [gazer].
180. Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.
情人眼里出西施。
181. Love is never without jealousy.
爱情绝不会没有妒忌。
有爱情必有妒忌。
182. All is fair in love and war.
情场如战场，一切都正常。
情场战场，各显所长。
183. All shall be well, Jack shall have Gill [Jill].
有情人皆成眷属。
184. Every Jack has his Jill.
185. Every Jack must [shall] have his Jill [Gill].
人各有偶。
破锅不愁无烂盖，男人自有女人爱。
186. Marriage is a lottery.
婚姻之事难预测。
187. Every couple is not a pair.
成对未必成双。
夫妻不尽般配。
188. It is not every couple that is a pair.
成双未必能配对。
天下夫妻多，珠联璧合少。
189. Marriage goes by contrasts.
婚姻往往不般配。
夫妻常常不相配。
190. Marry a wife of thine own degree.
娶妻应与己般配。
191. Fanned fires and forced love never did well yet.
扇起的火苗和勉强的爱情从来不会长久。
捆绑不成夫妻。
192. Forced love does not last.
勉强的爱情不会长久。
捆绑不成夫妻。
193. Marriages are made in heaven.
姻缘由天定。
194. Marriage comes by destiny.
195. Marriage is destiny.
姻缘命中注定。
196. Marry thy like.
跟你情投意合的人结婚。
197. Marriage makes or mars a man.
婚姻造就人，也能毁坏人。
198. Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
匆匆结婚姻，闲来悔不尽。
199. Marry too soon, and you’ll repent too late.
结婚过急，悔之晚矣。
200. They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen.
年纪轻轻就结婚，为时不久便悔恨。
201. Marry in lent, and you’ll live to repent.
借债结婚，终生悔恨。
202. Who marrieth for love without money, hath good nights and sorry days.
为了爱情，无钱结婚，夜来欢娱，白天悔恨。
203. He that marries for wealth, sells his liberty.
为财富结婚，出卖了自由。
204. Early wed, early dead.
早婚者早夭。
205. It is good to marry late or never.
晚婚或不婚，都是好事情。
206. Wedlock is a padlock.
婚姻犹如一把锁。
207. A young man married is a man that’s marred.
男子早婚，种下祸根。
208. Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all.
老实的人早结婚，聪明的人不结婚。
209. The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
懦夫造就凶悍妻。
210. Better be half hanged than ill wed.
与其拥有不幸的婚姻，不如孤守单身。
211. The good or ill hap of a good or ill wife.
212. Is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
老婆选得好，一生无烦恼；老婆没选好，日子过得糟。
213. An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
不幸的婚姻乃厄运之源。
214. He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.
不尊重妻子的人，也不会受到尊重。
215. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
216. A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only.
择妻靠耳不靠眼。
217. A wooer should opens his ears more than his eyes.
找对象要多用耳，少用眼。
218. A good wife makes a good husband.
妻贤夫自良。
有好的妻子，就有好的丈夫。
219. A good husband makes a good wife.
夫善则妻贤。
220. A good Jack makes a good Jill [Gill].
夫善则妻贤。
主贤则仆忠。
221. A bad husband makes a bad wife.
有恶夫必有恶妻。
夫恶妻不善。
不是一家人，不进一家门。
222. As is the husband, so is the wife.
有其夫必有其妻。
不是一家人，不进一家门。
223. A nice wife and a back door will soon make a rich man poor.
老婆挥霍后门漏，常使富人穷个够。
224. Let beggars match with beggars.
龙配龙，凤配凤。
瘸驴配破磨。
225. There is no pot so ugly that it can’t find a lid.
壶再丑，也能找到盖子。
鱼恋鱼，虾恋虾，乌龟找王八。
226. The wife is the key of the house.
妻贤一家兴。
妻子是一家兴旺的关键。
227. Mills and wives are ever wanting.
好磨难得，贤妻难寻。
228. In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another.
择妻犹如选剑，莫靠他人挑选。
229. A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth.
妻贤和健康，男子两件宝。
230. The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue.
妻贤在德不在貌。
231. A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness.
丈夫耳聋，妻子眼瞎，方有安定之家。
232. Two is company, (but) three is none.
两人成伴，三人不欢。
233. It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
母鸡司晨家不兴。
234. He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble.
马骏妻娇，麻烦不会少。
235. The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.
女人照镜越多，照管家务就越少。
236. A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.
丰满漂亮的寡妇要么再嫁，要么死掉，要么关进修道院。
寡妇门前是非多。
3．家庭?子女
237. East or west, home is best.
东好西好，还是自家好。
金窝银窝，不如自家的草窝。
238. Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
自己的家再穷，也没有任何地方能比得上。
金窝银窝，不如自家的草窝。
239. Home is home, be it never so homely.
240. Home is home, though (it be) never so homely.
家虽简陋，终归是家。
金窝银窝，不如自家的草窝。
241. Every bird likes its own nest (best).
鸟皆爱其巢。
人皆爱其家。
242. It is a dirty [foolish] bird that fouls [soils] its own nest.
243. It is an ill bird that fouls [soils] its own nest.
再脏[傻，坏]的鸟也不会将自己的窝弄脏。
鸟不脏巢，人不毁家。
244. There is no place like home.
世界各处不如家。
245. Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
家里的干面包，也比外面的烤肉好。
在家处处好，出门时时难。
246. Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
即使家规严，丑事总难免。
247. Do not wash your dirty linen in public.
248. Dirty linen should be washed at home.
249. Wash your dirty linen at home.
不要在大庭广众下洗脏衣服。
脏衣服应在自家洗。
家丑不可外扬。
250. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
251. There is a skeleton in every house.
252. There is a skeleton in the cupboard.
家家都有难言之隐。
253. A man’s house is castle.
家是人的城堡。
254. An Englishman’s home is his castle.
英国人的家就是他的城堡。
255. As the house to the man, so is the nest to the bird and the cave to the animal.
家之于人，犹如巢之于鸟，穴之于兽。
256. Home is where the heart is.
心在哪里，家就在哪里。
哪里欢乐哪是家。
257. If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
家庭不和，难以立足。
家不和，外人欺。
258. Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
施舍先及亲友，但不应限于亲友。
259. Like father, like son.
有其父，必有其子。
260. Like mother, like daughter.
有其母，必有其女。
261. Children are what the mothers are.
有什么样的母亲，就有什么样的孩子。
262. Children have the qualities of the parents.
子女具有父母的品质。
有什么样的父母，就有什么样的孩子。
263. As the old cock crows, the young (one) learns.
老公鸡怎样啼，小公鸡就怎样叫。
父母是孩子的榜样。
264. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
一个父亲胜于一百个教师。
265. A mother’s love never changes.
母爱亘古不变。
266. The mother’s breath is aye sweet.
母亲的低语总是甜蜜的。
267. A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing.
太多母爱，孩子被宠坏。
268. A lighted-heeled mother makes a heavy-heeled daughter.
母亲勤快，女儿懒散。
269. A pet lamb makes a cross ram.
受宠的羊羔会变成性情暴躁的公羊。
270. A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
有吝啬的父亲就有败家的儿子。
271. Blood is thicker than water.
血浓于水。
亲人总比外人亲。
272. Children are the parents’ riches.
子女是父母的至宝。
273. Every mother’s child is handsome.
274. Every mother thinks her child beautiful.
母亲都觉孩儿俊。
敝帚自珍。
275. One chick keeps a hen busy.
一雏已足扰其母。
独子亦费娘操心。
276. One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father.
一个父亲可以养活十个孩子，十个孩子却不能供养一个父亲。
277. Great men’s sons seldom do well.
大人物的子孙少出息。
278. Many a good father hath but a bad son.
贤父难免生逆子。
279. Every mother breeds not sons alike.
一个娘养的孩子并非都一样。
280. The father buys, the son bigs, the grandchild sells, and his son thigs.
父置子建孙子卖，重孙上街当乞丐。
281. Children learn to creep ere they can go.
孩子要走路，先得学爬行。
282. A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world.
小孩是世界上最可爱、最纯洁的东西。
283. Happy is he that is happy in childhood.
童年快乐的人是幸福的。
284. He that hath no children, knows not what is love.
285. He knows not what love is that has no children.
没有子女的人，就不懂得什么是爱。
286. The child is father of the man.
三岁定到老。
从一个人小时候就可以看出他长大后是个什么样子。
287. The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
从童年可以看到成年，从早晨可以看到全天。
从小看大，七岁看老。
288. As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined.
苗歪树不直。
从小偷针，长大偷金。
289. Silly (=Good) child is soon ylered (=taught).
好孩子，学得快。
290. Children and fools cannot lie.
孩子和愚人不会说谎。
291. It is a wise father that knows his own child.
任何聪明的父亲也不见得都了解自己的孩子。
再聪明的父亲都不见得完全知道自己的儿子。
292. Little pitchers have long ears.
小孩子耳朵长。
秘密别让小孩听到。
293. Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
调皮的男孩长大后有时会成为很有作为的人。
294. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
295. He that spares the rod, hates his son.
省了棍棒，坏了孩子。
小孩不打不成器。
296. A tree must be bent while it is young.
297. The tree must be bent while it is young.
298. Best to bend while ’its a twig.
扶正树木当在枝嫩之时。
育人当在幼小时。
299. A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree.
嫩枝易弯，老树难直。
育人宜在年少时。
300. There is always something to be cut off young trees if they are to grow well.
小树要长好，定要修枝条。
树不修不成材，子不育不成人。
301. Mother’s darlings are but milksop heroes.
娇养的儿女成不了大器。
302. One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.
一个男孩比十二个女孩增添的麻烦还多。
303. Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.
孩子肯定使人操心，但不一定带来安慰。
304. My son is my son till he hath got him a wife; but my daughter’s my daughter all the days of
her life.
儿子婚后是别人的，可女儿终生是自己的。
305. Would you know your daughter, see her in company.
要想了解女儿，只需观其交往。
306. Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares.
死鱼非存货，女大不可留。
307. It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.
养女容易嫁女难。
308. Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.
娶媳遂你愿，嫁女看可能。
娶媳不忙，嫁女宜速。
娶媳易，择婿难。
4．工作?学习
309. A work ill done must be done twice done.
一事做糟，两次重搞。
310. If you would have a thing well done, do it yourself.
想把事情做得好，就得亲自动手搞。
311. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
凡是值得做的事情，就值得做好。
312. Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.
按部就班，事情很快就做完。
313. In for a penny, in for a pound.
事情既已开头，就要坚持到底。
314. Never do things by halves.
做事切忌半途而废。
315. Finished labours are pleasant.
完成工作是一乐。
316. Work makes the workman.
勤工出巧匠。
317. The used key is always bright.
常用的钥匙常光亮。
318. Drawn wells are seldom dry.
常用的井不会干。
319. Put your shoulder to the wheel.
努力工作。
320. Work bears witness who does well.
只有工作才能证明谁干得好。
321. It is not work that kills, but worry.
工作不会伤身，伤身乃是忧虑。
322. They who cannot do as they would, must do as they can.
不能尽如人意，也应尽力而为。
323. Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee.
照大多数人那样干，人们会把你称赞。
324. The shortest answer is doing the thing.
最简短的回答就是“干”。
325. Better late than never.
迟做总比不做好。
326. Better master one than engage with ten.
样样通，不如一门精。
327. He that will not work shall not eat.
不劳者不得食。
328. No mill, no meal.
不磨面就没有面包吃。
329. No gains without pains.
330. No pains, no gains.
不劳则无获。
331. No song, no supper.
不劳动者不得食。
332. Many hands make quick work.
人多干活快。
333. Many hands make light work.
人多好干活。
334. Business is business.
公事公办。
335. Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
行动是知识之果。
336. Deliberate slowly, execute promptly.
漫漫酌量，快快行动。
337. It is right to put everything in its proper use.
凡物皆应恰当用。
338. It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
没有土壤，播种也是徒劳。
339. What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
随时可做之事，恰是没时间所做之事。
340. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只工作不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
341. He that doth most at once doth least.
贪多嚼不烂。
342. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
技术拙劣怨工具。
343. Diligence is the mother of success.
勤奋是成功之母。
344. Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
勤勉是好运之母。
345. Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋带来好运。
346. Industry is fortune’s right, and frugality her left.
勤奋是幸运的右手，节俭是幸运的左手。
347. Live and learn.
348. A [One] man is never too old to learn.
活到老，学到老。
349. It is never too old to learn.
为学不怕年高。
350. He that learns a trade [an art] has a purchase made.
学个好手艺，有钱买东西。
一招鲜，吃遍天。
351. He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
畏问之人耻于学。
352. He that nothing questions nothing learns.
353. He who questions nothing learns nothing.
一无所问者学不到东西。
子不问，无所学。
354. To ask well is to know much.
善问者博学。
355. By learning you will teaching; by teaching you will learn.
学然后可以教，教亦可以学。
教学相长。
356. He who teaches, learns.
357. Teaching others teaches yourself.
教人者，己亦学。
教学相长。
358. In doing we learn.
边干边学。
在实践中学习。
359. We learn not at school, but in life.
人生是在生活中学习，而非在学校中学习。
360. There is no royal road to learning.
为学之路无坦途。
361. There is no end to learning.
362. There is no satiety in study.
学无止境。
学海无涯。
363. What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave [tomb] .
364. What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave [tomb] .
365. Whoso learns young, forgets not when he is old.
幼时所学，至老不忘。
366. Learn young, learn fair.
为学趁年少，既学须学好。
367. The living man who does not learn is dark, dark like one walking in the night.
人活着若不学习，犹如黑夜中的行人。
368. It is good to learn at another man’s cost.
前车可鉴。
369. Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
他人愚行变己聪明。
370. Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
371. What is soon learnt is soon forgotten.
学得快，忘得快。
372. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
学而不思，犹如食而不化。
373. He who will not learn when he is young will regret it when he is old.
少不学习，老来后悔。
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
黑发不知勤学早，白发方悔读书迟。
374. A lazy youth, a lousy age.
少时懒惰老来苦。
5．事业?成功
375. Business is the salt of life.
事业是生命之盐。
376. Business before pleasure.
事业在先，享乐在后。
377. Business makes a man as well as tries him.
事业可以考验人，也可以造就人。
378. Do business, but be not a slave to it.
要做事，但不要成为事务的奴隶。
379. Business neglected is business lost.
忽视事务便是放弃事务。
380. Never think yourself above your business.
切勿眼高手低。
不要自视过高。
381. He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business.
自命大材小用，往往眼高手低。
382. Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
人人负责，结果无人负责。
383. Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
事业也许忧人，但懒惰害处更大。
384. A good beginning is half done.
385. The first blow is half the battle.
良好的开端，就是成功了一半。
386. He who wills success is half way to it.
决心要成功，便成功了一半。
387. Nothing succeeds like success.
一事成功，事事顺利。
388. Success belongs to the persevering.
成功属于坚持不懈的人。
389. The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
成功的秘诀是坚持不懈。
390. Push generally succeeds in business.
在事业上埋头苦干通常就会成功。
391. Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是通向成功之路的第一步。
392. Self-trust is the first secret of success.
自信是成功的首要秘诀。
393. Success is never blamed.
胜者为主。
只要成功，就不会遭人责备。
394. All roads lead to Rome.
条条大路通罗马。
395. Keeping is harder than winning.
成功不易，保持更难。
396. Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.
事成都来居功，事败无人关怀。
397. Success has many friends.
成功朋友多。
398. Not everyone can succeed.
并非每个人都可以成功。
399. Great hopes make great man.
远大的理想造就伟大的人。
400. Adversity leads to prosperity.
逆境通向成功路。
401. Successful crime is called virtue.
成功者的罪恶也被称作美德。
6．幸福?快乐
402. Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
每个人都是自身幸福的建筑师。
403. Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
幸福易寻难维持。
404. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
记得年轻时所做蠢事的人是幸福的。
405. It’s a poor [sad] heart that never rejoices.
再痛苦的心也会有快乐的时候
人人都有欢乐的时刻。
406. Laugh, and the world will laugh with you.
你如果乐观，世界也会陪你欢笑。
407. A blithe [happy] heart makes a blooming visage.
408. A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.
心中快乐，容光焕发。
人逢喜事精神爽。
409. The joy of the heart makes the face merry.
心中快乐，面带喜色。
人逢喜事精神爽。
410. A merry heart goes all the way.
心情愉快，办事顺畅。
411. Joy puts heart into a man.
人快乐时心情好。
人逢喜事精神爽。
412. Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.
与人同乐，更加快乐。
413. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
美好的事物永远是一种快乐。
414. Children and fools have merry lives.
孩子和傻瓜，生活乐哈哈。
415. Content is happiness.
知足常乐。
416. Follow pleasure and it will flee thee; flee pleasure and it will follow thee.
追求快乐，它逃避；逃避快乐，它跟随。
417. Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours.
快乐和忧愁是近邻。
418. Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure.
悲哀常常紧随快乐。
乐极生悲。
419. Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
快乐尾巴长有刺。
乐极生悲。
420. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
快乐犹如香水，你不可能洒向别人而自己不沾上几滴。
421. No pleasure without pain.
422. There is no pleasure without pain.
没有无痛苦的欢乐。
423. No joy without alloy [annoy].
424. There is no joy without alloy.
有乐就有悲。
425. Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
快乐与悲哀总是交替来。
426. It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
人与人相比，有悲又有喜。
427. He who talks much of his happiness summons grief.
多谈幸福的人会招致痛苦。
428. Short pleasure, long lament.
眼前片刻欢，日后长悲痛。
429. Stolen pleasures are sweet [sweetest].
偷欢最快乐。
求之不得的东西最好。
430. Stolen waters are sweet.
偷来之水特别甜。
偷欢最快乐。
431. Please one’s eye and plague one’s heart.
只图眼前快活，不顾事后烦恼。
7．事实?真理
432. Facts are stubborn (things).
事实是不可否认的。
433. One foot is better than two crutches.
一只脚胜过两条拐杖。
434. A bald head is soon shaven.
光脑袋，剃得快。
435. A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
瞎子不谢赠镜人。
436. A blind man cannot judge colours.
盲人不辨色。
437. He that never rode never fell.
不骑马不会落马。
438. The thread breaks where it is weakest.
线断常在最细处。
439. It is a long lane that has no turning.
路必有弯。
世上没有一条不转弯的路。
440. Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
袋子里装什么才能倒出什么。
无中不能生有。
441. A cracked bell can never sound well.
442. A cracked bell is never sound.
破钟无好音。
443. As we sow, so shall we reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
444. A tree is known by its fruit.
445. The tree is known by its [her] fruit.
观其果便知树。
观其行知其人。
446. Soon ripe, soon rotten.
早熟早烂。
早慧早夭。
447. He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
要把果仁吃，就得碎果壳。
448. He will shoot higher who shoots at the moon [sun] than he who aims at a tree.
瞄准月亮才能比瞄准树木射得高。
目标高才能射得高。
449. Between two stools one goes to the ground.
脚踏两只船，早晚要落水。
450. Cut you coat according to your cloth.
量布裁衣。
451. No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.
劣布难制美装。
452. No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
金铸的脚镣也没人爱戴。
453. Butter to butter is no relish.
黄油加黄油不成美味。
千篇一律的东西令人生厌。
454. You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
饼子吃下肚，当然不再有。
两者不可兼得。
455. Half a loaf is better than no bread.
半片面包总比没有好。
有胜于无。
456. There is no wheat without chaff.
没有不带壳的麦粒。
457. Something is better than nothing.
有总比没有强。
458. Everything is good for something.
万物皆有其用。
459. Nature abhors a vacuum.
自然界里无真空。
460. There is nothing permanent except change.
没有任何东西是一成不变的。
461. Two negatives make an affirmative.
否定之否定即为肯定。
462. Wonders are many, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
世上奇迹多，唯人最奇妙。
463. Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
蜜甜蜂螫人。
464. It takes two to make a quarrel.
吵架要有两个人。
465. Every man has his liking.
人各有好。
466. So many men, so many minds.
十人十条心。
467. Every shoe fits not every foot.
一鞋难合百人足。
468. Everything must have a beginning.
凡事皆有始。
469. Everything hath an end.
万物有始必有终。
470. The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
黎明之前最黑暗。
471. Every cloud has a silver lining.
黑暗之中总有一线光明。
祸中有福。
472. Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。
473. Tread on a worm and it will turn.
蚯蚓被踩也会动。
被逼过甚，最温顺者也会反抗。
474. No smoke without some fire.
475. There is no smoke without fire.
无火不生烟。
不风不起浪。
476. Every why has a wherefore.
凡事皆有因。
477. Most things have two handles.
多数事物都有两种解释。
478. There are two sides to every question.
每个问题都有两个方面。
479. No living man all things can.
世上没有万能者。
480. Fire and water have no mercy.
水火无情。
481. Pouring oil on the fire is no way to quench it.
加油不是灭火法。
482. Water afar quencheth not fire.
远水救不了近火。
483. Fire and water are [may be] good servants, but bad masters.
水火是忠仆，用之不慎成灾主。
484. When the well is full, it will run over.
井满则水溢。
485. The last drop makes the cup run over.
已满的杯子多加一滴就会溢出。
超过限度的微小事情往往酿成重大后果。
486. Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
瓶中之酒不解渴。
487. Shallow streams made most din.
溪浅水声喧。
满瓶不响，半瓶叮当。
488. Union is strength.
团结就是力量。
489. Truth will prevail [conquer].
真理必胜。
490. Truth fears no colours.
真理不怕任何反驳。
真理是驳不倒的。
491. Truth shines in the dark.
真理在黑暗中闪光。
492. Truth has no answer.
真理无可抗拒。
493. Truth is a lion.
真理是一头雄狮。
494. Nothing endures but truth.
唯有真理永存。
495. The truth is always green.
496. Truth never grows old.
真理之树常青。
497. Truth is the daughter of time.
真理是时间之女。
498. Sooner or later, the truth comes to light.
499. The truth will out.
真相迟早会大白。
真理迟早会被证明。
500. Truth lies [is] at the bottom of a well.
真理深藏井底。
真理难以探求。
501. Truth will out, even if buried in a golden coffin.
即使把真理装在金棺材里埋起来，它终究也会显露出来。
502. Wisdom is only found in truth.
唯真理中才有智慧。
503. Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes.
真理面目和善，但衣衫褴褛。
504. Truth needs no colours.
真理无需粉饰。
505. Truth’s best ornament is nakedness.
不加掩饰乃是真理的最好装饰。
506. Truth and roses have thorns about them.
真理和玫瑰，身上皆有刺。
507. There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
真理与谬误只有一步只差。
508. Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed.
真理也许会遭受非难，但绝不会遭受羞辱。
509. Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
恶意虽然会糟蹋真理，但无法消灭真理。
510. The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know.
人们最不愿倾听之事，往往是对其大有裨益之事。
511. Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
美即是真，真即是美。
8．书籍?知识
512. Books and friends should be few but good.
513. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
书籍如朋友，宜少须慎选。
514. Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
书籍乃累积智慧之不灭明灯。
515. A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.
好书如至友，永远不相负。
516. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
好书如挚友，友情永不渝。
517. There is no friend so faithful as a good book.
一本好书就是一位最忠实的朋友。
518. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
书是随身携带的花园。
519. A book is the same today as it was always and it will never change.
好书千载常如新。
好书永不过时。
520. A book that remains shut is but a block.
好书不去翻，犹如一木砖。
521. Old wood is best to burn, old book to read.
老柴好烧，老书宜读。
522. Judge not a book by its cover.
好书不凭封面判。
523. A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.
坏书因其不能改正错误而更坏。
524. In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
伟大思想代代有，载入史册永不朽。
525. A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.
好故事百听不厌。
526. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
当今真正的大学就是一批藏书。
527. Knowledge (itself) is power.
知识就是力量。
528. Knowledge starts with practice.
知识来源于实践。
实践出真知。
529. Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.
无实践的知识只能使人成为半个艺术家。
530. Knowledge is a Treasure, but Practice is the key to it.
知识是宝库，而实践则是开启这座宝库的钥匙。
531. Knowledge is no burden [burthen].
知识决非负担。
艺多不压身。
532. Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud.
知识使人谦虚，无知使人傲慢。
533. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
若要长知识，须从勤苦得。
534. Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.
知识只能循序渐进，不能跃进。
535. It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it.
知识的特点就在于真正渴求知识的人总能得到它。
536. Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
知识是恐惧的解毒剂。
知识可以消除恐惧。
537. A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
少量的常识抵得上大量的知识。
538. Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
学问使好人更好，坏人更坏。
539. Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit.
学问是苦根结出的甜果。
540. The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.
做学问的三个基本条件是：多观察，多吃苦、多研究。
541. Without learning, without eyes.
无学问犹如没有眼睛。
542. Doubt is the key of knowledge.
怀疑是打开知识宝库的钥匙。
543. Questioning is the door of knowledge.
疑问是通向知识之门。
544. He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.
一无所知的人对什么也不会怀疑。
无知即无疑。
545. A body without knowledge is like a house without a foundation.
人无知识犹如房屋没有地基。
546. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
547. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
浅学寡识是件危险的事情。
浅学误人。
548. Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
胸中知识胜于手中钱。
549. Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
知识胜于金钱。
550. Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
知识可羡，胜于财富。
551. Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
为求知识，在所不惜。
552. Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
过分劳心，使人谢顶。
知识太多老得快。
553. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
知识之于精神，犹如健康之于身体。
554. Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
没有知识的热情，犹如脱缰之马。
555. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
没有知识的热心，犹如有火而无光。
556. Science is organized knowledge.
科学是系统的知识。
557. Science has no enemy but the ignorant.
科学的敌人是愚昧无知。
558. Common sense is not common.
常识并不寻常。
559. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
想象比知识更重要。
560. Imagination will span the gap in our knowledge.
想象可弥补知识之不足。
561. A useful trade is a mine of gold.
有用的技艺是无价之宝。
562. Skill is no burden.
技艺决非负担。
艺多不压身。
563. An empty barrel makes more noise than a full one.
空桶比满桶发出的响声大。
一桶不响，半捅晃荡。
564. An empty bag cannot stand upright.
空袋不能直立。
没有知识武装，干什么都一事无成。
9．风俗?习惯
565. Custom is a second nature.
566. Custom is another nature.
习惯是第二天性。
567. Custom makes all the things easy.
风俗习惯使万事容易办。
形成习惯，事事好办。
568. Custom reconciles us to everything.
习惯使人安于一切。
569. Custom rules law.
风俗约束法律。
570. A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
坏习惯像饼子，碎了比保存起来好。
571. Custom without reason is but ancient error.
荒谬的风俗只不过是古老的错误而已。
572. What youth is used to, age remembers.
少年惯为事，老时长记起。
573. So many countries, so many customs.
574. Every country has its customs.
一国有一国的风俗。
575. Do as the Romans do.
576. Do in Rome as the Romans do.
577. Do in Rome as Rome does.
578. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
579. When you are at Rome, do as Rome does.
570. When you go to Rome, do as Rome does.
在罗马要和罗马人一样行事。
入国问禁，入乡随俗。
571. Other times, other manners.
时代不同，风俗有异。
俗随时变。
572. Habit is (a) second nature.
573. Use is (a) second nature.
习惯是人的第二天性。
习惯成自然。
574. Once a use, for ever a custom.
习惯成自然。
575. Habit cures habit.
新习惯改变旧习惯。
576. Every man has his own habit.
每个人都有自己的习惯。
577. Habit is a cable: we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
习惯为缆绳，日编一缕，终不了断。
578. You cannot make a crab walk straight.
谁也不能让螃蟹直着走路。
579. Old habits die hard.
陈规陋习难消除。
580. Old use and wont legs about the fire.
旧习俗总是围着火炉转。
旧习难改。
581. Once is no custom.
偶尔一次不能算数。
582. Once is no rule.
一次不成例。
10．言语?行动
583. He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
管不住嘴巴讲不好话。
越是不会讲话的人越爱讲。
584. Wealth of words is not eloquence.
多言算不上雄辩。
585. He that talks much, errs much.
说得越多，错得越多。
586. Few words, many deeds.
少说话，多做事。
587. Actions speak louder than words.
行动比言语更响亮。
百说不如一干。
588. Better to do well than to say well.
589. It is better to do well than to say well.
590. Doing is better than saying.
说得好不如做得好。
591. Not to say well, but to do well.
不要说得好，而要做得好。
说得中听不如做得出色。
592. Say well is good, but do well is better.
说得漂亮固然不错，但做得好才更好。
593. Deeds, not words.
要行动，不要空谈。
594. Don’t make any noise while you work, but use your brain.
干活不要吵，而要用头脑。
595. Easier said than done.
说起来容易，做起来难。
596. From words to deeds is a great space.
言行之间距离大。
597. There is great difference between word and deed.
言语和行动很不相同。
言行之间距离大。
598. First think, and then speak.
先思而后言。
599. Speak without thinking is shooting without aiming.
600. Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.
言而无思，无的放矢。
601. Least said, soonest mended.
602. Little said is soon amended.
603. Little said, soonest mended.
话说越少，弥补越快。
少说为妙。
604. The least said the better.
少说为妙。
605. Few words are best.
话少为佳。
606. Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
敏于听而慎于言。
607. Hear much, speak little.
多听少说。
608. It is better to play with the ears than the tongue.
多用耳，少用口。
多听少说。
609. Hear twice before you speak once.
听两次，说一次。
多听少说。
610. Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
闭上嘴巴，竖起耳朵。
多听少讲。
611. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
闭上嘴巴，睁开眼睛。
多看少说。
612. Look before you leap.
慎思而后行。
613. Second thoughts are best.
三思而后行。
614. He is a wise man who speaks little.
聪明的人言语少。
615. He knows most who [that] speaks least.
616. Who knows most, says [speaks] least.
懂得最多的人说得最少。
617. A wise head makes a close mouth.
头脑灵，嘴巴紧。
618. A man of sense talks little and listens much.
有理智的人，说得少听得多。
619. From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance.
多听出智慧，多说要后悔。
620. Words are the wise man’s counters and the fool’s money.
聪明人把言语做筹码，愚蠢人把言语当真钱。
聪明人把言语作手段，愚蠢人把言语作目的。
621. Let not your tongue cut your throat.
莫让舌头砍了脖子。
舌是斩身刀。
祸从口出。
622. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
能说者未必能行。
623. Great boast, small roast.
624. Great boasters [talkers], little doers.
625. Great braggers, little doers.
夸夸其谈者，实际行动少。
言语的巨人，行动的矮子。
626. Every brave man is a man of his word.
勇敢之人不食言。
君子一言，驷马难追。
627. A word spoken is past recalling.
628. A word spoken cannot be recalled.
629. The words once spoken can never be recalled.
一言既出，驷马难追。
630. A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled.
说出口的话和扔出的石头都收不回来。
一言既出，驷马难追。
631. A word spoken is an arrow let fly.
君子一言，如箭离弦。
一言既出，驷马难追。
632. Many a true word is spoken in jest.
633. There is many a true word spoken in jest.
笑语之中吐真言。
634. In vino veritas.
635. In wine there is truth.
酒后吐真言。
636. What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
637. As a man’s heart is, so does he speak.
心里想什么，嘴上就说什么。
言为心声。
638. One’s words reflect one’s thinking.
嘴上讲的反映心里想的。
言为心声。
639. Speech is the index of the mind.
言为心声。
640. Speech is the picture of the mind.
言语是心灵的写照。
言为心声。
641. Speech shows what a man is.
言语说明人品。
听其言，知其人。
642. The head is recognized by the tongue.
听其言，知其思。
言为心声。
643. When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
心中着了火，口中冒火星。
心里有什么，嘴里就说什么。
644. Words are the voice of the heart.
言为心声。
645. Your conversation is the mirror of your thoughts.
言语是心灵的镜子。
心里怎么想，嘴上怎么说。
言为心声。
646. A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
易于许诺之人，也易于忘记。
647. A man that breaks his words, bids others to be false to him.
不守信用之人，无异于叫别人对他失信。
648. Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
慢许诺快兑现。
649. Words are but wind.
说话只算是刮风。
话是空的。
650. Fair words butter no parsnips.
美言无补实际。
651. Talking mends no holes.
空谈于事无补。
652. Words pay no debts.
空话不能抵债。
空谈无济于事。
653. Facts speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。
654. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
行动是果，言语是叶。
655. Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
与其言语不中肯，不如一句也不吭。
656. It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently.
话说得多是一回事，说得中肯是另一回事。
657. Saying and doing are two things.
说和做是两回事。
658. Saying is one thing and doing another.
说是一回事，做是另一回事。
659. To say is one thing; to do is quite another.
说是一回事，做完全是另一回事。
660. A word in season is most precious.
及时一言最可贵。
661. A word in time is worth two afterwards.
及时一句抵得上事后两句。
662. Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
无益的雄辩犹如柏树，虽然树干高大却不结果。
663. Bare words, no bargain.
空谈难以成交易。
664. Fair words fill not the belly.
665. Fair words will not fill the belly.
666. The belly is not filled with fair words.
甜言美语填不饱肚皮。
甜言美语无济于事。
667. Fair words will not make the pot play.
甜言美语难使壶水开。
甜言美语无济于事。
668. Soft words are hard arguments.
婉言更具说服力。
669. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
空谈不如实践。
布丁好坏，一偿便知。
670. Talk much, and err much.
言多必失。
671. A close mouth catches no flies.
672. Into a shut mouth flies fly not.
紧闭嘴唇，苍蝇难进。
口风紧，不招祸。
673. The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
674. Great talkers are little doers.
夸夸其谈之人总是行动最少之人。
675. A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.
舌头长是手短的标志。
说话多必然做得少。
676. All truth is not always to be told.
677. All truth is not to be told at all times.
678. All truths are not (always) to be told.
并不是在任何情况下都可以说真话的。
见人只说三分话，不可全抛一片心。
679. Many a one says well that thinks ill.
不少人是口是心非。
680. A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
光有空谈而无行动之人，犹如杂草丛生的果园。
681. Our own actions are our security, not others’ judgement.
我们的行为是自己为人的明证，不需要别人评判。
682. A man is not good or bad for one action.
一次行为难以判断一个人的好坏。
683. A kind word is never lost.
善言长存。
好话一句三冬暖。
684. A soft answer turns [turneth] away wrath.
温和的回答可以平息怒气。
685. People are more convinced by words than by blows.
言语比棍棒更能说服人。
686. A good tongue is a good weapon.
口齿伶俐，是件利器。
687. The tongue is not made of steel, yet it cuts.
舌头不是钢，一动把人伤。
688. Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
言语能伤人，有时胜刀剑。
689. A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart.
言语虽非箭，却能刺人心。
恶言恶语伤人心。
690. Many words cut [hurt] more than swords.
众口伤人，胜似刀剑。
691. Words cut [hurt] more than swords.
言语伤人胜利剑。
692. The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none.
舌上无骨，却可碎骨。
人言可畏。
693. The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
舌头非钢，却能把人伤。
694. Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools.
695. Fair words and foul deeds cheat wise men as well as fools.
美言与恶行同样会欺骗聪明人和愚人。
696. Do as you would be done by.
你愿别人怎样对待你，你就应该怎样对待别人。
己所不欲，勿施于人。
697. Fine words dress ill deeds.
华丽的言词会装饰恶劣的行为。
698. No word can be the disguise of base intentions.
言词掩盖不了卑鄙的意图。
699. Ill deeds cannot honour.
恶行败坏名声。
11．法律?公正
700. New lords [kings], new laws.
新君立新法。
701. Many lords, many laws.
君王多，法律多。
头头多，规矩多。
702. Many lords, many laws; much law, little justice.
君王多，法律多；法律多，公道少。
703. Laws go as kings like.
法随王所欲。
朕即法律。
704. What the king wills, that the law wills.
王之所欲，法之所愿。
法随王所欲。
705. The law is not the same at morning and at night.
朝令夕改。
706. Justice has a long arm
707. Justice has long arms.
708. God’s mill grinds slow but sure.
709. Heaven’s vengeance is slow but sure.
710. The mills of God grind slowly.
711. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
712. The greater the crime, the higher the gallows.
罪恶越大，绞刑架越高。
罪恶越大，治罪越重。
713. Law makers should not be law breakers.
立法者不应违法。
714. Ignorance of the law excuses no man [one].
715. Ignorance of the law is no excuse of breaking it.
不懂法不能成为任何人犯法的借口。
716. Wrong laws make short governance.
不健全的法律统治时间不会长。
717. Where drums beat, laws are silent.
战鼓一响，法律无声。
718. Laws catch flies and let hornets go free.
法网捕苍蝇，黄蜂由它去。
719. Law are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
法律如蛛网，捉得小苍蝇，黄蜂破网出。
720. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
大贼脱身去，小贼被吊死。
721. One law for the rich, and another for the poor.
对富人一套法律，对穷人却另一套法律。
722. Law is a bottomless pit.
法律是无底的深渊。
723. Every law has a loophole.
法律皆有漏洞。
724. Hard cases make bad law.
棘手的案件使法律无能无力。
725. An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men.
法官应公正，重法不重人。
726. That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.
法官动感情，审判难公正。
727. A good lawyer, an evil neighbour.
好律师不是好邻居。
728. An old physician, and a young lawyer.
医生年老的好，律师年轻的好。
729. Force can never destroy right.
暴力决不能摧毁正义。
730. Justice must be done even if the sky falls.
天塌下来也得主持正义。
12．强权?战争
731. Might is right.
强权即公理。
732. Might overcomes right.
强权也会战胜公理。
733. The great fish eat up the small.
734. Big fish eat little fish.
大鱼吃小鱼。
弱肉强食。
735. The longest pole knocks the most persimmons.
最长的杆子打的柿子最多。
强者常胜。
736. Providence is always on the side of the big [strongest] battalions.
上帝总是站在强者一边。
737. Kings have long arms [hands].
国王手臂及四海。
百姓强不过官家。
738. It is hard to sit in Rome and strive against the Pope.
739. It is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope.
身在罗马城，难与教皇争。
胳膊扭不过大腿。
740. It is the man behind the gun that tells.
手中握枪才有说话权。
741. War is death’s feast.
战争是死亡的宴席。
742. War is the sport of kings.
战争是帝王们的游戏。
743. War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.
战争造成盗贼，和平将其吊死。
744. When war begins, then hell openeth.
战争一开始，地狱便打开。
745. When guns speak it is too late to argue.
枪炮发言时，争辩已太迟。
746. Peace with sword in hand, ’Tis safest making.
和平时期手执剑，这样做来最保险。
有备无患。
747. If you want peace, prepare for war.
748. If you wish for peace, be prepared for war.
欲求和平，必先备战。
749. In peace prepare for war.
和平时期应备战。
750. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
备战是维护和平最有效的手段之一。
751. Weapons bode [breed] peace.
武装预兆和平。
752. Of all war(s), peace is the end.
一切战争终将以和平告终。
753. Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged.
两国相争，不斩来使。
754. When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war.
755. When Greeks joined Greeks then was the tug of war.
两雄相遇，其斗必烈。
756. Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
服从是军人的天职。
13．善良?美德
757. To be virtuous is to do good .
行善就是积德。
758. Never be weary of well doing.
不要厌倦行善。
759. One good turn deserves another.
善行应有善报。
760. He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.
成功属于以德报怨之人。
761. We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favour received.
我有德于人不应记，人有德于我不可忘。
762. If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be true.
若有人称赞，自问细掂量。
763. Virtue is the only true nobility.
万事不如美德高。
764. Virtue is her [its] own reward.
765. Virtue is to herself the best reward.
美德本身就是对美德的最好报偿。
施恩不图报。
766. Virtue is a jewel of great price.
767. Virtue is beyond price.
美德乃无价之宝。
768. Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
美德远胜美貌。
769. Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
美德如宝石，朴素它最美。
770. Virtue never grows old.
美德永不过时。
771. Virtue and courtesy go hand in hand.
美德与礼貌携手并行。
有德便有礼貌。
772. Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter.
美德和幸福是母女关系。
美德是幸福之源。
773. He that soweth virtue shall reap fame.
播种美德，收获美名。
774. Glory is the shadow of virtue.
荣誉乃美德的影子。
775. The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice.
迈向美德的第一步是不作恶。
776. There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not.
贫穷会毁坏美德。
777. Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
唯利是图者，心中无美德。
14．勇敢?坚忍
778. Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
779. The best hearts are always the bravest.
行为勇敢的人心地总是善良的。
780. No way is impossible to courage.
勇者无畏途。
781. Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
只要人肯试，世上无难事。
782. The path to glory is always rugged.
荣誉之路多坎坷。
783. A great ship asks deep waters.
大船要在深水行。
英雄要有用武之地。
784. The fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong man.
烈火试真金，逆境炼勇士。
785. As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man.
试金之石可试金，金钱黄金能试人。
786. The good seaman is known in bad weather.
恶劣的天气才能识得好海员。
787. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
平静的大海造就不出熟练的水手。
788. Rewards allure men to brave danger.
奖赏勉励人勇敢面对危险。
重赏之下必有勇夫。
789. The valiant never tastes of death but once.
勇士一生只有一回死。
790. He who lives near the woods is not frightened by owls.
家住林边梢，猫头鹰吓不倒。
791. Faint heart never won fair lady.
胆怯难赢美女心。
792. None but the brave deserves the fair.
英雄方可配美人。
793. You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest
friend.
如果你是懦夫，你就是自己最大的敌人；但如果你是勇者，你就是自己最好的朋友。
794. A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword.
勇士的神色胜过懦夫的刀剑。
795. Scanderbeg’s sword must have Scanderbeg’s arm.
宝剑须由壮士擎。
796. A brave retreat is a brave exploit.
勇退即勇迹。
797. Nothing venture, nothing have [gain, win].
798. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
799. Nought venture, nought have [gain, win].
800. If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
801. He who risks nothing, gains nothing.
不冒险就无所得。
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
802. If you don’t enter a tiger’s den, you can’t get his cubs.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
803. Little strokes fell great oaks.
804. Constant dropping wears the stone.
805. Constant dropping wears away a stone.
滴水不绝可穿石。
只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。
806. With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.
有了时间和忍耐，桑叶也能变织锦。
只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。
807. Perseverance is the only road to success.
不屈不挠是取得成功的唯一道路。
808. Rome was not built in a day.
罗马并非一日建成。
809. Step by step the ladder is ascended.
梯子需要逐级登。
810. Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
失败十九次，到第二十次成功，这就叫坚持。
811. He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
今天跌倒的人，明天也许就会重新站起来。
812. Patience is a virtue.
忍耐是一种美德。
813. Patience and application will carry us through.
忍耐与努力会使人度过难关。
814. Patience is the plaster of all sores.
忍耐是一切痛苦的止痛膏。
815. Bear with evil and expect good.
忍受不幸，期盼好运。
坏事要忍，好事要等。
816. He bears misery best who hides it most.
最能掩盖自己痛苦的人是最善于忍受痛苦的人。
817. Patient men win the day.
能忍者必胜。
818. He that can have patience, can have what he will.
能忍方能遂愿。
819. He that can stay obtains.
能等待方有所获。
820. He that endures is not overcome.
能忍者不可克。
忍者常胜。
821. Let patience grow in your garden always.
让忍耐之花在你的花园里永远开放。
822. Patience is a flower that grows not in every one’s garden.
忍耐是鲜花，但每个人的花园里并非都有它。
823. All things will come round to him who will but wait.
824. Everything comes to him who waits.
只要肯等待，一切都会来。
持之以恒，必将有成。
825. Long looked for comes at last.
久久寻找，终会找到。
826. Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
幸运女神常常嘉奖有耐心等待她的人们。
827. It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
忍受别人的不幸容易。
刺不挂，肉不痛。
15．诚实?谦逊
828. Honesty is the best policy.
诚实为上策。
829. Knavery may serve, but honesty is best.
欺诈也许有用，但诚实却是上策。
830. An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.
诚实人的话就是他的保证书。
831. Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill pennyworth.
诚实或许代价昂贵，但决不会分文不值。
高价买诚实，永远也值得。
832. Poor but honest.
虽贫穷，要诚实。
833. The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar.
正当得到的一分钱胜于偷来的一元钱。
834. One penny with right is better than a thousand without right.
合法所得的一便士，胜于非法所得的一千便士。
835. The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound.
不正当所得的便士会使正当得来的英镑也受玷污。
836. An honest look covereth many faults.
诚实的外表容易掩盖诸多缺点。
837. Humility is the beginning of wisdom.
智慧来源于谦逊。
838. The more noble the more humble.
越高贵，越应谦逊。
839. Know thyself [yourself].
人应自知。
人贵有自知之明。
840. The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
人生最难是自知。
人贵有自知之明。
841. No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself.
人并不因为他自知很差就很差。
842. Humility often gains more than pride.
谦逊常比傲慢获益更多。
843. It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
叱责傲慢并非是谦逊的标志。
16．节约?俭省
844. Saving is getting.
节约等于增加收入。
845. From saving comes having.
俭省才会聚财。
846. Better spare at brim than at bottom.
宁愿缸满时节约，不愿见底时俭省。
847. Better spare to have of thine own, than ask of other man.
求人不如节俭。
848. The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE.
节俭是致富的秘诀。
849. A penny saved is a penny gained.
省钱等于挣钱。
850. Thrift is a great revenue.
851. Thrift is good revenue.
节省就是一笔大收入。
852. Thrift is the philosopher’s stone.
节俭是块点金石。
节俭是个聚宝盆。
853. Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
金钱积少便成多。
854. Penny and penny, laid up, will be many.
便士加便士，积成大数目。
积少成多。
855. Put two halfpennies [pennies] in a purse, and they will draw together.
小钱放口袋，大钱积起来。
856. Of saving, comes having.
富有来自节俭。
857. Better spared than ill spent.
乱花钱不如少花钱。
858. Frugality is an estate alone.
节俭本身就是一宗财产。
859. Economy is itself a great income.
860. Sparing is a great revenue.
节约本身便是一笔可观的收入。
861. Economy is the easy chair of old age.
节约是老年的安乐椅。
生活节俭，安度晚年。
862. Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.
节俭防老。
863. Spare when you’re young, and spend when you’re old.
少时俭省老来花。
864. Many a little makes a mickle.
865. Many a pickle makes a muckle.
866. Every little makes (a mickle).
积少成多。
集腋成裘。
867. Small gains bring great wealth.
积小利，成巨富。
868. Economy the poor man’s mints; extravagance the rich man’s pitfall.
俭省是穷人的铸币场；挥霍是富人的陷人坑。
869. Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.
量入为出。
870. Live within your means and save for a rainy day.
量入为出，未雨绸缪。
871. Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend.
可节约时不乱花，该花钱时不吝啬。
872. Save money against a rainy day.
平时存钱，以防未然。
873. He that saves his dinner will have the more for his supper.
中餐节省，晚餐有余。
874. Waste not, want not.
不浪费，就不会缺乏。
俭以防匮。
875. He who will not keep a penny shall never have money.
有钱就花的人决不会有积蓄。
876. He that regards not a penny, will lavish a pound.
小钱不知省，大钱将滥花。
877. Frugality when all is spent comes too late.
878. It is too late to husband [spare] when all is spent.
花光才节俭，为时已太晚。
879. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
借贷使人忘记节约。
880. Always taking out the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom.
取粮不储粮，桶底粮也光。
坐吃山空。
17．聪明?才智
881. No man is born wise.
聪明非天生。
882. He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.
不自作聪明便是最大的聪明。
883. Penny wise and pound foolish.
小事聪明，大事糊涂。
884. He is wise that knows when he’s well enough.
知足之人方为智者。
885. He is the wise man who is the honest man.
诚实之人乃明智之人。
886. He is wise that is ware in time.
聪明人小心谨慎。
887. Pen and ink is wit’s plough.
笔墨是才智之犁。
888. A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
聪明人会随机应变。
889. Every wise man dreadeth his enemy.
聪明人对敌人远而避之。
890. The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.
聪明之手勿做愚蠢之口所言之事。
891. A wise man hears one word and understand two.
聪明的人听一知二。
892. A wise man is never less alone than (he is) alone.
智者孤独如独处。
893. He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not.
愚蠢人不会发怒，聪明人不愿发怒。
894. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
895. Wise men change their minds; fools never do.
聪明的人改变主意，愚蠢的人固执己见。
896. Fools look to tomorrow, and wise men use tonight.
蠢人指望明天，智者利用今晚。
897. Fools learn nothing from wise men; but wise men learn much from fools.
聪明人从愚人那里学到颇多，而愚人则从聪明人那里一无所获。
898. Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes; fools by their own.
聪明人从别人的错误中吸取教训，愚蠢人从自己的错误中吸取教训。
899. A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks.
聪明人想了才说，愚蠢人想着就说。
900. Wise men love truth, whereas fools shut it.
聪明的人热爱真理，愚蠢的人逃避真理。
901. Wise men have their mouth in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth.
聪明人嘴在心里，愚蠢人心在嘴里。
902. Wise men are silent; fools talk.
聪明的人寡言，愚蠢的人话多。
903. Wise men become wiser as they grow older, ignorant men more ignorant.
聪明的人越老越聪明，愚蠢的人越老越愚蠢。
904. The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.
聪明人自认一无所知，愚蠢人自视无所不知。
905. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise.
环境是弱者的统治者，却是智者的工具。
906. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
宁作聪明的傻子，不作愚蠢的聪明人。
907. He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs.
有足够才智处理自己事务者才是聪明之人。
908. A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
聪明的人不贪恋身外之物。
909. A word is enough to the wise.
910. Few words to the wise suffice.
911. Half a tale [word] is enough for a wise man.
912. To a wise man one word is enough.
对智者一言已足。
913. Good wits jump (together).
914. Great minds think alike.
智者所见略同。
英雄所见略同。
915. Four eyes see more than two.
两人总比一人看得全面。
916. Many [Two] heads are better than one.
三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮。
917. The wise man is always a good listener.
聪明的人善听他人之言。
918. It is a good workman that never blunders.
智者千虑，必有一失。
919. Great men are not always wise.
伟人并非永远聪明。
920. No man is wise at all times.
921. No one wise at all times.
世上无人永远聪明。
聪明一世，糊涂一时。
智者千虑，必有一失。
922. It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后诸葛亮容易当。
923. Much thinking yields wisdom.
多思出智慧。
924. Wits are wealth.
智慧就是财富。
925. Multitude of years should teach wisdom.
岁月教人增长智慧。
926. Years bring wisdom.
岁月使人增长智慧。
927. Bought wit is dear.
付出代价的智慧最珍贵。
928. Wit bought is better than wit taught.
付出代价的智慧胜于他人传授的智慧。
929. A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
口若悬河并不能证明真有才智。
930. Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.
缺乏学识的机智，犹如没有果实的树。
931. That’s good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.
最后聪明才是真聪明。
18．名誉?信任
932. Fame is a magnifying glass.
名誉是放大镜。
933. Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off.
名誉像河流，源头虽狭窄，越远越宽阔。
934. He that desires honour is not worthy of honour.
一心想得到荣誉的人不值得给予荣誉。
935. A good fame is better than a good face.
936. Good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜美貌。
937. A good name is better than a golden girdle.
938. A good name is better than gold.
939. Good name is gold worth.
美名胜金玉。
940. A good name is better than (great) riches.
美名胜钱财。
941. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
宁择美名，不选财富。
942. A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
良好的名声在黑暗中也能闪烁发光。
943. A good name is easier [soon] lost (than won).
美名易失（难得）。
944. Take honour from me and my life is done.
失去了名誉，也就失去了生命。
945. Honour and profit lie not in one sack.
荣誉和私利，决不在一起。
946. Honour to whom honour is due.
荣誉属于应得之人。
947. It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy.
宁可光荣死，不愿羞辱生。
948. Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
成功地摆脱逆境是无上的光荣。
949. Your father’s honour is to you but a second-hand honour.
对你来说，父亲的荣誉仅是间接的荣誉。
950. Beware of him who regards not his reputation.
要谨防不尊重名誉之人。
951. Honours change manners.
荣誉会改变人。
952. Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.
无功得名是常事，无过失名非少见。
953. A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about.
美名不出门，恶名传千里。
954. Vanity is the food of fools.
虚荣是傻瓜的食粮。
955. Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
信任是一种生长缓慢的植物。
956. Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.
信任别人之前要先了解。
957. If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die.
未经考验就信任，不到瞑目便后悔。
958. It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
对一切人都信任和对所有人都不信任，二者都不可取。
959. Be just to all, but trust not all.
要公正对待一切人，但不要对所有的人都信任。
960. Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
细线挂重物，终究靠不住。
961. Never trust to fine words.
决不要轻信花言巧语。
962. Never trust another what you should do yourself.
自己该做的事，决不要委托别人代做。
963. Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
自信乃英雄本色。
964. Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
唯有相信自己，他人才不背叛你。
19．金钱?财富
965. Money begets money.
966. Money breeds money.
967. Money draws money.
968. Money gets money.
969. Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with.
有钱就能赚钱。
钱能生钱。
970. Money makes the mare (to) go.
971. Money can buy the devil himself.
972. Money can move even the gods.
有钱能使鬼推磨。
金钱万能。
973. Money is the key that opens all doors.
金钱是打开一切门户之钥匙。
974. A golden key can open any door.
975. A golden key opens every door.
金钥匙能打开任何一道门。
金钱万能。
有钱能使鬼推磨。
976. All things are obedient to money.
金钱主宰万物。
977. Who holds the purse rules the house.
有钱就有势。
978. Money will do anything.
有钱可办一切事。
979. Money talks.
金钱最有发言权。
钱能通神。
980. Money makes a man free everywhere.
手中有钱，到处自由。
有钱路路通。
981. Money makes a man welcome everywhere.
982. Money recommends a man everywhere.
有钱到处受欢迎。
983. Before gold, even kings take off their hats.
在黄金面前，国王也行礼。
984. A rich man’s joke is always funny.
富人的玩笑最有趣。
985. The rich never want for kindred.
富人不缺亲戚。
986. Wealth makes worship.
财富能使人拜倒。
987. A heavy purse makes a light heart.
袋里有钱，心里不慌。
988. Wealth is the test of a man’s character.
金钱试人心。
989. Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.
财富不属于拥有它的人，而属于享用它的人。
990. A light purse makes a heavy heart.
钱袋轻，心事重。
为人无钱心事重。
991. Wealth is best known by want.
缺钱方知钱珍贵。
992. Beauty is potent, but money is more potent.
美貌固有力，金钱力更大。
993. Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for
money.
相信金钱万能的人，常常会一切为了金钱。
994. Avarice increases with wealth.
越有钱，越贪钱。
995. Money has no smell.
金钱无人味。
996. The money the miser boards will do him no good.
守财奴敛财，对己毫无好处。
997. The chief aim of man is not to get money.
人的主要目的并非为了挣钱。
998. Gold will not buy anything.
金钱并非可以买到一切。
999. Money isn’t everything.
金钱并非就是一切。
金钱并非万能。
1000. Money could not buy happiness.
金钱买不到幸福。
1001. Riches do not always bring happiness.
财富并不总是带来幸福。
1002. A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
身无分文过市快。
1003. All is not gold that glitters.
闪闪发光物，未必尽黄金。
1004. Money does not grow on trees.
金钱并非长在树上。
1005. Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose.
辛苦挣得，谨慎保存，唯恐失掉。
1006. Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.
财富得之辛苦，存之谨慎，失之悲切。
1007. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
智力投资决不会白花。
1008. The wealth of the mind is the only (true) wealth.
精神上的富有才是真正的富有。
1009. Money is the root of evil.
1010. Riches are the root of all evil.
金钱是罪恶之源。
1011. Money is the sinews of war.
金钱是战争的命脉。
1012. Money is a good servant, but a bad master.
金钱是忠仆，用之不当成恶主。
1013. Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
财富要么侍奉主人，要么支配主人。
1014. Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.
财富侍奉智者，但却指挥傻瓜。
1015. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience and truth may be drowned.
金钱之海深无底，淹没荣誉、良心和真理。
1016. Muck and money go together.
金钱与污秽同在。
富者不洁，洁者不富。
1017. Riches and virtue do not often keep each other company.
财富和美德，常常不相伴。
富者无德，有德者不富。
1018. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滚石不粘青苔。
转业不积财。
1019. It is easier to get money than to keep it.
挣钱容易攒钱难。
生财容易守财难。
1020. Wealth is easier gained than guided.
发财容易理财难。
创业容易守业难。
1021. Little wealth, little care.
财富少，烦恼少。
1022. Riches bring care and fear.
财富带来忧虑和恐惧。
1023. What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy?
如果财富带来忧郁，有它又有何用？
1024. Riches have wings.
钱财易散。
1025. Easy come, easy go.
钱财来得快，去得也快。
1026. Money is round, and rolls away.
金钱圆溜溜，一来就滚走。
1027. Money is wise, it knows its way.
金钱聪明，知道路径。
金钱一到手，马上就跑走。
1028. Your money burns (a hole) in your pocket.
钱烧口袋漏，一有就不留。
1029. Ill gotten [got] ill spent.
1030. Ill-gotten, ill spent.
来得邪恶，用得不正。
1031. Ill-gotten gains [goods] never prosper.
1032. Ill gotten money is soon spent.
不义之财挥霍得快。
1033. Ill-gotten wealth never thrive.
不义之财永远不会发家。
1034. When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind.
借钱给人是朋友，讨帐要钱成仇人。
20．生活?健康
1035. Life is sweet.
生活是可爱的。
1036. There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world’s trade.
要想明白事理，须作长期学徒。
1037. The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
世界恰似一把梯，有人上去有人下。
1038. Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.
眼前发生许多事，有些我们不知觉。
1039. Life is not all beer and skittles.
生活并非就是吃喝玩乐。
1040. He that will thrive must rise at five.
五点起床，百业兴旺。
1041. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起，使人健康、富有和聪明。
1042. Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
随羊羔就寝，与云雀同起。
1043. Who makes everything right must rise early.
要把事事全干好，就得清晨起得早。
1044. He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work.
起床不早，一天工作干不好。
1045. He that goes to bed thirsty rise healthy.
忍渴上床，起身健康。
1046. Cover your head by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can.
白天戴帽可随意，晚上戴帽是必须。
1047. After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.
正餐之后，休息片刻；晚餐之后，步行一哩。
1048. When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
腹饱思睡眠。
1049. Often and little eating makes a man fat.
多餐少吃，使人壮硕。
1050. Enough is as good as a feast.
饱食犹如赴宴。
1051. Don’t throw away the apple because of the core.
勿因噎废食。
1052. A light heart lives long.
心胸开朗，使人长寿。
1053. He lives long that lives well.
活得好就是活得长。
生活有价值就是长寿。
1054. A happy heart makes a blooming visage.
心中快乐，容光焕发。
1055. Where there is life, there is hope.
生命不息，希望长在。
1057. Art is long, life is short.
艺术恒久，生命短暂。
1058. A little labour, much health.
适量的劳动可以大大地增进健康。
1059. Health is happiness.
1060. Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
健康就是幸福。
1061. The ground-work of all happiness is health.
身体健康是一切幸福的基础。
1062. The first wealth is health.
1063. There is no wealth above the wealth of health.
1064. There is no greater riches than health.
健康是最大的财富。
1065. Health is better than wealth.
1066. Good health is above wealth.
1067. Health surprises riches.
健康胜于财富。
1068. Health is a jewel [treasure].
1069. Health is great riches.
健康犹如珠宝。
1070. A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold.
健康的身体比金冕更有价值。
1071. Health and strength is above all gold.
健康与强身远比黄金贵。
1072. Wealth is nothing without health.
没有健康，财富毫无意义。
1073. He who hath good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing.
健康葆青春，无债即富有。
1074. A sound mind in a sound body.
1075. A healthy mind is in a healthy body.
有健康的身体，就有健康的思想。
1076. The healthful man can give counsel to the sick.
健康者可以对病人提出忠告。
1077. Study sickness while you are well.
无病应思有病时。
1078. Health is not valued till sickness comes.
不到病时不知健康的宝贵。
1079. People do not the blessing of health till they lose it.
失去健康，方知健康是福。
1080. In sickness health is known.
病中方知健康宝贵。
1081. Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
有病感觉到，健康不知晓。
1082. By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
与疾病相比，才显得健康的可爱。
1083. Life is lifeless without health.
没有健康生活就没有意义。
1084. Without health life is no life.
失去健康，生活就不成其为生活。
没有健康生活就没有意义。
1085. Health does not consist with intemperance.
健康与纵欲难相容。
21．疾病?医治
1086. Diseases are the price of ill pleasures.
疾病是纵欲的代价。
1087. Sickness shows us what we are.
疾病使人显本相。
1088. Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.
恶病要用猛药医。
1089. A disease known is half cured.
弄清病情，病除一半。
1090. Lack of work brings a thousand diseases.
缺乏劳动，便生百病。
1091. Agues come on horseback but go away on foot.
1092. Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot.
病来如墙倒，病去如抽丝。
1093. Diseases enter by the mouth.
病从口入。
1094. Many dishes, many diseases.
食得多，疾病多。
1095. The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
节食，静心和愉快是却病延年之良方。
1096. Feed sparingly [by measure] and defy the physician.
饮食有节，医生绝迹。
1097. Temperance is the best physic.
节欲是最好的药品。
1098. Fasting is the best medicine.
节食是良药。
1099. Diet cures more than doctors [pills].
食疗胜于医疗。
1100. Digging your grave with your own teeth.
狂饮暴食自掘坟墓。
1101. A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye, a lion’s, and a lady’s hand.
好医生必须具有鹰眼、狮心和女人手。
1102. He who never was sick dies the first (fit).
1103. He who was never sick dies the first fit.
从来不病，一病要命。
小病不生，一病致命。
1104. What can’t be cured must be endured.
不治之症，只得忍受。
1105. Hide nothing from thy physician.
不要讳疾忌医。
1106. Prevention is better than cure.
预防胜于治疗。
1107. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
一份预防胜似十份治疗。
1108. A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口。
1109. Bitter pills may have wholesome effort.
良药苦口利于病。
1110. Medicines are not meant to live on.
不可指望靠吃药生活。
1111. Feed a cold and starve a fever.
伤风宜吃，发热宜饿。
1112. Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.
心灵上的疾病比身体上的疾病更危险。
1113. No herb will cure love.
相思病无药可治。
22．生老?死别
1114. Eat to live, but not live to eat.
人吃饭是为了活着，而活着不是为了吃饭。
1115. Live not to eat, but eat to live.
人活着不是为了吃饭，但吃饭是为了活着。
1116. Live and let live.
自己活，也让别人活。
1117. He lives twice who lives well.
活得有价值就等于有两次生命。
1118. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
生于富贵之家。
1119. We are not born for ourselves.
人生天地间，并非为自己。
1120. He that hath time hath life.
时间长驻，生命不息。
1121. They who live longest will see most.
寿长见识广。
1122. He that lives long suffers much.
寿长忧患多。
1123. Men live like fish, the great ones devour the small.
人生犹如鱼，大鱼吃小鱼。
1124. As the life is, so is the end.
人怎样活着必怎样死去。
善有善报，恶有恶报。
1125. As a man lives, so shall he die.
1126. He that is once born, once must die.
有生必有死。
1127. Nothing so certain [sure] as death.
人生在世，难逃死亡。
1128. Praise no man till he is dead.
人未死，莫称赞。
盖棺论定。
1129. There is no medicine against death.
人间没有回春药。
1130. Man is mortal.
1131. Men are mortal.
1132. All men are mortal.
1133. All men must die.
1134. All that lives must die.
人总是会死的。
有生必有死。
1135. Death is common [sure] to all.
人皆有一死。
1136. Dying is as natural as living.
1137. It is as natural to die as to be born.
生死皆自然。
有生必有死。
1138. A man can die but once.
1139. A man can only die once.
1140. We die but once.
人生只有一回死。
1141. All flesh is grass.
人生皆如草。
人生一世，草木一秋。
1142. Death pays all debts [scores].
1143. Death quits (all) scores.
1144. Death squares all accounts.
1145. He that dies pays all (debts).
一死百债清。
人死百债了。
1146. Death frees us from ills.
死亡使我们解脱不幸。
1147. Death is the grand [great] leveller.
1148. Death levels all men.
死亡面前，不分贵贱。
1149. Death spares neither small nor great.
人物不分大小，死神一概不饶。
黄泉路上无贵贱。
1150. Six feet of earth makes all men equal.
六尺墓穴，人人平等。
1151. In the grave the rich and poor lie equal.
墓穴之中，贫富平等。
1152. The end makes all equal.
死亡面前，人人平等。
1153. We shall lie all alike in our graves.
一朝进坟场，人人都一样。
1154. He that liveth in court dieth upon straw.
生于安乐者常死于贫贱。
1155. A ground sweat cures all disorders.
人死解脱了烦恼。
一死百了。
1156. Death defies the doctor.
死亡蔑视医生。
1157. After death, the doctor.
人死医生来。
雨后送伞。
1158. The dead don’t bite.
1159. Dead men tell no tales.
死人泄露不了秘密。
1160. Stone dead [Stone-dead] has no fellow.
死人没有同伙。
人死口闭。
1161. Call no man happy before he is dead.
1162. Call no man happy before his death.[till he dies].
1163. Call no man happy till [until] he is dead.
人死之前说不上幸福。
1164. Only the good die young.
1165. The best go first.
好人不长寿。
1166. Those whom the gods love die young.
神之所爱，英年早逝。
好人不长寿。
1167. Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
1168. Better die with honour than live with shame.
与其忍辱偷生，不如光荣而死。
宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。
1169. An honourable death is better than a disgraceful life.
1170. Better to die in glory than live in dishonour.
死得高尚胜过活的卑劣。
1171. A fair death honours the whole life.
死得高尚，一生荣光。
1172. Better die standing than live kneeling.
1173. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
宁愿站着死，不愿跪着生。
1174. He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly.
过着邪恶生活的人不会正直地死去。
1175. Death meets us everywhere.
人生处处皆会死。
23．贫穷?苦难
1176. Poverty is the mother of health.
贫穷乃健康之母。
1177. Poverty is not a crime.
贫穷不为罪。
1178. Poverty is no sin.
贫穷并非罪恶。
1179. Poverty is not a disgrace, but theft is a disgrace.
贫穷不为耻，盗窃乃足羞。
1180. Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace.
贫困虽痛苦，但并非是耻辱。
1181. Poverty is no disgrace.
贫困非耻辱。
1182. Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself,
is a disgrace.
贫穷不足为耻，但贫穷而不能自立才为耻。
1183. Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
人能安贫就是富。
1184. Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
不要因为害怕贫穷而放弃自由。
1185. Better be poor than wicked.
宁做穷人，不做坏人。
1186. Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。
1187. Poverty and love are hard to hide.
贫穷和爱情，两者难隐瞒。
1188. Poverty breeds strife.
贫穷引起冲突。
1189. Poverty parteth fellowship.
贫穷断友情。
1190. Poverty makes a man mean.
贫穷使人小气。
1191. Poverty on an old man’s back is a heavy burden.
老而贫穷，负担最重。
1192. Be considerate toward the poor.
应为穷人多着想。
1193. Poor without debt is better than a prince.
穷人无债胜似王子。
1194. Happy is he who owes nothing.
无债一身轻。
1195. The poor man wants much, the miser everything.
穷人要得多，守财奴则样样都要。
1196. Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all.
穷人缺乏许多东西，财迷想要所有东西。
1197. A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.
穷人眼中一只养，贵似富人一头牛。
1198. Poor and liberal, rich and covetous.
穷人常大方，富人反贪婪。
穷大方，富贪婪。
1199. Poor folk [men] are fain of little.
穷人无奢望。
穷人易满足。
1200. The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor.
富人口中的美味是穷人的眼泪。
1201. Beggars must [should] be no choosers.
饥不择食。
乞丐岂能挑肥拣瘦。
1202. Hunger is the best sauce.
饥者口中尽佳肴。
饥饿之时，样样好吃。
1203. Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
与其负债起身，不如空腹上床。
1204. He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
向人借债，陷入悲哀。
1205. Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.
借钱才到手，马上便忧愁。
1206. No cross, no crown.
没有十字架，就没有王冠。
无苦即无乐。
1207. Every heart knows its own bitterness.
各人的苦恼自己知。
1208. A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
深忧偿不了小债。
1209. Out of debt, out of danger.
脱离债务即脱离危险。
1210. Company in distress makes trouble [the sorrow] less.
同病相怜，痛苦减轻。
24．损失?失败
1211. Losses make us more cautious.
损失使人谨慎。
1212. We know not what is good until we have lost it.
我们失去某种东西时才觉得它珍贵。
1213. A horse stumbles that has four legs.
人有失手日，马有失蹄时。
1214. Light come, light go.
来得容易去得快。
1215. Lightly gain, quickly lost.
得之容易失之快。
1216. Hold fast when you have it.
牢牢把握手中物。
1217. Grasp all, lose all.
样样都要，全部失掉。
1218. Better lose the saddle than the horse.
与其丢鞍，不可失马。
1219. If I have lost the ring, yet the fingers are still here.
丢了戒指，手指还在。
留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。
1220. Sometimes gain is to lose.
有时得即是失。
1221. For a lost thing cares nothing.
一物既失，计较无益。
1222. What’s lost is lost.
失去的不可复得。
1223. You cannot lose what you never had.
不曾拥有的，永远不会失去。
1224. He who does not gain loses.
不能得就是失。
1225. You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
舍得鱼饵方能钓到大鱼。
小钱不去，大钱不来。
1226. All is not lost that is in danger.
危险之中物，未必会皆失。
1227. No great loss but some small profit.
1228. No great loss without some small profit.
大失去必有小得。
塞翁失马，焉知非福。
1229. One never loses anything by politeness.
礼多不吃亏。
礼多人不怪。
1230. What is lost in the hundred will be found in the shire.
此地失则彼地得。
1231. What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.
失之东隅，收之桑榆。
1232. We lose in hake, but gain in herring.
此失彼得。
失之东隅，收之桑榆。
1233. Either win the horse or lose the saddle.
不是全赢，就是皆输。
1234. One careless move loses the whole game.
一着不慎，满盘皆输。
1235. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
无论怎样的恶风，也不会把每个人都吹得不舒服。
没有使人人都倒霉的坏事。
害于此则利于彼。
1236. There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
海中好鱼取不尽。
一次损失则还有弥补机会。
1237. Many a slip [Many things fall] between the cup and the lip.
杯到唇边，未必喝到酒。
凡事皆有不测风云。
1238. Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
无可失去的人快乐无穷。
1239. Who loses liberty loses all.
失去自由便失去一切。
1240. Only that which is honestly got is gain.
只有正当的收入才算是收入。
1241. All is not gain that is put in the purse.
装进钱袋之物未必皆是正当收入。
1242. Do not run too fast after gain.
不要见利就狂追。
1243. Prefer loss to unjust gain.
宁可遭损失，不取不义财。
1244. Failure is the mother of success.
1245. Failure teaches success.
失败是成功之母。
1246. The weakest goes to the wall.
弱者败北。
1247. Failure is the only high-road to success.
唯有失败才是通向成功的康庄大道。
1248. Failure in a great enterprise is at least a noble fault.
伟大事业的失败至少是高尚的过失。
1249. Losers are always in the wrong.
失败之人受咎多。
成功者为王，失败者为寇。
1250. Loners are losers.
孤立者即失败者。
谁孤立，谁失败。
25．缺点?错误
1251. Each man has his limitations.
人人都有其局限性。
人皆有短。
人无完人，金无足金。
1252. Every man hath [has] his faults.
人皆有过。
1253. Every man has defects of his own virtues [his qualities].
1254. Everybody has his merits and faults.
人有所长，亦有所短。
人人皆有优缺点。
1255. Everybody has some weak spot.
1256. Every man has his weak side.
凡人都有自己的不足。
人皆有不足之处。
1257. There is no man but errs.
1258. There is no man but has his faults.
1259. There is no man without faults.
没有无过失的人。
金无足金，人无完人。
1260. Every bean has its black.
颗颗豆子有黑嘴。
人皆有短。
1261. There are spots (even) in [on] the sun.
太阳也有黑点。
金无足金，人无完人。
1262. To err is Humane.
犯错误乃人之常情。
人非圣贤，孰能无过？
1263. No man is indispensable.
1264. No man [one] is without his faults.
1265. Nobody but has his faults.
1266. Nobody is without faults.
1267. None of us are infallible.
世上无完人。
人非圣贤，孰能无过？
1268. It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool preserves in the error.
人的特点是都会犯错误，但只有傻瓜在坚持错误。
1269. It is a fairy wood that has never a withered bough in it.
再好的树林也会有枯枝。
1270. A spot is most seen on the finest cloth.
最精细的布上的疵点最显眼。
1271. Even Homer sometimes nods.
荷马有时也会打瞌睡。
智者千虑，必有一失。
1272. He is lifeless that is faultless.
死人才无过。
人孰能无过？
1273. He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.
无错之人，一事无成。
人若无错，事事难做。
1274. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
不犯错误的人往往是不干事的人。
不出差错的人干不出什么事来。
1275. Every dog is allowed his first bite.
狗咬初次人不怪。
人错首次不受责。
1276. A fault confessed is half redressed.
承认错误等于改正了一半。
1277. A fault denied is twice committed.
不承认错误就是再犯错误。
1278. A little neglect may breed great mischief.
小失成大害。
小误酿大错。
1279. One false move may lose the game.
一着走错，满盘皆输。
1280. One false step will make a great difference.
一步失误，铸成大错。
失之毫厘，谬以千里。
一失足成千古恨。
1281. A small leak will sink a great ship.
小漏沉大船。
1282. A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差以千里。
1283. Every one’s faults are not written in their foreheads.
人人有错，隐藏不露。
1284. There are faults from which none of us is [are] free.
有些错误是任何人都避免不了的。
1285. The pot calls the kettle black.
锅子嫌罐黑。
责人严而责己宽。
自己有过而责怪别人。
1286. The kettle calls the pot black.
水壶嫌锅黑。
乌鸦笑黑猪。
1287. We see not what is in the wallet behind.
人人都看不见自己背后包里的东西。
人人都看不见自己的缺点。
1288. Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.
欲责他人，先知己过。
正人先正己。
1289. They [People] who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
自己有弱点就别说别人的坏话。
1290. Men too seldom see their own faults.
人很少看见自己的过失。
1291. The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
最大的错误是不知错。
1292. A good marksman may miss.
神射手也有失误的时候。
1293. The best man stumbles.
再好的人也会绊倒。
再好的人也会出错。
1294. The best of us can make mistakes.
再杰出的人也会出错。
智者千虑，必有一失。
1295. It is a good horse that never stumbles; and a good wife that never grumbles.
再好的马也会失蹄，再好的妻子也会唠叨。
1296. It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none.
再干净的嘴也会吐恶言，再善良的心也会想坏事。
1297. It is a skillful technician that never blunders.
1298. The best workman sometimes blunders.
技术再高的工匠也会出差错。
智者千虑，必有一失。
1299. It is a wise man that makes no mistakes.
1300. It is a wise man that never makes mistakes.
再聪明的人也会做错事。
1301. Great men have great faults.
伟大人物也会有巨大的过失。
1302. One who never made a mistake, never made anything.
不犯错误的人必然一事无成。
1303. Never too late to mend.
1304. It is never too late to mend.
补过不嫌晚。
悔过不嫌迟。
亡羊补牢，犹未为晚。
1305. Two blacks do not make a white.
两黑不等于一白。
两个错并不等于一个对。
1306. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
两个错并不等于一个对。
1307. Wrong never comes right.
错的永远对不了。
26．经验?教训
1308. Experience is the best teacher.
经验是最好的老师。
1309. Experience does it.
1310. Experience teaches.
经验诲人。
经验给人智慧。
1311. Experience is a long way.
经验需要长期积累。
1312. Experience is the mother [father] of knowledge.
经验是知识之母[父]。
知识来自实践。
1313. Experience is the mother [father] of wisdom.
经验是智慧之母[父]。
智慧来自实践。
1314. Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
1315. Dexterity comes by experience.
熟练来自经验。
1316. Wit once bought is worth twice taught.
一次亲身体会，胜于两次别人教诲。
1317. Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
有经验而无学问，胜于有学问而无经验。
1318. Experience is the mistress of fools.
经验教导愚人。
愚蠢的人从自己的错误中吸取教训。
1319. Experience is the teacher of fools.
1320. Experience teaches fools.
经验是愚人的老师。
愚蠢的人从自己的错误中吸取教训。
1321. Experience teaches fools, and he is a great one that will not learn by it.
经验教训傻瓜，而不从中吸取教训的人是大傻瓜。
1322. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
经验学府学费高，愚人别处学不到。
1323. Experience is a school from which you can never graduate.
经验是一所永远毕业不了的学校。
1324. Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.
经验不开学校，她只单独传授。
不经一事，不长一智。
1325. Every failure one meets with adds to one’s experience.
遭受一次失败，增加一份经验。
吃一堑，长一智。
1326. The reward of suffering is experience.
经验是对痛苦的报偿。
1327. Experience must be bought.
经验需要花钱买。
不吃一堑，不长一智。
1328. Experience is the fruit of the tree of errors.
经验是谬误之树所结之果。
1329. Experience is sometimes dangerous.
经验有时有害。
1330. Once bit [bitten], twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕草绳。
1331. A burnt child dreads the fire.
1332. The burnt child fears the fire.
1333. Burnt bairns dread the fire.
一次被火烧，见火就害怕。
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
1334. He who has burnt his mouth blows his soup.
烫过嘴的人总是吹汤。
1335. A scalded cat dreads [fears] (even) cold water.
1336. The scalded cat fears cold water.
挨过烫的猫连冷水也怕。
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
1337. The scalded dog fears cold water.
挨过烫的狗连冷水也怕。
1338. A scalded dog thinks cold water hot.
挨过烫的狗以为冷水也热。
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
1339. The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.
挨过棒打的狗见了棒影都怕。
1340. He that has [hath] been bitten by a serpent, is afraid of a rope.
被蛇咬过的人，见了绳子都怕。
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
1341. Whom a serpent has bitten a lizard alarms.
1342. Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard.
1343. Whom an adder bites, dreads a lizard.
被蛇咬过的人，见了蜥蜴都怕。
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
1344. Avoid the ford on which your friend was drowned.
朋友溺水处，浅滩也却步。
前事不忘，后事之师。
前车之辙，后车可鉴。
1345. By other’s faults wise men correct their own.
聪明的人从别人的错误中吸取教训。
前车之辙，后车可鉴。
1346. He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.
智者从别人的不幸中获取教训。
1347. It is good to beware by other men’s harm.
从他人的伤害中吸取教训是有好处的。
1348. Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own.
引他人之失误为教训。
1349. One man’s fault is another man’s lesson.
一人之错，他人之鉴。
1350. Other people’s defects are good teachers.
他人之误为良师。
27．命运?挫折
1351. Fortune favours the bold.
命运之神保佑勇者。
1352. Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s door.
人人都有走运的一天。
1353. The worse luck now, the better another time.
今朝运气不佳，他日时来运转。
1354. If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will
know you.
运气太好，不认自己；运气太坏，无人理睬。
1355. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
恶运临头后，方知幸运贵。
1356. Fortune is variant.
命运变幻莫测。
1357. Misfortunes come at night.
祸常生于不测。
1358. An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
不幸的人掉在茶杯里也会淹死。
1359. Misfortunes never [seldom] come alone [single].
1360. One misfortune calls up another.
1361. One misfortune rides upon another’s back.
1362. One mischief [misfortune] comes on the neck of another.
1363. One woe doth tread upon another’s heels.
1364. Bad luck always comes in threes.
1365. Hardships never come alone.
1366. Troubles never come singly.
祸不单行。
1367. Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by the ounce.
1368. Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
灾祸成堆来，离去慢腾腾。
1369. There is no escape [flying] from fate.
在劫难逃。
1370. No fence against (an) ill fortune.
1371. No fence against [for] ill fortune.
篱笆挡不住恶运。
恶运难逃。
1372. Misfortune is a good teacher.
不幸是位好老师。
1373. Nothing is a greater misfortune than not being able to bear misfortune.
不能承受不幸乃最大的不幸。
1374. Calamity is man’s true touchstone.
灾难是人生真正的试金石。
1375. The longest day must have an end.
不幸的日子总会过去。
1376. Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
挫折是智慧的保姆。
1377. He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
要吃鸡蛋就不要讨厌母鸡的咯咯叫。
要享受就得吃点苦头。
1378. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
患难能使人聪明，但不能使人富有。
1379. Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
逆境给人教益。
1380. Adversity is a good discipline.
1381. Adversity is a good [great] schoolmaster.
困境是最好的磨练。
1382. There is a crook [affliction, trial] in the lot of every one.
人生总有倒霉事。
人生总有坎坷不平。
1383. He that is down, down with him.
人一倒，众人踩。
墙倒众人推。
1384. When a man is going down-hill, everyone will give him a push.
人走下坡路，人人把他推。
墙倒众人推。
1385. When the tree is fallen, every one runs to it with his axe.
大树一倒下，人人拿斧来。
1386. Mischief has swift wings.
灾祸飞来疾。
1387. An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.
一分运气胜过十分才气。
有才气不如有运气。
28．沉默?孤寂
1388. Speech is silver [silvern], (but) silence is gold [golden].
言语是银，沉默是金。
1389. Silence is golden, but speech is silver [silvern].
沉默是金，雄辩是银。
沉默胜于雄辩。
1390. There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
该说话的时候说话，该沉默的时候沉默。
1391. Silence gives [means] consent.
沉默表示同意。
1392. Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
沉默有时是最严厉的批评。
1393. No wisdom like silence.
聪明莫过沉默。
1394. Silence does seldom harm.
口不开，祸不来。
1395. The least said, the soonest mended.
话越少越好。
话少易改。
1396. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
多听少说。
1397. Still waters run deep.
静水流深。
1398. Silence is the best ornament of a woman.
沉默是女人的最好装饰。
1399. The best [greatest] fish keep [swim near] the bottom.
好鱼水底游。
有价值的东西不能轻易得到。
1400. After a storm comes a calm.
暴风雨后天平静。
雨过天晴。
1401. Quietness is best.
宁静最好。
1402. Woe to him that is alone.
孤独的人最可悲。
29．外表?虚假
1403. Appearance often deceives.
1404. Appearances are (often) deceive.
外表常具欺骗性。
不可以貌取人。
1405. Don’t judge by appearance.
1406. Never judge from appearances.
1407. Never judge people by their appearance.
1408. Judge not according to the appearance.
不可根据外貌判断。
不可以貌取人。
1409. Men are not to be measured by (in) inches.
人不可以身材高低来衡量。
人不可貌相。
1410. Men’s characters are not always written on their foreheads.
人品不一定都写在额头上。
知人知面不知心。
1411. Don’t judge men or things at first sight.
1412. Judge not of men and thing at first sight.
不可凭最初的印象看人论事。
1413. Don’t look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains.
不要只看瓶子，而要看瓶子里装着什么。
1414. The habit [cowl, hood] does not make the monk.
1415. It is not the hood that makes the monk.
穿上袈裟不一定就是和尚。
不可以貌取人。
1416. Beauty is but skin deep.
美丽只是皮相。
不能以貌取人。
1417. In appearance place no trust.
1418. There is no trusting to appearance.
外表不可信。
1419. Fair without but foul within.
外善内奸。
金玉其外，败絮其中。
1420. A fair face (but) foul heart.
面孔漂亮，内心肮脏。
1421. It’s not the gay coat that makes the (fine) gentleman.
君子在德不在衣。
1422. Clothes don’t make the man.
人品好坏，不在穿戴。
好马不在鞍，人美不在衫。
1423. Fine feathers do not make fine birds.
羽色美不见得鸟就美。
好马不在鞍，人美不在衫。
1424. It is not only the feather that makes the bird.
鸟美不单凭羽毛。
1425. The face is no index to the heart.
面孔反映不出内心。
知人知面不知心。
1426. Clothes make the man.
1427. Fine clothes make the man.
1428. The coat [garment, tailor] makes the man.
衣着予人风采。
人靠衣服马靠鞍。
1429. Fair feathers make fair fowls.
1430. Fine feathers make fine birds.
漂亮的羽毛会使鸟美。
1431. The face is the index of heart [mind].
面孔反映内心。
观面便知心。
1432. A good face is a letter of recommendation.
漂亮的面孔就是一封推荐信。
1433. A fair face may hide a foul heart.
漂亮面孔后面可能隐藏着一颗龌龊的心。
1434. The handsomest flower is not the sweetest.
最美的花不一定是最香的。
1435. Things are seldom what they seem.
事物很少像其表面看起来的那样。
事物往往名不符实。
1436. All are not saints that go to church.
到教堂做礼拜的未必都是圣徒。
1437. He looks like a saint but the devil he is.
看上去像圣人，其实是魔鬼。
道貌岸然，内心凶残。
1438. I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts.
希腊人带礼物来，没安好心。
1439. A crown is no cure for the headache.
王冠难治头痛。
1440. Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.
纵然装入金杯，毒药还是毒药。
1441. A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
虚情假意不值得感谢。
1442. Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
一瓶不响，半瓶晃荡。
1443. Vain glory blossoms but never bears.
虚荣可以开花，但不会结果。
1444. False with one can be false with two.
对一个人虚假，也会对两个人虚假。
30．愤怒?妒忌
1445. A little pot [pan] is soon hot.
壶小易热。
量小易怒。
1446. A penny soul never came to twopence.
气量狭小难成大事。
斤斤计较少有成功。
1447. Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
乱忙和生气，听不进好主意。
1448. Anger is a short madness.
愤怒乃一时之狂。
1449. Anger punishes itself.
气大伤身。
1450. When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears.
愤怒丧失理智，真理便会消失。
1451. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.
胸中有气，张嘴之前数到十；怒气冲天，不妨来回数十多几边。
1452. Anger rusts intellects so that it cannot discern right from wrong.
怒火锈蚀理智，令人难辨是非。
1453. Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
愤怒起于愚鲁，而终于悔恨。
1454. Anger rests in the bosom of folly.
怒气郁积愚者胸中。
1455. Envy ceaseth after death.
人死妒方止。
1456. Envy never dies.
妒火永不灭。
1457. Envy never enriched any man.
妒忌决不会使人富裕。
1458. Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
妒箭射他人，伤的是自己。
1459. Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak.
位高遭人妒，峰高招风怒。
1460. Two of a trade seldom [never] agree.
1461. Two of a trade can never agree.
同行是冤家。
同行相妒。
31．懒惰?恶行
1462. Idleness is the root of all evil.
1463. Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice].
1464. Idleness is the parent of all vice.
懒惰乃万恶之源。
1465. Of idleness comes no goodness.
一懒生百邪。
1466. Idleness is the key of beggary.
懒惰出乞丐。
1467. Idle people [folks] have the most labour [take the most pains].
1468. Idle folks have the least leisure.
1469. Lazy folks [people] take the most pains.
1470. Lazy folks [people] have the most labour.
1471. Lazy folks [people] have the least leisure.
懒人做工作，越懒越费劲。
1472. He who does not work neither shall he eat.
不劳动者不得食。
不劳无获。
1473. An idle youth, a needy age.
1474. A young man idle, an old man needy.
1475. Idle young, needy age [old].
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
1476. An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
1477. An idle person is the devil’s cusion.
懒汉的头脑是魔鬼的工厂。
游手好闲乃万恶之源。
1478. If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work.
魔鬼发现有人懒，就会和他一起干。
魔鬼专找懒汉。
1479. Idle folks lack no excuses.
懒汉不愁没有借口。
1480. The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
人懒嘴不懒。
1481. Sloth is the key of [to] poverty.
惰能致贫。
1482. Poverty is the reward of idleness.
贫困是对懒惰的惩罚。
1483. An idle soul shall suffer hunger.
懒惰之人必受饥饿之苦。
1484. Sloth turneth the edge of wit.
1485. Idleness turns the edge of wit.
懒散能磨去才智的锋芒。
1486. Idleness rusts the mind.
1487. Idleness is the rust of mind.
1488. Idleness makes the wit rust.
怠惰使头脑迟钝。
1489. An ill life, an ill end.
1490. Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited.
恶有恶报。
1491. A guilt conscience feels continual fear.
1492. A guilt conscience never feels secure.
1493. A guilt conscience is a self-accuser [a thousand witnesses].
1494. A guilt conscience needs no accuser.
罪恶之心，恐慌不安。
做贼心虚。
1495. Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
在罪恶中游泳的人，必将在悲哀中沉没。
1496. Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people.
对罪犯的仁慈，就是对人民的残忍。
1497. A wicked man is his own hell.
恶人作恶，自造地狱。
1498. Evil weed is soon grown.
1499. Ill weeds are sure to thrive.
1500. Ill weeds grow apace [fast].
莠草滋生快。
恶习易染。
1501. An evil lesson is soon learned.
恶行易学。
1502. That which is evil is soon learnt.
恶习易染。
1503. Black will take no other hue.
黑色难以再染。
朽木不可雕。
恶习难改。
1504. Evil (be) to him who evil thinks.
邪念祸其身。
心怀邪念，祸临其身。
1505. Better be upright and want, than wicked and have abundance.
宁可正直穷困，不可富而不仁。
1506. No vice goes alone.
1507. Ill comes often on the back of worse.
恶不单行。
1508. He who has done ill once will do it again.
坏事干一次，便有第二次。
1509. One sin opens the door for another.
一个罪恶为另一个罪恶开门。
坏事干一次，便有第二次。
1510. Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
恶行于人，尺进寸退。
1511. They that do nothing learn to do ill.
游手好闲，容易学坏。
1512. Those who eat best and drink best often do worst.
只图吃好穿好，学坏常常免不了。
1513. No good building without a good foundation.
上梁不正下梁歪。
没有好的基础，就没有好的建筑。
1514. Young saints, old devils.
少时是圣徒，大时成魔鬼。
少时圣洁老邪恶。
1515. Of evil grain, no good seed can come.
坏谷无好种。
1516. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
不良的交往，败坏良好的品行。
1517. Vice rules where gold reigns.
金钱统治之处，邪恶主宰一切。
1518. The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues.
行恶的代价十倍于行善。
1519. A bad thing never dies.
坏事传千年。
1520. Bad news has wings.
1521. Ill news comes [travels] apace.
1522. Ill news flies [travels] fast.
好事不出门，坏时传千里。
1523. The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
重伤可医，恶名难去。
1524. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
宽恕坏人就是伤害好人。
1525. He that spares the bad injures the good.
放纵坏人就是伤害好人。
1526. He that helpeth the evil hurteth the good.
助恶就是伤害善良。
1527. Do not hold a candle to the devil.
不要替魔鬼拿蜡烛照明。
不要为虎作伥。
切莫助纣为虐。
1528. A willful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon.
故意之错不可宽恕。
1529. Evil [Ill]will never said well.
恶意无善言。
狗嘴里吐不出象牙。
1530. He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
不受诱惑就免于罪恶。
1531. The evil (evils) we bring on ourselves is [are] hardest to bear.
自找之罪最难受。
1532. No wrong without remedy.
罪过之病皆有良药。
有过皆可补。
1533. Take a hair of the dog that bit you.
以毒攻毒。
1534. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
问心无愧，打雷也能睡。
1535. Guilty consciences always make people [men] cowards.
良心坏了胆自小。
做贼心虚。
1536. He that lives ill, fear follows him.
做了亏心事，恐惧紧相随。
1537. He who has no shame has no conscience.
不知羞耻的人不知自疚。
1538. Once a knave, ever a knave.
一次成无赖，永远是无赖。
1539. Once a devil, always a devil.
一次做魔鬼，永远是魔鬼。
1540. A crafty knave needs no broker.
狡猾的无赖不需要中间人。
1541. Never hang a man twice for one offence.
一罪不可两治。
32．骄傲?愚笨
1542. Pride goes before a fall.
1543. Pride goes before destruction.
1544. Pride will have a fall.
1345. Pride never left his master without a fall.
骄者必败。
1546. Human pride is human weakness.
骄傲乃人类的弱点。
1547. Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after.
1548. Pride goes before, and shame follows after.
1549. When pride rides, shame lacqueys.
骄傲走在前，羞耻跟后边。
1550. Every cook praises his own broth.
厨子都夸自己做的汤。
老王卖瓜，自卖自夸。
1551. Every man thinks his own things best.
人都以为自己的东西最好。
敝帚自珍。
1552. He is in his better blue clothes.
人人都觉得自己比别人强。
1553. He wots not whether he bears the earth, or the earth him.
自大的人不知道是地球背着他，还是他背着地球。
1554. When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured.
自大之人听到别人受赞扬，便觉得自己受了伤害。
1555. Pride and grace dwell never in one place.
傲慢与温雅，永难住一处。
1556. Pride must be pinched.
骄傲必须收敛。
1557. Pride feels [finds] no colds.
人想图俏，冻死不叫。
佳人不畏寒。
1558. Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
骄傲可能潜藏在旧斗篷下。
1559. Pride that apes humility.
骄傲总是假装谦卑。
1560. Pride is the mask of one’s faults.
骄傲是掩饰错误的假面具。
1561. He that is full of himself is very [quite] empty.
自满之人腹内空。
1562. He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none.
自命万事通，腹中常空空。
1563. He that boasts of his knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
自吹有学问，实际是无知。
1564. The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame.
狂妄吹牛，不久出丑。
1565. The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
鸡肠小肚，越发自负。
1566. Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
班门弄斧。
1567. He that climbs high falls heavily.
爬得高，跌得重。
1568. Fortune favours fools.
1569. God sends fortune to fools.
1570. Fools have fortune.
1571. Fools have the best luck.
傻人有傻福。
1572. Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
人人都有糊涂的时候。
1573. Every man is a fool sometime, and none at all times.
人有糊涂一时，没有糊涂一世。
1574. A fool may give a wise man counsel.
1575. A fool may put somewhat in a wise man’s head.
傻瓜也能给聪明人出点子。
愚者千虑，必有一得。
1576. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.
1577. A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose.
傻瓜有时也可一言中的。
愚者千虑，必有一得。
1578. He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist.
再愚蠢的人也不会拿自己的拳头当楔子用。
1579. A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
愚蠢的人总是缺乏心计。
1580. A wager is a fool’s argument.
傻瓜一争就打赌。
1581. A fool’s heart dances on his lips.
愚蠢的人心挂在唇边。
1582. A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
愚蠢的人总以为别人比自己更蠢。
1583. The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.
愚蠢的人越是富有，就越愚蠢。
1584. It is better to please a fool than to anger him.
对愚蠢人的上策是：使他高兴而不要激怒他。
1585. Fool’s haste is no speed.
傻瓜紧张，白忙一场。
1586. Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
不要怂恿愚人干坏事。
1587. Answer a fool according to his folly.
按照愚人的蠢话回答愚人。（免得他自以为自己聪明。）
1588. A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool.
有的人讲话如智者，而行为却像个愚人。
1589. Fools never know when they are well.
蠢人总是不知足。
1590. A fool always rushes to the fore.
愚人总喜强出头。
1591. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
傻瓜敢于冲向天使不敢落脚的地方。
聪明的人小心谨慎，愚蠢的人胆大妄为。
1592. Fools will be meddling.
蠢人爱管闲事。
1593. It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
两次上钩的鱼才是蠢鱼。
聪明人不上两回当。
1594. ’Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
枉自学聪明，却做愚蠢事。
1595. A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no hope for his
stupidity.
刀钝可在石上磨，人蠢无药可治疗。
1596. He who is born a fool is never cured.
天生傻瓜，无可救药。
1597. Folly is an incurable disease.
愚蠢是一种不治之病。
1598. Give a fool enough rope [rope enough] and he will hang himself.
你给傻瓜绳子长，他拿绳子去悬梁。
任凭傻瓜瞎胡闹，他拿绳子去上吊。
1599. Beauty and folly are often companions.
美人常常缺乏心智。
美与蠢，结伴行。
1600. The follies of youth are food for the repentance in old age.
年轻时胡闹，年老时烦恼。
1601. There is no fool like an old fool.
1602. There is no fool to the old fool.
1603. No fool like an old fool.
1604. No fool to the old fool.
老年荒唐无药可救。
33．撒谎?欺骗
1605. Lies have short [no] legs.
谎言总是站不住脚的。
1606. A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
谎言相生，世代传承。
1607. Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.
虽然谎言巧扮装，到头总会被识破。
1608. Liars begin by imposing upon others but end deceiving themselves.
撒谎者以骗人开始，以骗己告终。
1609. One lie makes [calls for] many.
1610. One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it.
一次撒谎装得像，就得多次假话帮。
1611. He never lies when the holly is green.
只要冬青树绿，他就会撒谎。
爱撒谎的人永远撒谎。
1612. Liars have need of good memories.
1613. Liars need long memories.
1614. Liars should [ought to] have good memories.
撒谎的人须有好记性。
1615. Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
谎言似荨麻，玩弄会刺手。
1616. Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
含糊其词是谎言的近亲。
1617. Gossiping and lying go together.
流言与谎言常并行。
1618. A vaunter and a liar are near akin.
自诩和说谎，二者正相仿。
1619. A boaster and a liar are all one.
吹牛者和撒谎者是一路货。
1620. A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.
吹牛者和撒谎者是表兄弟。
1621. A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
假舌不会吐真言。
狗嘴里吐不出象牙。
1622. Lying is the first step to the gallows.
说谎是迈向断头台的第一步。
1623. Lying rides upon debt’s back.
负债之人谎言多。
1624. He that will swear, will lie.
好发誓的人也好撒谎。
1625. A great talker is a great liar.
夸夸其谈的人也最会说谎。
1626. The greatest liars talk most of themselves.
自吹自擂之人常常是最大的说谎者。
1627. He that will lie will steal.
撒谎之人常盗窃。
1628. Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief.
说谎是盗窃的开始。
1629. A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
撒谎的人即使说了真话也无人相信。
1630. There is many a fair thing full false.
许多动听之事充满了谬误。
1631. Interest will not lie.
兴趣是不会说谎的。
1632. He that trusts in a lie shall perish in truth.
相信谎言的人必将在真实中毁灭。
1633. He cries wine and sells vinegar.
喊的是酒，卖的却是醋。
挂羊头，卖狗肉。
1634. Cheats never prosper.
骗子永远不发达。
1635. To deceive oneself is very easy.
欺骗自己非常容易。
1636. Gain got by a lie will burn one’s fingers.
靠骗人得利将会最终害己。
1637. He that once deceives is ever suspected.
骗人一次，受疑一世。
1638. He who trusteth is not deceived.
不轻信者难被骗。
34．花草?树木
1639. One flower makes no garland.
一朵花做不成一个花环。
1640. No rose without a thorn.
1641. Every rose has its thorn.
玫瑰皆有刺。
没有尽善尽美的东西。
1642. Straws show which way the wind blows.
1643. A straw shows which way the wind blows.
草动示风向。
1644. Weeds want no sowing.
杂草不需种。
1645. A drowning man will catch at a straw.
溺水者见草也要抓。
急何能择。
1646. Where there are reeds, there is water.
有芦苇必有水。
1647. Like tree, like fruit.
有什么样的树，就有什么样的果。
1648. He that would eat [have] the fruit must climb the tree.
要吃果子就得上树。
1649. You cannot see the wood for trees.
见树不见林。
1650. No root, no fruit.
无根则无果。
35．飞禽?走兽
1651. Old bees yield no honey.
老蜂不产蜜。
1652. ’Tis the early bird that catches the worm.
早起的鸟儿先得虫。
捷足先登。
1653. The bird loves her nest.
鸟爱自己的窝。
1654. Each bird likes to hear himself sing.
鸟都爱听自己唱歌。
1655. The bird that can sing and won’t sing must be made to sing.
天生能唱之鸟，不唱也得使其唱。
1656. A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
鸟以声闻，人以言知。
1657. Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
1658. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
一鸟在手，胜于两鸟在林。
1659. Kill two birds with one stone.
一石双鸟。
一箭双雕。
1660. The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught.
捕鸟人笛声悠扬，诱得鸟儿自投网。
1661. The noisy fowler catches no bird.
捕鸟人声张，鸟儿不落网。
1662. He that will take the bird must not scare it.
要想捕到鸟，就别惊扰鸟。
1663. Old birds are not caught with new nests.
新网难捉老鸟。
1664. Clumsy birds have to start flying early.
笨鸟先飞。
1665. One swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。
1666. The snail slides up the tower at last though the swallow mounteth it sooner.
燕子一上塔，蜗牛跟着爬。
1667. The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at Midsummer, and
then goes away.
布谷鸟，四月来，五月一直在；仲夏唱支歌，随后便离开。
1668. If the sky falls, we shall catches larks.
天塌正好捉云雀。
切勿杞人忧天。
1669. When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace.
枭鸟一唱，夜莺屏息。
1670. An owl is the king of the night.
猫头鹰乃黑夜之王。
1671. Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
鹰爱独飞羊喜群。
1672. Empty hands no hawk allure.
空手不能诱鹰来。
1673. Hawks will not pick hawk’s eyes out.
老鹰不啄老鹰眼。
同类不相残。
1674. A kite will never be a good hawk.
鸢永不会变成隼。
1675. A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.
乌鸦即使常洗澡，羽毛也不会变白。
1676. The crow thinks his own bird fairest.
乌鸦总以为子最美。
1677. Crows do not pick crow’s eyes.
乌鸦不啄乌鸦的眼睛。
同类不相残。
1678. Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the ravens be gathered together.
哪里有死尸，乌鸦便成群。
1679. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
鸡蛋未孵，别数鸡雏。
不要过早乐观。
1680. Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings.
狐狸虽会跑，小鸡有翅膀。
1681. Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly.
粒粒粮食，母鸡饱食。
1682. Fat hens lay few eggs.
肥胖母鸡下蛋稀。
1683. If the hen does not prate, she will not lay.
不咯咯叫的母鸡不下蛋。
1684. It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in another’s.
你家咯咯鸡，别家窝里蛋，这样的母鸡要不得。
1685. Young cocks love no coops.
小公鸡不恋笼。
1686. A cock is bold on his dunghill.
粪堆之上公鸡称王。
1687. A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock.
公鸡眼中麦粒胜于一颗钻石。
1688. He that will have his farm full, must keep an old cock and a young bull.
要想农庄充裕，老鸡小牛少不了。
1689. Never cackle till your egg is laid.
事未成功莫先夸耀。
1690. A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.
鸭子不会老在同一条沟里玩水。
1691. All your swans are geese.
你的天鹅都成了普通的鹅。
所有的希望都落空了。
1692. All his geese are swans.
自家的鹅都是天鹅。
蔽帚自珍。
1693. The swans sings when death comes.
死期来到，天鹅歌声美妙。
1694. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
适用于某种情况者必然适用于类似的情况。
1695. It is a blind silly goose that comes to the fox’s sermon.
只有盲目的蠢鹅才会去听狐狸讲道。
1696. Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
杀鹅取金蛋。
只图眼前需要，断绝将来财源。
1697. A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.
猪死皆因体肥。
1698. Never cast your pearls before swine.
切勿明珠暗投。
不要对牛弹琴。
1699. Pigs may fly, but they are very unlikely birds.
猪儿纵会飞，终究不是鸟。
1700. You cannot makes a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
猪耳做不成丝绸包。
巧妇难为无米之炊。
1701. If the beard were all, the goat might preach.
如果胡须能说明问题，山羊也可讲道。
1702. Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.
羊每叫一声就少吃一口。
1703. One sheep follows another.
羊性喜盲从。
1704. If one sheep leap over the dyke, all the rest will follow.
一羊过沟百羊随。
1705. One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
一羊生癣，众羊遭殃。
1706. The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the wolf.
羊踩起的灰尘挡不住狼。
1707. The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb.
有活狼就有死羊。
1708. Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.
乌鸦吃死羊，先要哭一场。
猫哭老鼠假慈悲。
1709. One butcher does not fear many sheep.
屠夫不怕羊多。
1710. You have no goats, and yet you sell kids.
家中无老羊，轮到卖羊羔。
1711. As soon goes the young lamb’s skin to market as the old ewe’s.
老羊皮上市，小羊皮也会跟着上市。
1712. A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
懒羊总觉羊毛重。
1713. It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
蠢羊才向狼忏悔。
1714. There is a black sheep in every flock.
害群之马处处有。
1715. It is a small flock that has not a black sheep.
人多必有败类。
1716. The cow that’s first up gets the first of the dew.
早起母牛先得露。
1717. The ox is never woe, till he to the harrow go.
挂耙去耕地，牛方知艰辛。
1718. Not all butter that the cow yields.
母牛所产未必尽黄油。
1719. The ox when weariest treads surest.
牛困走得稳。
1720. The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
有时不爱惜，失后徒叹息。
1721. You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
1722. If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
不能既要卖奶牛，又想喝牛奶。
事难两全。
1723. Old oxen have stiff horns.
牛老角硬。
1724. An ox is taken by the horns, and the man by the tongue.
牛被执角，人被舌毁。
1725. Many good cows have evil calves.
1726. Many a good cow hath a bad calf.
好牛会生坏牛犊。
虎父生犬子。
1727. The black ox has trod on his foot.
大祸临头。
1728. If the ox falls, whet your knife.
牛一倒，快磨刀。
人遭难，众人踩。
1729. You may know the horse by his harness.
观马可知马性。
1730. A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.
相马不可凭马饰。
1731. A good horse often needs a good spur.
好马常需好靴刺。
1732. It is a good horse that never stumbles.
凡马皆有失蹄时。
人无完人，金无足金。
1733. He is a gentle horse that never cast his rider.
训良之马不会甩倒骑手。
1734. A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.
不愿加鞍的马，不得吃燕麦。
1735. Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride.
老柴好烧，老马好骑。
1736. A ragged colt may make a good horse.
丑驹可能长成骏马。
后生可畏。
1737. You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
你可以把马牵到水边，但不能强迫其饮水。
不要强人所难。
1738. Don’t swap horses when crossing a stream.
行至中流不换马。
危难之时不宜作大变动。
1739. Every horse thinks his sack heaviest.
每一匹马都认为自己驮的袋子最重。
1740. The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.
马劣却怪马鞍坏。
1741. Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse.
瞎马鼓勇气，正是危险事。
1742. A galled horse will not endure the comb.
擦伤的马不耐梳。
1743. The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching.
好马需要训，好子需要教。
1744. It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse.
要想把马训得好，缰绳靴刺少不了。
1745. A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.
马驹犹可练，老马最难训。
1746. A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle.
烈马要套粗笼头。
1747. An ass endures his burden, but not more than his burden.
驴能负重，但也不宜过重。
1748. Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse.
宁为鸡头，不为牛后。
1749. Wherever an ass falleth, there will be never fall again.
驴子不会在同一地方跌倒两次。
1750. The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.
驴子叫声虽响，但也传不到天上。
1751. The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle.
驴子不乖，休怪驮鞍。
1752. If a donkey brays at you, don’t bray at him.
别和蠢人一般见识。
1753. He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot.
指望骡子无微暇，只有自己徒步行。
1754. A lion at home, a mouse abroad.
在家是狮子，外出成老鼠。
1755. The mountains have brought forth a mouse.
大山生小鼠。
费力大而收效小。
1756. A blate cat makes a proud mouse.
猫儿腼腆，耗子翻天。
1757. A cat has nine lives.
猫有九条命。
1758. When the cat’s away, the mice will play.
猫儿不在家，耗子就玩耍。
猫儿不在老鼠闹。
1759. A gloved cat catches no mice.
戴手套的猫儿抓不到老鼠。
1760. Cats hide their paws.
猫儿不露爪。
1761. A cat may look at a king.
猫也有权瞧国王。
位卑之人也应有些权利。
1762. Ale will make a cat speak.
喝了淡啤酒，猫也会开口。
酒后话语多。
1763. All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.
猫爱吃鱼却又怕弄湿爪。
想得到好东西，却又不愿冒风险。
1764. It is said that a cat hath nine lives, yet care would wear them all out.
据说猫有九条命，忧虑过多也伤身。
1765. The cat and dog may kiss, yet are none the better friends.
猫和狗也许可以亲吻，但永远成不了朋友。
1766. When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
黄鼠狼与猫联姻，不是好兆头。
1767. Love me, love my dog.
爱屋及乌。
1768. Dog does not eat dog.
狗不吃狗。
同类不相残。
1769. Every dog is a lion at home.
狗在家中，八面威风。
1770. Every dog is valiant at his own door.
站在家门口，狗也雄赳赳。
1771. Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
宁为犬首，不作狮尾。
1772. Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings.
饥不择食。
1773. Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread.
狗把尾巴摇，爱的是面包。
1774. Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail.
莫因狗尾摇，每次给面包。
1775. Too much pudding will choke a dog.
太多布丁也会噎死狗。
1776. A good dog deserves a good bone.
好狗应啃好骨头。
1777. While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.
狗啃骨头无同伴。
1778. Two dogs strive for a bone, the third runs away with it.
两狗相争一骨头，第三只狗衔起走。
1779. One barking dog sets all the streets barking.
一犬吠影，百犬吠声。
1780. A barking dog is better than a sleeping lion.
吠犬胜于睡狮。
1781. A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
肉骨头打狗狗不叫。
1782. Barking dogs seldom bite.
吠犬不咬人。
1783. Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand.
远处狗就叫，近身不会咬。
1784. Beware of a silent dog and still water.
哑狗和静水，二者都得防。
1785. In every country dogs bite.
凡狗皆咬人。
1786. Mad dog bites his master.
疯狗咬主人。
1787. Let sleeping dog lie.
勿扰睡狗。
莫惹是生非。
1788. If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.
老狗叫，是忠告。
1789. An old dog bites sore.
老狗咬人咬得狠。
1790. An old dog cannot alter its way of barking.
老狗难改吠叫声。
1791. All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
狗对着吠叫的人，并非都是小偷。
1792. Help the dog over the stile.
帮助落难者度过难关。
1793. Every dog has his day.
人人皆有得意时。
片瓦也有翻身日。
1794. A living dog is better than a dead lion.
活狗胜死狮。
1795. Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
欲加之罪，何患无辞。
1796. He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.
有心打狗好找棍。
欲加之罪，何患无辞。
1797. When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink.
待到狗溺水，众人给水喝。
1798. The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping.
兔子睡大觉，乌龟赢赛跑。
1799. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
同时追两兔，一只也难捕。
1800. One should not run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
切莫两面讨好。
1801. He that will have a hare to breakfast must hunt overnight.
要想吃兔肉，必须早下手。
1802. First catch your hare then cook him.
要吃兔肉先捕兔。
1803. The fox may grow grey, but never good.
狐狸会变老，永远难变好。
1804. The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
睡着的狐狸捉不到鸡。
1805. It is an evil sign to see a fox lick a lamb.
狐狸舔羊羔，不是好迹象。
1806. When the fox preacheth, then beware your geese.
每逢狐狸讲道，当心鹅子遭殃。
1807. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial.
审鹅不应让狐狸作陪审。
1808. The old goose plays not with foxes.
老鹅不跟狐狸耍。
1809. The fox’s wiles will never enter the lion’s head.
狐狸的诡计永远进不了狮子的头脑。
1810. Old foxes want no tutors.
老狐无须老师教。
1811. An old fox is not easily snared.
老狐不易陷罗网。
1812. The fox smells his own stink first.
狐狸有恶臭，自己先嗅出。
1813. You can have no more of the fox than the skin.
狐狸除了皮，别的全无用。
1814. The tail does often catch the fox.
狐狸被抓，皆因尾巴。
1815. The fox is known by his brush.
狐狸尾巴大，人人认识它。
1816. The fox that had lost its tail would persuade others out of theirs.
一只狐狸丢尾巴，就劝别的也丢它。
1817. The wolf and fox are both privateers.
狐狸与狼，抢劫大王。
1818. The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature.
狼会掉牙，本性难改。
1819. The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf.
孤羊遇狼，必然遭殃。
1820. By little and little the wolf eateth the sheep.
狼吃羊，一点一点进肚肠。
1821. Give never the wolf the wether.
莫把阉羊送给狼。
1822. The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.
群狼一死众羊安。
1823. While you trust to the dog, the wolf slips into the sheepfold.
当你认为狗可信，羊圈已被狼溜进。
1824. It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf.
跟狼把和平讲，此羊必癫狂。
1825. Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods.
饥饿引狼出森林。
1826. A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.
青年在成长，食量大如狼。
1827. A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
小偷识小偷，正像狼识狼。
1828. Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
与狼相结交，就会学狼嚎。
1829. Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
人与人交往，不是上帝就是狼。
1830. When the wolf grows old, the crows ride him.
狼老乌鸦欺。
1831. The leopard can never change its spots.
花斑豹永远改变不了身上的斑点。
本性难改。
1832. He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
骑虎难下。
1833. The tiger that has once tasted blood is never sated with the taste of it.
一次尝到血，虎欲永难揭。
1834. Beard the lion in his den.
老虎头上捉虱。
太岁头上动土。
1835. Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp.
杀狮应在幼小时。
1836. The lion is known by his claws [paws].
狮以爪出名。
1837. The lion’s skin is never cheap.
狮皮从不贱。
1838. It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
睡狮莫惊。
1839. The lion is not so fierce as he is painted.
狮子没有画上的凶猛。
1840. An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag.
一只狮子领一群鹿比一只鹿领的一只狮子更难对付。
1841. Where the deer is slain, some of her blood will lie.
鹿死总有血迹留。
1842. The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood.
野猪一怒，力大无穷。
1843. He who shareth honey with the bear hath the least part of it.
与熊分蜜，只能尝一滴。
1844. Kings and bears often worry keepers.
国王与熊，常使看守忧心忡忡。
1845. Do not sell the bear’s skin before you have caught the bear.
熊未到手休卖皮。
莫高兴太早。
1846. An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet.
尽管衣绸穿红，猿猴仍是猿猴，侍从仍是侍从。
36．朋友?敌人
1847. A friend is a second self.
朋友是第二个自我。
1848. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难中的朋友才是真正的朋友。
1849. Nothing is dearer to a man than a friend in need.
患难之交最可贵。
1850. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
真正的朋友是两个躯体一个灵魂。
挚友乃两人同心。
1851. The best mirror is an old friend.
1852. There is no better looking-glass than an old friend.
老朋友是一面最好的镜子。
1853. A friend is best found in adversity.
患难之中显真朋。
1854. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
患难考验朋友。
1855. A friend is never known till a man has need.
1856. A friend is known in necessity.
1857. At need one sees who his friend is.
1858. The friend is known in the time of difficulty.
患难识得真朋友。
1859. A man must eat a peck of salt with his friends before he knows him.
与朋友相处日久方知其人。
日久见人心。
1860. Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.
择友之前先了解。
1861. A faithful friend is hard to find.
忠实朋友实难寻。
1862. A friend is easier lost than found.
朋友易失不易得。
1863. Short accounts make long friends.
若要交情深，有帐不可拖。
1864. Even reckoning makes long friends.
彼此无帐，友情久长。
1865. He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
背后称我好，才算好朋友。
1866. A good friend is my nearest relation.
好友即至亲。
1867. A near friend is better than a fardwelling kinsman.
近友胜远亲。
1868. A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.
朝中朋友胜于包中钱。
1869. It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
无论天堂和地狱，最好都结交几个朋友。
1870. It is good to have friends in trouble.
患难之中能有朋友是好事。
1871. Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
1872. No road is long with good company.
途中良友作伴，路程不觉遥远。
1873. Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
结交宜多，朋友宜少。
1874. Many friends in general, one in special.
泛交众多，好友一个。
1875. A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
1876. A friend to all is a friend to none.
与任何人都是朋友，结果跟谁都交不成朋友。
友多没有好朋友。
1877. Poverty tries friends.
贫穷考验朋友。
1878. Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
1879. Poverty makes strange bedfellows.
贫穷使陌生者成为同床好友。
贫不择友。
1880. Try your friend ere you trust him.
信任朋友前，应当先考验。
1881. Prove thy friend ere thou have need.
需要朋友帮忙前，要对他们先考验。
1882. In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty.
走运之时朋友多。
1883. He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend.
钱袋装得饱，朋友不会少。
1884. A table friend is a variable friend.
1885. Table friendship soon changes.
酒桌上的朋友多变化。
酒肉朋友靠不住。
1886. No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot.
酒肉朋友不长久。
1887. Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
富裕招致朋友，贫困考验朋友。
1888. Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
朋友如琴弦，不能上太紧。
1889. All are not friends that speak us fair.
讲自己好话的并不都是朋友。
1890. I will be thy friend, but not thy vices’ friend.
我愿意做你的朋友，但不做你恶习的朋友。
1891. A friend without faults will never be found.
没有缺点的朋友不存在。
1892. We shall never have fiends if we expect to find them without fault.
指望朋友无缺点，永远别想交朋友。
1893. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
失友快，交友慢。
1894. Between friends all is common.
朋友之间不分彼此。
1895. Old friends and old wine are best.
陈酒味醇，老友情深。
1896. Everything is good when new, friends when old.
物莫如新，友莫如故。
1897. A man without a friend is only half a man.
没有朋友只能算半个人。
1898. Better without gold than without friend.
宁可没有金银，不可缺少朋友。
1899. Without a friend, the world is wilderness.
没有朋友，世界就成了一片荒野。
1900. A life without a friend is like a life without a sun.
人生没有朋友。犹如生活没有阳光。
1901. Life without friend is death.
生活中没有朋友就等于死亡。
1902. Friendless is the dead.
死者没有朋友。
1903. Hunger knows no friend.
饥饿不识友。
1904. Misery makes strange bedfellows.
1905. Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
1906. Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
逆境使陌生人成为同床好友。
难中不择友。
同病相怜。
客舍休悲柳色新，何处相逢非故人。
1907. Better be alone than in bad company.
1908. It is better to be alone than in ill company.
交损友不如不交友。
1909. God defend [deliver] me from my friends; from my enemies I can [will] defend myself.
仇人易防，朋友难缠。
1910. False friends are worse than open enemies.
假朋友比真敌人更坏。
1911. A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.
1912. False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
假朋友比死对头还坏。
1913. An open enemy is better than a hollow friend.
1914. Better an open enemy than a false friend.
1915. There is more danger from a pretended friend than from an enemy.
公开的敌人胜过虚假的朋友。
1916. He that lies down [sleeps] with dogs must rise up with fleas.
与恶人交友会变恶。
近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
1917. A man is known by his friends.
1918. A man is known by the company he keeps.
1919. As a man is, so is his company.
观其友，知其人。
什么样的人交什么样的朋友。
1920. Old acquaintance will soon be remembered.
故友一见便相亲。
1921. Friends must part.
1922. The best of friends must part.
好友终有分手时。
1923. Short acquaintance brings repentance.
浅交致后悔。
1924. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
即使你当时并不喜欢，也应记下爱你之人的忠告。
1925. Merry meet, merry part.
好聚好散。
1926. Friends agree best at a distance.
朋友有间隔，意见才能合。
朋友间应保持一定距离。
1927. Friends are thieves of time.
朋友是时间的盗贼。
交友花费时间。
1928. True friendship lasts forever.
真正的友谊与世长存。
1929. Without confidence there is no friendship.
没有信任，就没有友谊。
1930. Friendship cannot stand always on one side.
1931. Friendship should not be all on one side.
友谊不能总在一方。
1932. Community of purpose makes friendship.
目标一致，产生友谊。
1933. Fire is the test of gold, adversity of friendship.
烈火试真金，逆境测友情。
1934. Friendship is like wine ——the older the better.
友谊如美酒，越陈越醇厚。
1935. True friendship is like sound health, the value of which is seldom known until it be lost.
真正友谊似健康，失去方知其珍贵。
1936. Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy.
新友不可信，宿敌需提防。
1937. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
朋友向你皱眉胜过敌人向你微笑。
1938. A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
勇敢的敌人胜过懦怯的朋友。
1939. An enemy’s mouth seldom speaks well.
敌人口中无好言。
1940. Believe no tales from the enemy.
敌人所言不可信。
1941. Gifts from the enemies are dangerous.
敌人的礼物要不得。
1942. Do not despise your enemy.
不可轻敌。
1943. He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
跟坏人打交道，要特别小心。
1944. If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
即使我们决心宽恕敌人，也决不能相信敌人。
1945. Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion.
即使敌人小如鼠，也要防其大如狮。
1946. He that dallies with enemy gives him leave to kill him.
把敌人当儿戏，无异于准许敌人杀害自己。
1947. Who shows mercy to an enemy denies it to himself.
怜惜敌人就是不怜惜自己。
1948. An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgiveness must not feel thy sword.
对俯伏在你脚下乞怜的敌人，绝不可让他触及你的剑。
1949. Mickle power makes many enemies.
权高树敌多。
1950. One enemy is too much.
一个敌人已嫌多。
1951. One enemy [fee] is too many; and a hundred friends too few.
敌人一个已嫌多，朋友一百也嫌少。
1952. Nothing worse than a familiar enemy.
知我之敌最危险。
1953. One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
一个敌人为害，胜过十个朋友行好。
1954. Make your enemy your friend.
要化敌为友。
1955. If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again.
你若想与人结怨，只须先借钱给他，然后再向他催讨。
1956. In an enemy spots are soon seen.
敌人身上求疵易。
1957. All are brave when the enemy flies.
敌人遁逃时，人人皆勇士。
37．其他谚语
1958. A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm.
借来的大氅不暖身。
1959. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
眼不见，心更想。
1960. A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮了别人，毁灭了自己。
1961. A chain is no stronger than its weakest lining.
一环薄弱，全链不强。
1962. A clean hand wants no washing.
清白的人无需为自己洗刷。
1963. A constant guest is never welcome.
常来之客不会受欢迎。
1964. A creaking door [gate] hangs long on its hinges.
病夫多长命。
1965. A danger foreseen is half avoided.
预见其患则患不足惧。
1966. After meat, mustard.
饭后上芥末。
雨后送伞。
1967. A good example is the best sermon.
良好的范例是最好的训诫。
1968. All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
姑娘个个好，泼妇何处来？
1969. All is fish that comes to his net.
到了网中都是鱼。
只要到手全都要。
1970. All is well that ends well.
结果好，就一切都好。
1971. A man is as old as he feels.
老不老，自己晓。
你觉得自己有多老就有多老。
1972. A man may love his house well without riding on the ridge.
一个人尽可以欣赏自己的房子，而不必骑在屋顶上夸耀。
有宝何必人前夸。
1973. A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。
1974. Avarice blinds our eyes.
贪婪障人目。
1975. A watched kettle [pot] never boils.
看着的水壶永不开。
1976. A watched pot [pan] is long in boiling.
心急水不开。
盼得越切，来得越晚。
1977. A wonder lasts but nine days.
新鲜事儿不久长。
1978. A worm will turn.
逼人太甚，必有反抗。
1979. Bad workmen often blame their tools.
拙匠常怪工具差。
1980. Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
宁作自由民之首，不为贵族之尾。
1981. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
宁在地狱作阎王，不在天堂作奴仆。
1982. Beware beginnings.
慎始为上。
1983. Bind the sack before it is full.
麻袋装得满扎不住口。
凡事适可而止。
1984. By the street of “Bye-and-bye” one arrives at the house of “Never”.
拖延因循，一事无成。
1985. Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.
身为凯撒妻，必须无可疑。
1986. Care killed the cat.
久虑伤身。
1987. Cheek brings success.
厚着脸皮，无往不利。
1988. Companions are odious.
人比人，气死人。
1989. Congenial minds are disposed to associate.
物以类聚，人以群分。
1990. Cowards die often [many times] before their deaths.
胆小鬼常自己吓死自己。
1991. Creditors have better memories than debtors.
债主的记性比借债人好。
1992. Cry up wine and sell vinegar.
挂羊头，卖狗肉。
1993. Danger is next neighbour to security.
危险是安全的紧邻。
1994. Dangers foreseen are the sooner prevented.
危险若被预见，则可及早提防。
1995. Despair gives courage to a coward.
人急造反，狗急跳墙。
1996. Discretion is the better part of valour.
小心即大勇。
1997. Do not halloo till [until] you are out of the wood(s).
未出险境，先莫高兴。
1998. Don’t put the cart before the horse.
不要本末倒置。
1999. Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.
切勿良莠不分一齐扔。
2000. Every man has his humour.
各人有各人的脾气。
2001. Every mechanism has its reverse.
每一枚勋章[每样事物]都有正反两面。
2002. Every miller draws water to his own mill.
人人为己。
2003. Example is better than precept.
范例胜于教训。
2004. Extremes meet.
两极相通。
物极必反。
2005. Familiarity breeds contempt.
亲昵引起歧视。
近之则不逊。
2006. Far from eye far from heart.
眼不见，心不想。
2007. First come, first served.
先到先招待。
2008. First impressions are half the battle.
最初的印象最重要。
2009. Fish begins to stink at the head.
鱼腐头先臭。
上梁不正下梁歪。
2010. Forbidden fruit is sweet.
禁果味甜。
2011. Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard.
得寸进尺。
2012. God helps those who help themselves.
天助自助者。
2013. God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.
肉是上帝赐的，厨子是魔鬼派的。
2014. Golden words offend the ears.
忠言逆耳。
2015. Good counsel never comes amiss.
忠言有利无害。
2016. Good wine needs no bush.
酒好客自来。
2017. Good words are worth much and cost little.
好话不要本钱，但价值很大。
2018. Great designs require great consideration.
大计划要慎重考虑。
2019. Harm set, harm get.
害人反害己。
2020. Haste makes waste.
欲速则不达。
2021. Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
爬得快，跌得快。
2022. Hear all parties.
兼听则明。
2023. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
没有受过伤的人才会嘲笑别人的伤疤。
2024. He laughs best who laughs last.
谁笑在最后，谁笑得最好。
不要高兴得过早。
2025. Hell is paved with good intentions.
通向地狱的道路是由良好的愿望铺成的。
良好的愿望不一定有好的结果。
2026. He measures another’s corn by his own bushel.
用自己的标准衡量别人。
以己之心度他人之腹。
2027. He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
不能自爱，焉能爱人。
2028. He that mischief hatches, mischief catches.
害人者终将害己。
2029. He that sups with the devil must have a long spoon.
和坏人打交道必须提高警惕。
2030. He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
要笑别人背驼，自己就得挺起胸膛走路。
2031. He who laughs best laughs last.
笑在最后，笑得最好。
别高兴得太早。
2032. He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
要抓鱼就不要怕沾水。
2033. He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
千里之行，始于足下。
2034. History repeats itself.
历史自身常重演。
2035. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
抱最好的希望，准备应付最坏的情况。
2036. Hunger breaks stone walls.
饥饿能使人冲破石墙。
饥饿使造反。
2037. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
大山不向穆罕默德移来，穆罕默德只好向大山走去。
他若不迁就你，你只有迁就他。
2038. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
愿望若是马，乞丐也可乘。
愿望难成事实。
2039. If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.
指挥有方，人人乐从。
2040. Ill air slays sooner than the sword.
污浊的空气杀人比刀快。
2041. Ill news never comes too late.
坏消息总是来得快。
2042. In the kingdom of blind men, the one-eyed is king.
生在盲人国，独眼也称王。
2043. It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
与其作忏悔者，不如作殉道者。
2044. It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.
召鬼容易驱鬼难。
2045. It’s easy to swim if another holds up your head.
有人托着头容易学游泳。
有人扶持易成功。
2046. It’s no good [use] crying over spilt milk.
牛奶撒地，哭也无用。
事已如此，后悔也无用。
2047. It never rains but it pours.
不雨则已，一雨倾盆。
2048. Jack is as good as his master.
伙计不比老板差。
2049. Jack of all trades and master of none.
门门通，都不精。
万事皆通，事事不精。
2050. Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing.
亲人帮亲人，无亲来帮愁煞人。
2051. Life begins at forty.
人生始于四十。
2052. Like attracts [draws to] like.
物以类聚。
2053. Like author, like book.
文如其人。
2054. Like begets like.
龙生龙，凤生凤。
有其因必有其果。
2055. Like cures like.
同物相医。
以毒攻毒。
2056. Like knows like.
英雄识英雄。
2057. Like likes like.
物以类聚。
2058. Like master, like man.
有其主必有其仆。
2059. Little chips light great fires.
星星之火，可以燎原。
2060. Long absent, soon forgotten.
久别易忘。
2061. Long tarrying takes all thanks away.
耽搁太久，会把人家的谢意全撵走。
2062. Lookers-on see most of the game.
旁观者清。
2063. Man is a god or a devil to his neighbour.
一个人对其邻居来说，不是上帝，就是魔鬼。
2064. Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
2065. Many men have many minds.
人多意见多。
人多心不齐。
2066. Many wells, many buckets.
井多桶也多。
2067. Measure for measure.
以冤报冤。
以牙还牙。
2068. Measure thrice before you cut once.
三思而后行。
2069. Misery loves company.
同病相怜。
2070. Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs.
莫笑皮匠拇指黑。
2071. More haste, less speed.
欲速则不达。
2072. Music is the eye of the ear.
音乐是耳朵的眼睛。
2073. Necessity is the mother of invention.
需要是发明之母。
2074. Neither fish nor flesh.
2075. Neither fish nor good red herring.
非驴非马。
不伦不类。
2076. Never offer to teach fish to swim.
不要教鱼游泳。
别班门弄斧。
2077. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
麻烦没有来找你，别去自找麻烦。
2078. No man can do two things at once.
一人不能同时做两件事。
心无二用。
2079. No man ever became thoroughly bad all at once.
从来没有人突然变得很坏。
2080. No man is content.
世上无人知足。
2081. None so deaf as those who won’t hear.
不肯倾听别人意见的人是最聋的人。
2082. No news is good news.
没有消息就是好消息。
2083. Nothing is ever done in a hurry.
匆匆忙忙办不成任何事。
2084. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
有志者，事竟成。
2085. Nothing is stolen without hands.
无贼不失窃。
2086. Older and wiser.
越老越聪明。
2087. Old vessels must leak.
船旧必漏。
2088. Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs.
鸡蛋不打破，蛋卷做不成。
2089. One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
一滴毒药足以毒坏整桶酒。
2090. One hand washes another [the other].
有来有往。
互相利用。
2091. One lining broken, the whole chain is broken.
一环脱，全链断。
2092. One mail drives out another.
一钉入，一钉出。
新事物代替旧事物。
2093. One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the hedge.
只许州官放火，不许百姓点灯。
2094. Oppression maketh a wise man mad.
人处压迫下，聪明也会疯。
2095. Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不见，心不想。
2096. Pain is forgotten where gain follows.
一朝得了利，痛苦便忘记。
2097. Pitchers have ears.
隔墙有耳。
2098. Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
2099. Praise is not pudding.
恭维不是布丁。
恭维不是实惠。
2100. Promises are like piecrust, made to be broken.
诺言好似馅饼皮，做来便是为咬碎。
2101. Promise is debt.
许愿如欠债，欠了便要还。
许愿要还，欠债要清。
2102. Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it.
公款如圣水，人人都想尝一嘴。
2103. Rain before seven; fine before eleven.
早雨不过午。
2104. Remember thou are but a man.
记住你只不过是个“人”而已。
2105. Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
革命不是玫瑰香水做成的。
革命不能采取温和的方法。
2106. Roll my log and I’ll roll yours.
相互帮忙。
相互吹嘘。
2107. Satan reproves sin.
魔鬼责人之罪。
2108. Seeing is believing.
百闻不如一见。
2109. Self do, self have.
自作自受。
2110. Sell the bear’s skin before one has caught the bear.
熊未到手先卖皮。
过早乐观。
2111. Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
技能和信心是无敌的军队。
2112. Slow and steady wins the race.
稳扎稳打，无往不胜。
2113. Soft fire makes sweet malt.
文火熬出好麦芽糖。
慢工出细活。
2114. Sorrow comes unsent for.
悲哀来时不须邀。
2115. Speak [Talk] of the devil and he will appear.
说到谁，谁就到。
说到曹操，曹操就到。
2116. Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators.
旁观无观众，运动最轻松。
2117. Talk of the evil, and he is sure to appear.
说到某人，某人就到。
说起曹操，曹操就到。
2118. The best fish smell when they are three days old.
最好的鱼三天也会臭。
久留招人嫌。
2119. The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
要求过高，反难成功。
2120. The end crowns all.
结局好坏决定一切。
2121. The end justifies [sanctifies] the means.
只要目的正当，可以不择手段。
2122. The outsider sees the best of the game.
旁观者清。
2123. There is no accounting for tastes.
人各有所爱。
2124. There is no rule without an exception.
有规则必有例外。
2125. There is small choice in rotten apples.
一筐烂苹果，没啥好拣。
2126. The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
一只烂，烂一筐。
2127. The tongue ever turns to the aching teeth.
舌头总是碰着疼牙。
2128. The wish is father to the thought.
愿望为思想之父。
希望什么，就对什么产生信念。
2129. They that reckon without their host are to reckon twice.
店主不在便结帐，还得结第二次帐。
2130. Things done cannot be undone.
事已定局，不能挽回。
覆水难收。
2131. Things unreasonable are never durable.
不合理的事不会长久。
2132. Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform.
轻易许诺的人，很少践诺。
轻诺寡信。
2133. To know everything is to know nothing.
样样皆通，样样稀松。
2134. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
厨子成群，煮坏肉羹。
2135. Too much liberty spoils all.
自由过了头，一切乱了套。
2136. Too much spoils, too little is nothing.
过多会坏事，过少不济事。
2137. Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
2138. You can’t touch pitch without being defiled.
近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
2139. True praise roots and spreads.
真心的赞扬，根深传远。
2140. Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
欲钓大鱼，先舍小鱼。
2141. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
激动时的誓约，平静时便忘却。
2142. Walls have ears.
隔墙有耳。
2143. Well begun is half done.
良好的开端就等于成功的一半。
2144. Well fed, well bred.
吃得好，懂礼貌。
衣食足而后知礼。
2145. We must not lie, and cry, God help us.
求神不如求己。
2146. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
井干方知水可贵。
2147. Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者，事竟成。
2148. Where the water is shallow, no vessel will ride.
水浅无船行。
2149. Whom the gods love die young.
好人不长寿。
2150. You may [could] go farther and fare worse.
越走得远可能越倒霉。
适可而止。
索  引
（注：括号中的数字为该条谚语在文中的编码）
A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. （570）
A bad husband makes a bad wife. （221）
A bad thing never dies. （1519）
A bad workman quarrels with his tools. （342）
A bald head is soon shaven. （434）
A barking dog is better than a sleeping lion. （1780）
A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock. （1687）
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. （1658）
A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. （1656）
A blate cat makes a proud mouse. （1756）
A blind man cannot judge colours. （436）
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. （435）
A blithe [happy] heart makes a blooming visage. （407）
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity. （1595）
A boaster and a liar are all one. （1619）
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german. （1620）
A body without knowledge is like a house without a foundation. （545）
A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle. （1746）
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. （518）
A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change. （519）
A book that remains shut is but a block. （520）
A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm. （1958）
A brave retreat is a brave exploit. （796）
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. （1959）
A burnt child dreads the fire. （1331）
A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent. （236）
A candle lights others and consumes itself. （1960）
A cat has nine lives. （1757）
A cat may look at a king. （1761）
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. （246）
A chain is no stronger than its weakest lining. （1961）
A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing. （267）
A clean hand wants no washing. （1962）
A close mouth catches no flies. （671）
A cock is bold on his dunghill. （1686）
A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can. （1745）
A constant guest is never welcome. （1963）
A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend. （1938）
A cracked bell can never sound well. （441）
A cracked bell is never sound. （442）
A crafty knave needs no broker. （1540）
A creaking door [gate] hangs long on its hinges. （1964）
A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often. （1675）
A crown is no cure for the headache. （1439）
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. （335）
Actions speak louder than words. （587）
A disease known is half cured. （1089）
A danger foreseen is half avoided. （1965）
A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone. （1781）
A drowning man will catch at a straw. （1645）
A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter. （1690）
Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows. （1906）
Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. （1379）
Adversity is a good discipline. （1380）
Adversity is a good [great] schoolmaster. （1381）
Adversity leads to prosperity. （400）
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. （1378）
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. （1905）
Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory. （948）
A fair death honours the whole life. （1171）
A fair face (but) foul heart. （1420）
A fair face may hide a foul heart. （1433）
A faithful friend is hard to find. （1861）
A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy. （1911）
A false tongue will hardly speak truth. （1621）
A fault confessed is half redressed. （1276）
A fault denied is twice committed. （1277）
Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended. （312）
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom. （929）
A fool always comes short of his reckoning. （1579）
A fool always finds a greater fool than himself. （1582）
A fool always rushed to the fore. （1590）
A fool may give a wise man counsel. （1574）
A fool may put somewhat in a wise man’s head. （1575）
A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose.（1577）
A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark. （1576）
A fool’s heart dances on his lips. （1581）
A forced kindness deserves no thanks. （1441）
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial. （1807）
A friend in court is better than a penny in purse. （1868）
A friend in need is a friend indeed. （1848）
A friend is a second self. （1847）
A friend is best found in adversity. （1853）
A friend is easier lost than found. （1862）
A friend is known in necessity. （1856）
A friend is never known till a man has need. （1855）
A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. （1893）
A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. （1937）
A friend to all is a friend to none. （1876）
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. （1875）
A friend without faults will never be found. （1891）
After a storm comes a calm. （1400）
After death, the doctor. （1157）
After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. （1047）
After meat, mustard. （1966）
A galled horse will not endure the comb. （1742）
A gloved cat catches no mice. （1759）
A golden key can open any door. （974）
A golden key opens every door. （975）
A good beginning is half done. （384）
A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us. （515）
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. （516）
A good dog deserves a good bone. （1776）
A good example is the best sermon. （1967）
A good face is a letter of recommendation. （1432）
A good fame is better than a good face. （935）
A good friend is my nearest relation. （1866）
A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold. （1070）
A good horse often needs a good spur. （1731）
A good husband makes a good wife. （219）
A good Jack makes a good Jill [Gill]. （220）
A good lawyer, an devil neighbour. （727）
A good marksman may miss. （1292）
A good medicine tastes bitter. （1108）
A good name is better than a golden girdle . （937）
A good name is better than gold. （938）
A good name is better than (great) riches. （940）
A good name is easier [soon] lost (than won). （943）
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. （941）
A good name keeps its luster in the dark. （942）
A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about. （953）
A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand. （1101）
A good tale is none the worse for being twice told. （525）
A good tongue is a good weapon. （686）
A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth. （229）
A good wife makes a good husband. （218）
A great ship asks deep waters. （783）
A great talker is a great liar. （1625）
A ground sweat cures all disorders. （1155）
A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. （1826）
Agues come on horseback but go away on foot. （1091）
A guilty conscience feels continual fear. （1491）
A guilty conscience is a self-accuser [a thousand witness]. （1493）
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. （1494）
A guilty conscience never feels secure. （1492）
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning. （537）
A happy heart makes a blooming visage. （1054）
A healthy mind is in a healthy body. （1075）
A heavy purse makes a light heart. （987）
A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings. （1730）
A horse stumbles that has four legs. （1213）
A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats. （1734）
A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness. （231）
A kind word is never lost. （683）
A kite will never be a good hawk. （1674）
A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich. （1197）
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. （1712）
A lazy youth, a lousy age. （374）
Ale will make a cat speak. （1762）
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. （1629）
A lie begets a lie till they come to generations. （1606）
A life without a friend is a life without a sun. （1900）
A light heart lives long. （1052）
A light-heeled mother makes a heavy-heeled daughter. （268）
A light purse makes a heavy heart. （990）
A lion at home, a mouse abroad. （1754）
A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world. （282）
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. （546）
A little labour, much health. （1058）
A little learning is a dangerous thing. （547）
A little neglect may breed great mischief. （1278）
A little pot [pan] is soon hot. （1445）
A living dog is better than a dead lion. （1794）
All are brave when the enemy flies. （1957）
All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives? （1968）
All are not friends that speak us fair. （1889）
All are not saints that go to church. （1436）
All are not thieves that dogs bark at. （1791）
All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws. （1763）
All his geese are swans. （1692）
All flesh is grass. （1141）
All is fair in love and war. （182）
All is fish that comes to his net. （1969）
All is not gain that is put in the purse. （1241）
All is not gold that glitters. （1003）
All is not lost that is in danger. （1226）
All is well that ends well. （1970）
All men are mortal. （1132）
All men must die. （1133）
All roads lead to Rome. （394）
All shall be well, Jack shall have Gill [Jill]. （183）
All that lives must die. （1134）
All things are obedient to money. （976）
All things will come round to him who will but wait.（823）
All time is no time when it is past. （34）
All truth is not always to be told. （676）
All truth is not to be told at all times. （677）
All truths are not (always) to be told. （678）
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. （340）
All your swans are geese. （1691）
A long tongue is a sign of a short hand. （675）
Always taking out the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom. （880）
A maid that laughs is half taken. （121）
A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst. （122）
A man apt to promise is apt to forget. （646）
A man can die but once. （1138）
A man can only die once. （1139）
A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it. （177）
A man is as old as he feels. （1971）
A man is known by his friends （1917）
A man is known by the company he keeps. （1918）
A man [one] is never too old to learn. （348）
A man is not good or bad for one action. （682）
A man may love his house well without riding on the ridge. （1972）
A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool. （1588）
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. （1859）
A man of sense talks little and listens much. （618）
A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds. （680）
A man’s house is his castle. （253）
A man that breaks his words, bids others to be false to him. （647）
A man without a friend is only half a man. （1897）
A merry heart goes all the way. （410）
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. （408）
A mill cannot grind with the water that is past. （73）
A miserly father makes a prodigal son. （270）
A miss is as good as a mile. （1282）
A moneyless person goes fast through the market. （1002）
A mother’s love never changes. （265）
An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet. （1846）
An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag. （1840）
An ass endures his burden, but not more than his burden. （1747）
An evil lesson is soon learned. （1501）
A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman. （1867）
An empty bad cannot stand upright. （564）
An empty barrel makes more noise than a full one. （563）
An enemy’s mouth seldom speaks well. （1939）
An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgiveness must not feel thy sword. （1948）
An Englishman’s home is his castle. （254）
A new broom sweeps clean. （1973）
Anger and haste hinder good counsel.（1447）
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. （1453）
Anger is a short madness. （1448）
Anger punishes itself. （1449）
Anger rests in the bosom of folly. （1454）
Anger rusts intellect so that it cannot discern right from wrong. （1452）
An honest look covereth many faults. （836）
An honest man’s word is as good as his bond. （830）
An honourable death is better than a disgraceful life. （1170）
An hour in the morning before breakfast is worth two all the rest of the day. （27）
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. （28）
A nice wife and a back door will soon make a rich man poor.（223）
An idle brain is the devil’s workshop. （1476）
An idle person is the devil’s cusion. （1477）
An idle soul shall suffer hunger. （1483）
An idle youth, a needy age. （1473）
An ill life, an ill end. （1489）
An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune. （213）
An occasion lost cannot be redeemed. （65）
An old dog bites sore. （1789）
An old dog cannot alter its way of barking. （1790）
An old fox is not easily snared. （1811）
An old physician, and a young lawyer. （728）
An open enemy is better than a hollow friend. （1913）
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. （1387）
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. （1107）
An owl is the king of the night. （1670）
An ox is taken by the horns, and the man by the tongue. （1724）
Answer a fool according to his folly. （1587）
An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup. （1358）
An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men. （725）
A penny soul never came to twopence. （1446）
A penny saved is a penny gained. （849）
A pet lamb makes a cross ram. （269）
A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt. （1208）
Appearance often deceives. （1403）
Appearances are (often) deceptive. （1404）
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. （1534）
A ragged colt may make a good horse. （1736）
A rich man’s joke is always funny. （984）
A rolling stone gathers no moss. （1018）
Art is long, life is short. （1057）
As a man is, so is his company. （1919）
As a man lives, so shall he die. （1125）
As a man’s heart is, so does he speak. （637）
A scalded cat dreads [fears] (even) cold water. （1335）
A scalded dog thinks cold water hot. （1338）
As is the husband, so is the wife. （222）
A small leak will sink a great ship. （1281）
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. （787）
A soft answer turns [turneth] away wrath. （684）
A sound mind in a sound body. （1074）
A spot is most seen on the finest cloth. （1270）
As soon goes the young lamb’s skin to the market as the old ewe’s. （1711）
As the house is to the man, so is the nest to the bird and the cave to the animal. （255）
As the life is, so is the end. （1124）
As the old cock crows, the young (one) learns. （263）
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man. （785）
As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined. （288）
As the wind blows, you must set your sail. （79）
A stitch in time saves nine. （46）
A straw shows which way the wind blows. （1643）
A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane. （1697）
As we sow, so shall we reap. （443）
A table friend is a variable friend. （1884）
A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf. （1827）
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. （413）
At need one sees who his friend is. （1857）
A tree is known by its fruit. （444）
A tree must be bent while it is young. （296）
A true friend is one soul in two bodies. （1850）
A useful trade is a mine of gold. （561）
A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword. （794）
Avarice blinds our eyes. （1974）
Avarice increases with wealth. （994）
A vaunter and a liar are near akin. （1618）
Avoid the ford on which your friend was drowned. （1344）
A wager is a fool’s argument. （1580）
A watched kettle [pot] never boils. （1975）
A watched pot [pan] is long in boiling. （1976）
A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent. （523）
A wicked man is his own hell. （1497）
A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only. （216）
A willful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon. （1528）
A wise head makes a close mouth. （617）
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. （908）
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. （894）
A wise man hears one word and understand two. （891）
A wise man is never less alone than when (he is) alone. （892）
A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks. （899）
A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand. （888）
A wonder lasts but nine days. （1977）
A wooer should open his ears more than his eyes. （217）
A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled. （630）
A word in season is most precious. （660）
A word in time is worth two afterwards. （661）
A word is enough to the wise. （909）
A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart. （689）
A word spoken cannot be recalled. （628）
A word spoken is an arrow let fly. （631）
A word spoken is past recalling. （627）
A work ill done must be twice done. （309）
A worm will turn. （1978）
A young man idle, an old man needy. （1474）
A young man married is a man that’s marred. （207）
A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree. （299）
Bad luck always comes in threes. （1364）
Bad news has wings. （1520）
Bad workmen often blame their tools. （1979）
Bare words, no bargain. （663）
Barking dogs seldom bite. （1782）
Beard the lion in his den. （1834）
Bear with evil and expect good. （815）
Beauty and folly are often companions. （1599）
Beauty is but skin deep. （1416）
Beauty is in the beholder’s eye. （178）
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder [gazer]. （179）
Beauty is potent, but money is more potent. （992）
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. （511）
Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.（180）
Be considerate toward the poor. （1192）
Before gold, even kings takes off their hats. （983）
Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him. （1860）
Beggars must [should] be no choosers. （1121）
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. （238）
Be just to all, but trust not all. （959）
Believe no tales from the enemy. （1940）
Be slow to promise and quick to perform. （648）
Best to bend while ’tis a twig. （298）
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. （606）
Better a glorious death than a shameful life. （1167）
Better an open enemy than a false friend. （1914）
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. （906）
Better be alone than in bad company. （1907）
Better be half hanged than ill wed. （210）
Better be poor than wicked. （1185）
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. （1771）
Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. （1748）
Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry. （1980）
Better be upright and want, than wicked and have abundance. （1505）
Better die standing than live kneeling. （1172）
Better die with honour than live with shame. （1168）
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt. （1203）
Better late than never. （325）
Better lose the saddle than the horse. （1218）
Better master one than engage with ten. （326）
Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose. （655）
Better spare at brim than at bottom. （846）
Better spared than ill spent. （857）
Better spare to have of thine own, than ask of other man. （847）
Better to die in glory than live in dishonour. （1171）
Better to do well than to say well. （588）
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. （1981）
Better without gold than without friend. （1898）
Between friends all is common. （1894）
Between two stools one goes to the ground. （449）
Beware beginnings. （1982）
Beware of a silent dog and still water. （1784）
Beware of him who regards not his reputation. （950）
Big fish eat little fish. （734）
Bind the sack before it is full. （1983）
Birds of a feather flock together. （1657）
Bitter pills may have wholesome effort. （1109）
Black will take no other hue. （1503）
Blood is thicker than water. （271）
Books and friends should be few but good. （512）
Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. （514）
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. （513）
Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. （879）
Bought wit is dear. （927）
Burnt bairns dread the fire. （1333）
Business before pleasure. （376）
Business is business. （334）
Business is the salt of life. （375）
Business makes a man as well as tries him. （377）
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious. （383）
Business neglected is business lost. （379）
Butter to butter is no relish. （453）
By learning you will teaching; by teaching you will learn. （355）
By little and little the wolf eateth the sheep. （1820）
By other’s faults wise men correct their own. （1345）
By the side of sickness health becomes sweet. （1082）
By the street of “Bye-and-bye” one arrives at the house of “Never”. （1984）
Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion. （1985）
Calamity is man’s true touchstone.（1374）
Call no man happy before he is dead. （1161）
Call no man happy before his death [till he dies]. （1162）
Call no man happy till [until] he is dead. （1163）
Care and diligence bring luck. （345）
Care killed the cat.（1986）
Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them. （1708）
Cats hide their paws. （1760）
Charity begins at home, but should not end there. （258）
Cheats never prosper. （1634）
Cheek brings success. （1987）
Children and fools cannot lie. （290）
Children and fools have merry lives. （414）
Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts. （303）
Children are the parents’ riches. （272）
Children are what the mothers are. （261）
Children have the qualities of the parents. （262）
Children learn to creep ere they can go. （281）
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. （215）
Christmas comes but once a year. （6）
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise. （905）
Clothes don’t make the man. （1422）
Clothes make the man. （1426）
Clumsy birds have to start flying early. （1664）
Common sense is not common. （558）
Community of purpose makes friendship. （1932）
Companions are odious. （1988）
Company in distress makes trouble [the sorrow] less. （1210）
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success. （391）
Confidence is a plant of slow growth. （955）
Congenial minds are disposed to associate. （1989）
Constant dropping wears away a stone. （805）
Constant dropping wears the stone. （804）
Content is happiness. （415）
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue. （778）
Cover your head by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can. （1046）
Cowards die often [many times] before their deaths. （1990）
Creditors have better memories than debtors. （1991）
Crows do not pick crow’s eyes. （1677）
Cry up wine and sell vinegar. （1992）
Custom is another nature. （566）
Custom is a second nature. （565）
Custom makes all the things easy. （567）
Custom reconciles us to everything. （568）
Custom rules the law. （569）
Custom without reason is but ancient error. （571）
Cut your coat according to your cloth. （450）
Danger is next neighbour to security. （1993）
Dangers foreseen are the sooner prevented. （1994）
Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares. （306）
Dead men tell no tales. （1159）
Death defies the doctor. （1156）
Death frees us from ills. （1146）
Death is common [sure] to all. （1135）
Death is the grand [great] leveller. （1147）
Death levels all men. （1148）
Death meets us everywhere. （1175）
Death pays all debts [scores]. （1142）
Death quits (all) scores. （1143）
Death spares neither small nor great. （1149）
Death squares all accounts. （1144）
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. （654）
Deeds, not words. （593）
Delays are dangerous.（87）
Deliberate slowly, execute promptly. （336）
Despair gives courage to a coward. （1995）
Desperate diseases must have desperate cures. （1088）
Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp. （1835）
Dexterity comes by experience. （1315）
Diet cures more than doctors [pills]. （1099）
Digging your grave with your own teeth. （1100）
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. （344）
Diligence is the mother of success. （343）
Dirty linen should be washed at home. （248）
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. （1376）
Discretion is the better part of valour. （1996）
Diseases are the price of ill pleasures. （1086）
Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot. （1092）
Diseases enter by the mouth. （1093）
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body. （1112）
Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee. （323）
Do as the Romans do. （575）
Do as you would be done by. （696）
Do business, but be not a slave to it. （378）
Doing is better than saying. （590）
Do in Rome as Rome does. （577）
Do in Rome as the Romans do. （576）
Dog does not eat dog. （1768）
Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand. （1783）
Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread. （1773）
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. （1679）
Do not despise your enemy. （1942）
Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail. （1774）
Do not halloo till [until] you are out of the wood(s). （1997）
Do not hold a candle to the devil. （1527）
Don’t judge by appearance. （1405）
Don’t judge men or things at first sight. （1411）
Don’t let the grass grow under your feet. （95）
Don’t look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains. （1413）
Don’t make any noise while you work, but use your brain. （594）
Don’t put off till tomorrow what should be done today. （49）
Don’t put off what you can do today till tomorrow. （50）
Don’t put the cart before the horse. （1998）
Do not run too fast after gain. （1242）
Do not sell the bear’s skin before you have caught the bear. （1845）
Don’t swap horses when crossing a stream. （1738）
Don’t trifle away your time. （97）
Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty. （1184）
Don’t throw away the apple because of the core. （1051）
Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. （1999）
Do not wash your dirty linen in public. （247）
Doubt is the key of knowledge. （542）
Drawn wells are seldom dry. （318）
Drunken days have all their tomorrows. （100）
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. （245）
Dying is as natural as living. （1136）
Each bird likes to hear himself sing. （1654）
Each man has his limitations. （1251）
Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. （1671）
Early wed, early dead. （204）
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. （1041）
Easier said than done. （595）
Easy come, easy go. （1025）
East or west, home is best. （237）
Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him. （956）
Eat to live, but not live to eat. （1114）
Economy is itself a great income. （859）
Economy is the easy chair of old age. （861）
Economy the poor man’s mints; extravagance the rich man’s pitfall. （868）
Either win the horse or lose the saddle. （1233）
Empty hands no hawk allure. （1672）
Empty vessels make the greatest sound. （1442）
Enough is as good as a feast. （1050）
Even Homer sometimes nods. （1271）
Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak. （1459）
Envy ceaseth after death. （1455）
Envy never dies. （1456）
Envy never enriched any man. （1457）
Envy shoots at others and wounds herself. （1458）
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. （1616）
Even Homer sometimes nods. （1271）
Even reckoning makes long friends. （1864）
Every advantage has its disadvantage. （472）
Every bean has its black. （1260）
Every bird likes its own nest (best). （241）
Everybody has his merits and faults. （1254）
Everybody has some weak spot. （1255）
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business. （382）
Every brave man is a man of his word. （626）
Every cloud has a silver lining. （471）
Every cook praises his own broth. （1550）
Every country has its customs. （574）
Every couple is not a pair. （187）
Every dog has his day. （1793）
Every dog is a lion at home. （1769）
Every dog is allowed his first bite. （1275）
Every dog is valiant at his own door. （1770）
Every failure one meets with adds to one’s experience. （1325）
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard. （250）
Every heart knows its own bitterness. （1207）
Every horse thinks his sack heaviest. （1739）
Every Jack has his Jill. （184）
Every Jack must [shall] have his Jill [Gill]. （185）
Every law has a loophole. （723）
Every little makes (a mickle). （866）
Every man has a fool in his sleeve. （1572）
Every man has his humour. （2000）
Every man has his own habit. （576）
Every man has his liking. （465）
Every man has his weak side. （1256）
Every man has the defects of his own virtues [his qualities]. （1253）
Every man hath [has] his faults. （1252）
Every man is a fool sometimes, and none at all times. （1573）
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. （402）
Every man thinks his own things best. （1551）
Every mechanism has its reverse. （2001）
Every miller draws water to his own mill. （2002）
Every mother breeds not sons alike. （279）
Every mother thinks her child beautiful. （274）
Every mother’s child is handsome. （273）
Every one’s faults are not written in their foreheads. （1283）
Every rose has its thorn. （1641）
Every shoe fits not every foot. （467）
Everything comes to him who waits. （824）
Everything has its time. （66）
Everything has its time and that time must be watched. （67）
Everything hath an end. （469）
Everything is good for something. （458）
Everything is good when new, but friends when old. （1896）
Everything must have a beginning. （468）
Every tide hath ebb.（82）
Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful. （1702）
Every why has a wherefore. （476）
Every wise man dreadeth his enemy. （889）
Evil (be) to him who evil thinks. （1504）
Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches. （1510）
Evil communications corrupt good manners. （1516）
Evil weed is soon grown. （1498）
Evil [Ill] will never said well. （1529）
Example is better than precept. （2003）
Experience does it. （1309）
Experience is a long way. （1311）
Experience is a school from which you can never graduate. （1323）
Experience is sometimes dangerous. （1329）
Experience is the best teacher. （1308）
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother. （1314）
Experience is the fruit of the tree of errors. （1328）
Experience is the mistress of fools. （1318）
Experience is the mother [father] of knowledge. （1312）
Experience is the mother [father] of wisdom. （1313）
Experience is the teacher of fools. （1319）
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other. （1322）
Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly. （1324）
Experience must be bought. （1327）
Experience teaches. （1310）
Experience teaches fools. （1320）
Experience teaches fools, and he is a great one that will not learn by it. （1321）
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience. （1317）
Extremes meet. （2004）
Facts are stubborn (things). （432）
Facts speak louder than words.（653）
Failure in a great enterprise is at least a noble fault. （1248）
Failure is the mother of success. （1244）
Failure is the only high-road to success. （1247）
Failure teaches success. （1245）
Faint heart never won fair lady. （791）
Fair without but foul within. （1419）
Fair words and foul deeds cheat wise men as well as fools. （695）
Fair words butter no parsnips. （650）
Fair words fill not the belly. （664）
Fair words will not fill the belly. （665）
Fair words will not make the pot play. （667）
Falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. （174）
False friends are worse than bitter enemies. （1912）
False friends are worse than open enemies. （1910）
Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it. （1615）
False with one can be false with two. （1444）
Fame is a magnifying glass. （932）
Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off. （933）
Familiarity breeds contempt. （2005）
Fanned fires and forced love never did well yet. （191）
Far from eye far from heart. （2006）
Fasting is the best medicine. （1098）
Fat hens lay few eggs. （1682）
Faults are thick while love is thin. （167）
Feed a cold and starve a fever. （1111）
Feed sparingly [by measure] and defy the physician. （1096）
Few words to the wise suffice. （910）
Few words are best. （605）
Few words, many deeds. （586）
Fine clothes make the man. （1427）
Fine feathers do not make fine birds. （1423）
Fine feathers make fair fowls. （1429）
Fine feathers make fine birds. （1430）
Fine words dress ill deeds. （697）
Finished labours are pleasant. （315）
Fire and water are [may be] good servants, but bad masters. （483）
Fire and water have no mercy. （480）
Fire is the test of gold, adversity of friendship. （1933）
First catch your hare then cook him. （1802）
First come, first served. （2007）
First impressions are half the battle. （2008）
First think, and then speak. （598）
Fish begins to stink at the head. （2009）
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. （156）
Follow pleasure and it will flee thee; flee pleasure and it will follow thee. （416）
Folly is an incurable disease. （1597）
Fool’s haste is no speed. （1585）
Fools have the best luck. （1571）
Fools have fortune. （1570）
Fools learn nothing from wise men; but wise men learn much from fools. （897）
Fools look to tomorrow, and wise men use tonight. （896）
Fools never know when they are well. （1589）
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. （1591）
Fools will be meddling. （1592）
For a lost thing care nothing. （1221）
Forbidden fruit is sweet. （2010）
Force can never destroy right. （729）
Forced love does not last. （192）
Fortune favours fools. （1568）
Fortune favours the bold. （1351）
Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept. （403）
Fortune is variant. （1356）
Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s door. （1352）
Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her. （826）
Four eyes see more than two. （915）
Friends agree best at a distance. （1926）
Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight. （1888）
Friends are thieves of time. （1927）
Friends [The best of friends] must part. （1921）
Friendless is the dead. （1902）
Friendship cannot stand always on one side. （1930）
Friendship should not be all on one side. （1931）
Friendship is like wine—the older the better. （1934）
From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance. （619）
From saving comes having. （845）
From words to deeds is a great space. （596）
Frugality is an estate alone. （858）
Frugality when all is spent comes too late. （877）
Gain got by a lie will burn one’s fingers. （1636）
Gifts from the enemies are dangerous. （1941）
Give a dog a bad name and hang him. （1795）
Give a fool enough rope [rope enough] and he will hang himself. （1598）
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. （1396）
Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard. （2011）
Give never the wolf the wether. （1821）
Glory is the shadow of virtue. （774）
God defend [deliver] me from my friends; from my enemies I can [will] defend myself. （1909）
God helps those who help themselves. （2012）
God sends fortune to fools. （1569）
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. （2013）
God’s mill grinds slow but sure. （708）
Golden words offend the ears. （2014）
Gold will not buy anything. （998）
Good company on the road is the shortest cut. （1871）
Good counsel never comes amiss.（2015）
Good fame is better than a good face. （936）
Good health is above wealth. （1066）
Good name is gold worth. （939）
Good wine needs no bush. （2016）
Good wits jump (together). （913）
Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools. （694）
Good words are worth much and cost little. （2017）
Gossiping and lying go together. （1617）
Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark. （1042）
Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly. （1681）
Grasp all, lose all. （1217）
Great boasters, little doers. （624）
Great boast, small roast. （623）
Great braggers, little doers. （625）
Great designs require great consideration. （2018）
Great hopes make great men. （399）
Great men are not always wise. （919）
Great men have great faults. （1301）
Great men’s sons seldom do well.（277）
Great minds think alike. （914）
Great talkers are little doers. （674）
Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure. （418）
Guilty consciences always make people [men] cowards. （1535）
Habits cures habit. （575）
Habit is a cable: we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. （577）
Habit is (a) second nature. （572）
Half a loaf is better than no bread. （455）
Half a tale [word] is enough for a wise man. （911）
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. （420）
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. （1060）
Happiness takes no account of time. （37）
Happy is he that is happy in childhood. （283）
Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth. （404）
Happy is he who owes nothing. （1194）
Hard cases make bad law. （724）
Hardships never come alone. （1365）
Harm set, harm get. （2019）
Haste makes waste. （2020）
Haste love, soon cold. （125）
Hasty climbers have sudden falls. （2021）
Hatred is blind as well as love. （111）
Have but few friends, though many acquaintances. （1873）
Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today. （55）
Hawks will not pick hawk’s eyes out. （1674）
Health and strength is above all gold. （1071）
Health does not consist with intemperance. （1085）
Health is a jewel [treasure]. （1068）
Health is better than wealth. （1065）
Health is great riches. （1069）
Health is happiness. （1059）
Health is not valued till sickness comes. （1078）
Health surpasses riches. （1067）
Hear all parties. （2022）
Hear much, speak little. （607）
Hear twice before you speak once. （609）
Heaven’s vengeance is slow but sure. （709）
He bears misery best who hides it most. （816）
He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue. （583）
He cries wine and sells vinegar. （1633）
He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist. （1578）
He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not. （893）
He is a gentle horse that never cast his rider. （1733）
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs. （1865）
He is a wise man who speaks little. （614）
He is in his better blue clothes. （1552）
He is lifeless that is faultless. （1272）
He is the wise man who is the honest man. （885）
He is the wisest man who does not think himself so. （882）
He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs. （907）
He is wise that is ware in time. （886）
He is wise that knows when he’s well enough. （884）
He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others. （1346）
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. （2023）
He knows most who [that] speaks least. （615）
He knows not what love is that has no children. （285）
He laughs best who laughs last. （2024）
He lives long that lives well. （1053）
He lives twice who lives well. （1117）
Hell is paved with good intentions.（2025）
He looks like a saint but the devil he is. （1437）
He loses all who loses the moment. （74）
Help the dog over the stile.（1792）
He measures another’s corn by his own bushel. （2026）
He never lies but when the holly is green. （1611）
He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil. （1943）
He that boasts of his knowledge proclaims his ignorance. （1563）
He that can have patience, can have what he will. （818）
He that can stay obtains. （819）
He that climbs high falls heavily. （1567）
He that dallies with enemy gives him leave to kill him. （1946）
He that desires honour is not worthy of honour. （934）
He that dies pays all (debts). （1145）
He that doth most at once doth least. （341）
He that endures is not overcome. （820）
He that falls today may be up again tomorrow. （811）
He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. （1204）
He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy. （1045）
He that has [hath] been bitten by a serpent, is afraid of a rope. （1340）
He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend. （1883）
He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. （234）
He that hath no children, knows not what is love. （284）
He that hath time hath life. （1120）
He that helpeth the evil hurteth the good. （1526）
He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion. （99）
He that is down, down with him. （1383）
He that is full of himself is very [quite] empty. （1561）
He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody. （2027）
He that is one born, once must die. （1126）
He that knows nothing, doubts nothing. （544）
He that learns a trade [an art] has a purchase made. （350）
He that lies down [sleeps] with dogs must rise up with fleas. （1916）
He that lives ill, fear follows him. （1536）
He that lives long suffers much.（1122）
He that liveth in court dieth upon straw. （1154）
He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly. （1174）
He that marries for wealth, sells his liberty. （203）
He that mischief hatches, mischief catches. （2028）
He that never rode never fell. （437）
He that nothing questions nothing learns. （352）
He that once deceives is ever suspected. （1637）
He that regards not a penny, will lavish a pound. （876）
He that returns good for evil obtains the victory. （760）
He that saves his dinner will have the more for his supper. （873）
He that soweth virtue shall reap fame. （773）
He that spares the bad injures the good. （1525）
He that spares the rod, hates his son. （295）
He that sups with the devil must have a long spoon. （2029）
He that talks much, errs much. （585）
He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business. （381）
He that trusts in a lie shall perish in truth. （1632）
He that will have a hare to breakfast must hunt overnight. （1801）
He that will have his farm full, must keep an old cock and a young bull. （1688）
He that will lie will steal. （1627）
He that will not work shall not eat. （327）
He that will swear, will lie. （1624）
He that will take the bird must not scare it. （1662）
He that will thrive must rise at five. （1040）
He that would eat [have] the fruit must climb the tree. （1648）
He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut. （447）
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens. （1377）
He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin. （124）
He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. （1118）
He who avoids temptation avoids the sin. （1530）
He who does not gain loses. （1224）
He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself. （214）
He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work. （1044）
He who does not work neither shall he eat. （1472）
He who has burnt his mouth blows his soup. （1334）
He who has done ill once will do it again. （1508）
He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick. （1796）
He who has no shame has no conscience. （1537）
He who hath good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing. （1073）
He who hesitates is lost. （89）
He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none. （1562）
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning. （351）
He who is born a fool is never cured. （1596）
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight. （2030）
He who laughs best laughs last. （2031）
He who lives near the woods is not frightened by owls. （790）
He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing. （1273）
He who never was sick dies the first (fit). （1102）
He who questions nothing learns nothing. （353）
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. （1832）
He who risks nothing, gains nothing. （801）
He who shareth honey with the bear hath the least part of it. （1843）
He who talks much of his happiness summons grief. （427）
He who teaches, learn. （356）
He who trusteth not is not deceived. （1638）
He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot. （1753）
He who was never sick dies the first fit. （1103）
He who will not learn when he is young will regret it when he is old. （373）
He who will not keep a penny shall never have money. （875）
He who will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay. （70）
He who wills success is half way to it.（386）
He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet. （2032）
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. （2033）
He will shoot higher who shoots at the moon [sun] than he who aims at a tree. （448）
He wots not whether he bears the earth, or the earth him. （1553）
Hide nothing from thy physician. （1105）
History repeats itself. （2034）
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. （80）
Hold fast when you have it. （1216）
Home is home, be it never so homely. （239）
Home is home, though (it be) never so homely. （241）
Home is where the heart is. （256）
Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all. （208）
Honesty is the best policy. （828）
Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth. （831）
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. （463）
Honour and profit lie not in one sack. （945）
Honours change manners. （951）
Honour to whom honour is due. （946）
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. （2035）
Hot love is soon cold. （126）
Human pride is human weakness. （1546）
Humility is the beginning of wisdom. （837）
Humility often gains more than pride. （842）
Hunger breaks stone walls. （2036）
Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods. （1825）
Hunger is the best sauce. （1202）
Hunger knows no friend. （1903）
Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. （1772）
Idle folks have the least leisure. （1468）
Idle folks lack no excuses. （1479）
Idle young, needy age [old]. （1475）
Idleness is the key of beggary. （1466）
Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice]. （1463）
Idleness is the parent of all vice. （1464）
Idleness is the root of all evil. （1462）
Idleness is the rust of mind. （1487）
Idleness makes the wit rust. （1488）
Idleness rusts the mind. （1486）
Idleness turns the edge of wit. （1485）
Idle people [folks] have the most labour [take the most pains]. （1467）
If a donkey brays at you, don’t bray at him. （1752）
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. （257）
I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts. （1438）
If I have lost the ring, yet the fingers are still here. （1219）
If one sheep leap over the dyke, all the rest will follow. （1704）
If the beard were all, the goat might preach. （1701）
If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work. （1478）
If the hen does not prate, she will not lay. （1683）
If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. （2037）
If the old dog barks, he gives counsel. （1788）
If the ox falls, whet your knife. （1728）
If the sky falls, we shall catch larks. （1668）
If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be true. （762）
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality. （41）
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. （1944）
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. （2038）
If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you. （1354）
If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully. （2039）
If you don’t enter a tiger’s den, you can’t get his cubs. （802）
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. （1799）
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. （1722）
If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die. （957）
If you venture nothing, you will have thing. （800）
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. （533）
If you want peace, prepare for war. （747）
If you wish for peace, be prepared for war. （748）
If you would have a thing well done, do it yourself. （310）
If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again. （1955）
Ignorance of the law excuses no man [one]. （714）
Ignorance of the law is no excuse of breaking it. （715）
Ill air slays sooner than the sword. （2040）
Ill comes often on the back of worse. （1507）
Ill deeds cannot honour. （699）
Ill-gotten gain [goods] never prosper. （1031）
Ill gotten [got] ill spent. （1029）
Ill-gotten, ill spent. （1030）
Ill gotten money is soon spent. （1032）
Ill-gotten wealth never thrives. （1033）
Ill news comes [travels] apace. （1521）
Ill news flies [travels] fast. （1522）
Ill news never comes too late. （2041）
Ill weeds are sure to thrive. （1499）
Ill weeds grow apace [fast]. （1500）
Imagination is more important than knowledge. （559）
Imagination will span the gap in our knowledge. （560）
In an enemy spots are soon seen. （1956）
In appearance place no trust. （1417）
In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages. （524）
In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another. （228）
In doing we learn. （358）
Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left. （346）
In every country dogs bite. （1785）
In for a penny, in for a pound. （313）
In peace prepare for war. （749）
In sickness health is known. （1080）
In the grave the rich and poor lie equal. （1151）
In the kingdom of blind men, the one-eyed is king. （2042）
In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty. （1882）
In vino veritas. （634）
In wine there is truth. （635）
Interest will not lie. （1631）
Into a shut mouth flies fly not. （672）
Is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. （212）
It is a blind silly goose that comes to the fox’s sermon. （1695）
It is a dirty [foolish] bird that fouls [soils] its own nest. （242）
It is a fairy wood that has never a withered bough in it. （1269）
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor. （1713）
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.（622）
It is a good horse that never stumbles. （1732）
It is a good horse that never stumbles; and a good wife that never grumbles. （1295）
It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none. （1296）
It is a good workman that never blunders.  (918)
It is a long lane that has no turning. （439）
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. （958）
It is an evil sign to see a fox lick a lamb. （1805）
It is an ill bird that fouls [soils] its own nest. （243）
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. （1235）
It’s a poor [sad] heart that never rejoices. （405）
It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. （233）
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. （1593）
It is a skillful technician that never blunders. （1297）
It is a small flock that has not a black sheep. （1715）
It is as natural to die as to be born. （1137）
It is a wise father that knows his own child. （291）
It is a wise man that makes no mistakes. （1299）
It is a wise man that never makes mistakes. （1230）
It is better to be alone than in ill company. （1908）
It is better to be a martyr than a confessor. （2043）
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. （1173）
It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy. （948）
It is better to do well than to say well. （589）
It is better to play with the ears than the tongue. （608）
It is better to please a fool than to anger him. （1584）
It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable. （426）
It is easier to get money than to keep it. （1019）
It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him. （2044）
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others. （827）
It is easy to be wise after the event. （922）
It’s easy to swim if another holds up your head. （2045）
It is good to beware by other men’s harm. （1347）
It is good to have friends in trouble. （1870）
It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. （1869）
It is good to learn at another man’s cost. （368）
It is good to marry late or never. （205）
It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well. （307）
It is hard to sit in Rome and strive against the Pope. （738）
It is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope. （739）
It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil. （338）
It is love that makes the world go round. （160）
It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf. （1824）
It is never too late to mend. （1304）
It is never too old to learn. （349）
It is no good [use] crying over spilt milk. （2046）
It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in another’s. （1684）
It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride. （843）
It is not every couple that is a pair. （188）
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion. （1838）
It is not only the feather that makes the bird. （1424）
It is not the gay coat that makes the (fine) gentleman. （1421）
It is not the hood that makes the monk. （1415）
It is not work that kills, but worry. （321）
It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently. （656）
It is right to put everything in its proper use. （337）
It is said that a cat hath nine lives, yet care would wear them all out. （1764）
It is the bridle and spur that make a good horse. （1744）
It is the man behind the gun that tells. （740）
It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool preserves in the error. （1268）
It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. （535）
It is to easy bear the misfortunes of others. （827）
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past. （75）
It is too late to husband [spare] when all is spent. （878）
It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen. （90）
It is too late to shut the stable door after the horse has been stolen. （91）
It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen. （92）
It never rains but it pours. （2047）
It takes two to make a quarrel. （464）
I will be thy friend, but not thy vice’s friend. （1890）
Jack is as good as his master. （2048）
Jack of all trades and master of none. （2049）
Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours. （417）
Joy puts heart into a man. （411）
Joys shared with others are more enjoyed. （412）
Judge not a book by its cover. （522）
Judge not according to the appearance. （1408）
Judge not of men and thing at first sight. （1412）
Justice has a long arm. （706）
Justice has long arms. （707）
Justice must be done even if the sky falls. （730）
Keeping is harder than winning. （395）
Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. （610）
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. （611）
Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. （1696）
Kill two birds with one stone. （1659）
Kings and bears often worry keepers. （1844）
Kings have long arms [hands]. （737）
Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing. （2050）
Knavery may serve, but honesty is best. （829）
Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps. （534）
Knowledge is a Treasure, but Practice is the key to it. （530）
Knowledge is no burden [burthen]. （531）
Knowledge (itself) is power. （527）
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. （536）
Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud. （532）
Knowledge starts with practice. （528）
Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist. （529）
Know thyself [yourself]. （839）
Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs. （1288）
Labour is light where love doth pay. （141）
Lack of work brings a thousand diseases. （1090）
Laugh, and the world will laugh with you. （406）
Law is a bottomless pit. （722）
Law makers should not be law breakers. （713）
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catches small flies, but let wasps and horns break through. （719）
Laws catch flies and let hornets go free. （718）
Laws go as kings like. （703）
Lazy folks [people] have the least leisure. （1471）
Lazy folks [people] have the most labour. （1470）
Lazy folks [people] take the most pains. （1469）
Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own. （1348）
Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit. （539）
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse. （538）
Learn wisdom by the follies of others. （369）
Learn young, learn fair. （366）
Least said, soonest mended. （601）
Let beggars match with beggars. （224）
Let no grass grow under your feet. （96）
Let not your tongue cut your throat. （621）
Let patience grow in your garden always. （821）
Let sleeping dog lie. （1787）
Liars begin by imposing upon others but end by deceiving themselves. （1608）
Liars have need of good memories. （1612）
Liars need long memories. （1613）
Liars should [ought to] have good memories. （1614）
Lies have short [no] legs. （1605）
Life begins at forty. （2051）
Life is lifeless without health. （1083）
Life is not all beer and skittles. （1039）
Life is sweet. （1035）
Life without friend is death. （1901）
Light come, light go. （1214）
Lightly gain, quickly lost. （1215）
Like attracts [draws to] like. （2052）
Like author, like book. （2053）
Like begets like. （2054）
Like cures like. （2055）
Like father, like son. （259）
Like knows like. （2056）
Like likes like. （2057）
Like master, like man. （2058）
Like mother, like daughter. （260）
Like tree, like fruit. （1647）
Little chips light great fires. （2059）
Little pitchers have long ears. （292）
Little said is soon amended. （602）
Little said, soonest mended. （603）
Little strokes fell great oaks. （803）
Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. （720）
Little wealth, little care. （1021）
Live and learn. （347）
Live and let live. （1116）
Live not to eat, but eat to live. （1115）
Live within your means and save for a rainy day. （870）
Loners are losers. （1250）
Long absent, soon forgotten. （2060）
Long looked for comes at last. （825）
Long tarrying takes all thanks away. （2061）
Look before you leap. （612）
Lookers-on see most of the game. （2062）
Lose an hour in the morning, and you’ll be all day hunting for it. （29）
Lose an hour in the morning, and you’ll spend all day looking for it. （30）
Losers are always in the wrong. （1249）
Losses make us more cautious. （1211）
Lost time is never found again. （33）
Love and a cough cannot be hid. （105）
Love and lordship like no fellowship. （116）
Love and lordship never like fellowship. （117）
Love, and love only, is the loan for love. （140）
Love as in time to come you should hate, and hate as you should in time to come, love. 165）
Love asks faith, and faith firmness. （118）
Love at first sight. （119）
Love begets love. （101）
Love blinds a man to imperfections. （109）
Love can neither be bought nor sold. （129）
Love can neither be bought or sold; its only price is love. （130）
Love cannot be compelled.（103）
Love cannot be forced. （104）
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. （135）
Love is a sweet torment. （113）
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly. （114）
Love is blind. （108）
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. （110）
Love is full of trouble. （112）
Love is never paid but with true love. （139）
Love is never without jealousy. （181）
Love is not to be found in the market. （128）
Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end. （158）
Love is the mother of love. （102）
Love is the reward of love. （137）
Love is the touchstone of virtue. （115）
Love is the true price of love. （138）
Love is without reason. （107）
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. （134）
Love makes all hard hearts gentle. （142）
Love makes a wit of the fool. （143）
Love makes obedience easy. （144）
Love makes one fit for any work. （145）
Love makes the world go round. （161）
Love me, love my dog. （1767）
Love needs no teaching. （106）
Love not at the first look. （120）
Love should not be all on one side. （155）
Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks.（176）
Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended. （175）
Love rules his kingdom without a sword. （136）
Love sought is good, but give unsought is better. （157）
Love will creep where it may not go. （133）
Love will find a way. （131）
Love will find out the way. （132）
Love will not yield to all the might of wealth. （163）
Lying is the first step to the gallows. （1622）
Lying rides upon debt’s back. （1623）
Mad dog bites his master. （1786）
Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything. （123）
Make hay while the sun shines. （81）
Make your enemy your friend. （1954）
Man is a god or a devil to his neighbour. （2063）
Man is mortal. （1130）
Man is to man either a god or a wolf. （1829）
Man proposes, God disposes. （2064）
Many a good cow hath a bad calf. （1726）
Many a good father hath but a bad son. （278）
Many a little makes a mickle. （864）
Many a one says well that thinks ill. （679）
Many a pickle makes a muckle. （865）
Many a slip [Many things fall] between the cup and the lip. （1237）
Many a true word is spoken in jest. （632）
Many dishes, many diseases. （1094）
Many good cows have evil calves. （1725）
Many friends in general, one in special. （1874）
Many hands make light work. （333）
Many hands make quick work. （332）
Many [Two] heads are better than one.  （916）
Many lords, many laws. （701）
Many lords, many laws; much law, little justice. （702）
Many men have many minds. （2065）
Many wells, many buckets. （2066）
Many words cut [hurt] more than swords. （690）
Marriage comes by destiny. （194）
Marriage goes by contrasts. （189）
Marriage is destiny. （195）
Marriage is a lottery. （186）
Marriage makes or mars a man. （197）
Marriages are made in heaven. （193）
Marry a wife of thine own degree. （190）
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure. （198）
Marry in lent, and you’ll live to repent. （201）
Marry thy like. （196）
Marry too soon, and you’ll repent too late. （199）
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can. （308）
Measure for measure. （2067）
Measure thrice before you cut once. （2068）
Medicines are not meant to live on. （1110）
Men are mortal. （1131）
Men are not to be measured by [in] inches. （1409）
Men live like fish, the great ones devour the small. （1123）
Men too seldom see their own faults. （1290）
Men’s characters are not always written on their foreheads. （1410）
Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people. （1496）
Merry is he that hath nought to lose. （1238）
Merry meet, merry part. （1925）
Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged. （753）
Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse. （1741）
Mickle power makes many enemies. （1949）
Might is right. （731）
Might overcomes right. （732）
Mills and wives are ever wanting. （227）
Mischief has swift wings. （1386）
Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by the ounce. （1367）
Misery loves company. （2069）
Misery makes strange bedfellows. （1904）
Misfortune is a good teacher.  （1372）
Misfortunes come at night. （1357）
Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot. （1368）
Misfortunes never [seldom] come alone [single]. （1359）
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. （1355）
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. （1854）
Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs. （2070）
Money begets money. （965）
Money borrowed is soon sorrowed. （1205）
Money breeds money. （966）
Money can buy the devil himself. （971）
Money can move even the gods. （972）
Money could not buy happiness. （1000）
Money does not grow on tree. （1004）
Money draws money. （967）
Money gets money.（968）
Money has no smell. （995）
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience and truth may be drowned. （1015）
Money is a good servant, but a bad master. （1012）
Money isn’t everything. （999）
Money is round, and rolls away. （1026）
Money is the key that opens all doors. （973）
Money is the root of evil. （1009）
Money is the sinews of war. （1011）
Money is wise, it knows its way. （1027）
Money lost, little lost; time lost, everything lost. （43）
Money makes a man free everywhere. （980）
Money makes a man welcome everywhere. （981）
Money makes the mare [to] go.（970）
Money recommends a man everywhere. （982）
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. （1007）
Money talks. （979）
Money will do anything. （978）
Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with. （969）
More haste, less speed. （2071）
Most things have two handles. （477）
Mother’s darlings are but milksop heroes. （301）
Much thinking yields wisdom. （923）
Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of. （1038）
Muck and money go together. （1016）
Multitude of years should teach wisdom. （925）
Music is the eye of the ear. （2027）
My son is my son till he hath got him a wife; but my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life. （304）
Nature abhors a vacuum. （459）
Naughty boys sometimes make good men. （293）
Necessity is the mother of invention. （2073）
Neither fish nor flesh. （2074）
Neither fish nor good red herring. （2075）
Never be weary of well doing. （758）
Never cackle till your egg is laid. （1689）
Never cast your pearls before swine. （1698）
Never challenge a fool to do wrong. （1586）
Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today. （48）
Never do things by halves. （314）
Never hang a man twice for one offenece. （1541）
Never judge from appearances. （1406）
Never judge people by their appearance. （1407）
Never offer to teach fish to swim. （2076）
Never put off till tomorrow what can [may] be done today. （51）
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. （52）
Never think yourself above your business. （380）
Never too late to mend. （1303）
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. （2077）
Never trust another what you should do yourself. （962）
Never trust to fine words. （961）
New lords [kings], new laws. （700）
Nobody but has his faults. （1265）
Nobody is without faults. （1266）
No cross, no crown. （1206）
No fence against (an) ill fortune. （1370）
No fence against (for) ill fortune. （1371）
No fool like an old fool. （1603）
No fool to the old fool. （1604）
No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot. （1886）
No gains without pains. （329）
No good building without a good foundation. （1513）
No great loss but some small profit. （1227）
No great loss without some small gain. （1228）
No herb will cure love. （1113）
No joy without alloy [annoy]. （423）
No living man all things can. （479）
No love is foul, no prison fair. （162）
No man can call again yesterday. （40）
No man can do two things at once. （2078）
No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. （451）
No man ever became thoroughly bad all at once. （2079）
No man is born wise. （881）
No man is content. （2080）
No man is indispensable. （1263）
No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself. （841）
No man is wise at all times. （920）
No man [one] is without his faults. （1264）
No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold. （452）
No mill, no meal. （328）
None but the brave deserves the fair. （792）
None of us are infallible. （1267）
None so deaf as those who won’t hear. （2081）
No news is good news. （2082）
No one can call back yesterday. （38）
No one wise at all times. （921）
No pains, no gains.（330）
No pleasure without pain. （421）
No road is long with good company. （1872）
No root, no fruit. （1650）
No rose without a thorn. （1640）
No smoke without some fire. （474）
No song, no supper. （331）
Not all butter that the cow yields. （1718）
Not everyone can succeed. （398）
Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it. （440）
Nothing endures but truth. （494）
Nothing is a greater misfortune than not being able to bear misfortune. （1373）
Nothing is dearer to a man than a friend in need. （1849）
Nothing is difficult to the man who will try. （781）
Nothing is ever done in a hurry. （2083）
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. （2084）
Nothing is stolen without hands. （2085）
Nothing so certain [sure] as death. （1127）
Nothing succeeds like success. （387）
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. （1186）
Nothing venture, nothing have [gain, win]. （797）
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. （798）
Nothing worse than a familiar enemy. （1952）
No time like the present. （21）
Not to say well, but to do well. （591）
Nought venture, nought have [gain, win]. （799）
No vice goes alone. （1506）
No way is impossible to courage. （780）
Now for it! （23）
No wisdom like silence. （1393）
No words can be the disguise of base intentions. （698）
Now or never! （24）
No wrong without remedy.（1532）
Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. （756）
Of all war(s), peace is the end. （752）
Of evil grain, no good seed can come. （1515）
Of idleness comes no goodness. （1465）
Of saving, comes having. （856）
Of soup and love, the first is the best. （159）
Often and little eating makes a man fat. （1049）
Old acquaintances will soon be remembered. （1920）
Old bees yield no honey. （1651）
Old birds are not caught with new nets. （1663）
Older and wiser. （2086）
Old foxes want no tutors. （1810）
Old friends and old wine are best. （1895）
Old habits die hard. （579）
Old love will not be forgotten. （151）
Old oxen have stiff horns. （1723）
Old use and wont legs about the fire. （580）
Old vessels must leak. （2087）
Old wood is best to burn, old book to read. （521）
Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride. （1735）
Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs. （2088）
Once a devil, always a devil. （1539）
Once a knave, ever a knave. （1538）
Once a use, for ever a custom. （574）
Once bit [bitten] twice shy. （1330）
Once is no custom. （581）
Once is no rule. （582）
One barking dog sets all the streets barking. （1779）
One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. （302）
One butcher does not fear many sheep. （1709）
One careless move loses the whole game. （1234）
One chick keeps a hen busy. （275）
One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. （2089）
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. （1953）
One enemy [foe] is too many; and a hundred friends too few. （1951）
One enemy is too much. （1950）
One false move may lose the game. （1279）
One false step will make a great difference. （1280）
One father can support ten children, ten children cannot support one father. （276）
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. （264）
One flower makes no garland. （1639）
One foot is better than two crutches. （433）
One good turn deserves another. （759）
One hand washes another [the other]. （2090）
One hour today is worth two tomorrow. （26）
One law for the rich, and another for the poor. （721）
One lie makes [calls for] many. （1609）
One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it. （1610）
One lining broken, the whole chain is broken. （2091）
One love drives out another. （169）
One love expels another. （170）
One mail drives out another. （2092）
One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the hedge. （2093）
One man’s fault is another man’s lesson. （1349）
One mischief [misfortune] comes on the neck of another. （1362）
One misfortune calls up another. （1360）
One misfortune rides upon another’s back. （1361）
One never loses anything by politeness. （1229）
One of these days is none of these days. （54）
One penny with right is better than a thousand without right. （834）
One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock. （1705）
One sheep follows another. （1703）
One should not run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. （1800）
One sin opens the door for another. （1509）
One swallow does not make a summer. （1665）
One’s words reflect one’s thinking. （638）
One today is worth two tomorrows. （25）
One who never made a mistake, never made anything. （1302）
One woe doth tread upon another’s heels. （1363）
Only that which is honestly got is gain. （1240）
Only the good die young. （1164）
Opportunities do not wait. （62）
Opportunity seldom knocks twice. （61）
Oppression maketh a wise man mad. （2094）
Other people’s defects are good teachers. （1350）
Other times, other manners. （571）
Our own actions are our security, not others’ judgements. （681）
Out of debt, out of danger. （1209）
Out of sight, out of mind. （2095）
Pain is forgotten where gain follows. （2096）
Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. （1005）
Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. （1524）
Patience and application will carry us through. （813）
Patience is a flower that grows not in every one’s garden. （822）
Patience is a virtue. （812）
Patience is the plaster of all sores. （814）
Patient men win the day. （817）
Peace with sword in hand, ’Tis safest making. （746）
Pen and ink is wit’s plough. （887）
Penny and penny, laid up, will be many. （854）
Penny wise and pound foolish. （883）
People are more convinced by words than by blows. （685）
People do not know the blessing of health till they lose it. （1079）
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. （810）
Perseverance is the only road to success. （807）
Pigs may fly, but they are very unlikely birds. （1699）
Pitchers have ears. （2097）
Pity is a level for quickening love. （173）
Pleasant hours fly past. （36）
Please one’s eye and plague one’s heart. （431）
Pleasure has a sting in its tail. （419）
Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup. （1440）
Poor and content is rich and rich enough. （1183）
Poor and liberal, rich and covetous. （1198）
Poor but honest. （832）
Poor folk [men] are fain of little. （1199）
Poor without debt is better than a prince. （1193）
Pouring oil on the fire is no way to quench it. （481）
Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows. （1878）
Poverty and love are hard to hide. （1187）
Poverty breeds strife. （1188）
Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace. （1180）
Poverty is no disgrace. （1181）
Poverty is no sin. （1178）
Poverty is not a crime. （1177）
Poverty is not a disgrace, but theft is a disgrace. （1179）
Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself, is a disgrace. （1182）
Poverty is the mother of health. （1176）
Poverty is the reward of idleness. （1482）
Poverty makes a man mean. （1190）
Poverty makes strange bedfellows. （1879）
Poverty on an old man’s back is a heavy burden. （1191）
Poverty parteth fellowship. （1189）
Poverty tries friends. （1877）
Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all. （1196）
Practice makes perfect. （2098）
Praise is not pudding. （2099）
Praise no man till he is dead. （1128）
Prefer loss to unjust gain. （1243）
Prevention is better than cure. （1106）
Pride and grace dwell never in one place. （1555）
Pride feels [finds] no cold. （1557）
Pride goes before a fall. （1542）
Pride goes before, and shame follows after. （1548）
Pride goes before destruction. （1543）
Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. （1547）
Pride is the mask of one’s own faults. （1560）
Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. （1558）
Pride must be pinched. （1556）
Pride never left his master without a fall. （1545）
Pride that apes humility. （1559）
Pride will have a fall. （1544）
Procrastination is the thief of time. （86）
Promises are like piecrust, made to be broken. （2100）
Promise is debt. （2101）
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. （1887）
Prove thy friend ere thou have need. （1881）
Providence is always on the side of the big [strongest] battalions. （736）
Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it. （2102）
Punctuality is the politeness of kings. （85）
Punctuality is the soul of business. （84）
Push generally succeeds in business. （390）
Put two halfpennies [pennies] in a purse, and they will draw together. （855）
Put your shoulder to the wheel. （319）
Questioning is the door of knowledge. （543）
Quietness is best. （1401）
Rain before seven; fine before eleven. （2103）
Remember thou are but a man. （2104）
Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault. （952）
Revolutions are not made with rosewater. （2105）
Rewards allure men to brave danger. （788）
Riches and virtue do not often keep each other company. （1017）
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. （1006）
Riches are the root of all evil. （1010）
Riches bring care and fear. （1022）
Riches do not always bring happiness. （1001）
Riches either serve or govern the possessor. （1013）
Riches have wings. （1024）
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. （1014）
Roll my log and I’ll roll yours. （2106）
Rome was not built in a day. （808）
Sadness and gladness succeed each other. （425）
Satan reproves sin. （2107）
Save money against a rainy day. （872）
Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. （862）
Saving is getting. （844）
Say well is good, but do well is better. （592）
Saying and doing are two things. （657）
Saying is one thing and doing another. （658）
Scanderbeg’s sword must have Scanderbeg’s arm. （795）
Science has no enemy but the ignorant. （557）
Science is organized knowledge. （556）
Second thoughts are best. （613）
Seeing is believing. （2108）
Seize the present day, trusting the morrow as little as may be. （56）
Seize time by the forelock. （76）
Self do, self have. （2109）
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. （963）
Self trust is the first secret of success. （392）
Sell the bear’s skin before one has caught the bear. （2110）
Shallow streams make most din. （487）
Short accounts make long friends. （1863）
Short acquaintance brings repentance. （1923）
Short pleasure, long lament. （428）
Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief. （1628）
Sickness is felt, but health not at all. （1081）
Sickness shows us what we are. （1087）
Silence does seldom harm. （1394）
Silence gives [means] consent. （1391）
Silence is golden, but speech is silver [silvern]. （1389）
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. （1392）
Silence is the best ornament of a woman. （1398）
Silly [=Good] child is soon ylered [=taught]. （289）
Six feet of earth makes all men equal. （1150）
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. （2111）
Skill is no burden. （562）
Sloth is the key of [to] poverty. （1481）
Sloth turneth the edge of wit. （1484）
Slow and steady wins the race. （2112）
Small gains bring great wealth. （867）
Soft fire makes sweet malt. （2113）
Soft words are hard arguments. （668）
So many countries, so many customs. （573）
So many men, so many minds.（466）
Something is better than nothing. （457）
Sometimes gain is to lose. （1220）
Sometimes words hurt more than swords. （688）
Soon learnt, soon forgotten. （370）
Sooner or later, the truth comes to light. （498）
Soon ripe, soon rotten. （446）
Sorrow comes unsent for. （2114）
Sound love is not soon forgotten. （150）
Spare the rod and spoil the child. （294）
Spare when you’re young, and spend when you’re old. （863）
Sparing is a great revenue. （860）
Speak [Talk] of the devil and he will appear. （2115）
Speak without thinking is shooting without aiming. （599）
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. （600）
Speech is silver [silvern], (but) silence is gold [golden]. （1388）
Speech is the index of the mind. （639）
Speech is the picture of the mind. （640）
Speech shows what a man is. （641）
Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend. （871）
Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators. （2116）
Step by step the ladder is ascended. （809）
Still waters run deep. （1397）
Stolen pleasures are sweet [sweetest]. （429）
Stolen waters are sweet. （430）
Stone dead [Stone-dead] has no fellow. （1160）
Straws show which way the wind blows. （1642）
Stretch your arm no farther than your sleeve will reach. （869）
Strike the iron while it is hot. （78）
Strike while the iron is hot. （77）
Study sickness while you are well. （1077）
Success belongs to the persevering. （388）
Successful crime is called virtue. （401）
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. （396）
Success has many friends. （397）
Success is never blamed. （393）
Table friendship soon changes. （1885）
Take a hair of the dog that bit you. （1533）
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. （853）
Take honour from me and my life is done. （944）
Take time when time cometh, lest time steal away. （72）
Talking mends no holes. （651）
Talk much, and err much. （670）
Talk of the evil, and he is sure to appear. （2117）
Teaching others teaches yourself. （357）
Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. （1566）
Temperance is the best physic. （1097）
That’s good wisdom which is wisdom in the end. （931）
That trial is not fair where affection is the judge. （726）
That which is evil is soon learnt. （1502）
The belly is not filled with fair words. （666）
The best [greatest] fish keep [swim near] the bottom. （1399）
The best fish smell when they are three days old. （2118）
The best go first. （1165）
The best hearts are always the bravest. （779）
The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching. （1743）
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good. （2119）
The best man stumbles. （1293）
The best mirror is an old friend. （1851）
The best of friends must part. （1922）
The best of us can make mistakes. （1294）
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman. （1095）
The best workman sometimes blunders. （1298）
The bird loves her nest. （1653）
The bird that can sing and won’t sing must be made to sing. （1655）
The black ox has trod on his foot. （1727）
The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame. （1564）
The braying of an ass does not reach heaven. （1750）
The burnt child fears the fire. （1332）
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. （209）
The cat and dog may kiss, yet are none the better friends. （1765）
The chief aim of man is not to get money. （997）
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. （287）
The child is father of the man. （286）
The coat [garment, tailor] makes the man. （1428）
The course of true love never did run smooth. （149）
The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it. （1720）
The cow that’s first up gets the first of the dew. （1716）
The crow thinks his own bird fairest. （1676）
The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at Midsummer, and then goes away. （1667）
The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor. （1200）
The darkest hour is that before the dawn. （470）
The day is short but the work is much. （44）
The dead don’t bite.（1158）
The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. （1822）
The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow. （1339）
The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the wolf. （1706）
The end crowns all. （2120）
The end justifies [sanctifies] the means. （2121）
The end makes all equal. （1152）
The evil [evils] we bring on ourselves are the hardest to bear. （1531）
The evil wound is cured but not the evil name. （1523）
The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue. （230）
The face is no index to the heart. （1425）
The face is no index of heart [mind]. （1431）
The father buys, the son bigs, the grandchild sells, and his son thigs. （280）
The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle. （1751）
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. （1740）
The fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong man. （784）
The first blow is half the battle. （385）
The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice. （775）
The first wealth is health. （1062）
The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age. （1600）
The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught. （1660）
The fox is known by his brush. （1815）
The fox may grow grey, but never good. （1803）
The fox smells his own stink first. （1812）
The fox’s wiles will never enter the lion’s head. （1809）
The fox that had lost its tail would persuade others out of theirs. （1816）
The friend is known in the time of difficulty. （1858）
The good or ill hap of a good or ill wife. （211）
The good seaman is known in bad weather. （786）
The greater the crime, the higher the gallows. （712）
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. （164）
The greatest liars talk most of themselves. （1626）
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. （1291）
The greatest talkers are always the least doers. （673）
The great fish eat up the small. （733）
The ground-work of all happiness is health. （1061）
The habit [cowl, hood] does not make the monk. （1414）
The handsomest flower is not the sweetest. （1434）
The head is recognized by the tongue. （642）
The healthful man can give counsel to the sick. （1076）
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. （148）
The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar. （833）
The joy of the heart makes the face merry. （409）
The kettle calls the pot black. （1286）
The last drop makes the cup run over. （485）
The law is not the same at morning and at night. （705）
The least said the better. （604）
The least said, the soonest mended. （1395）
The leopard can never change its spots. （1831）
The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb. （1707）
The lion is known by his claws [paws]. （1836）
The lion is not so fierce as he is painted. （1839）
The lion’s skin is never cheap. （1837）
The living man who does not learn is dark, dark like one walking in the night. （367）
The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf. （1819）
The longest day must have an end. （1375）
The longest pole knocks the most persimmons. （735）
The love that is too violent will not last long. （127）
The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues. （1518）
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. （1274）
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. （71）
The mills of God grind slowly. （710）
The money the miser hoards will do him no good. （996）
The more noble the more humble. （838）
The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is. （1583）
The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house. （235）
The morning sun never lasts a day. （5）
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. （840）
The mother’s breath is aye sweet. （266）
The mountains have brought forth a mouse. （1755）
The noisy fowler catches no bird. （1661）
The old goose plays not with foxes. （1808）
The outsider sees the best of the game. （2122）
The ox is never woe, till he to the harrow go. （1717）
The ox when weariest treads surest. （1719）
The path to glory is always rugged. （782）
The poor man wants much, the miser everything. （1195）
The pot calls the kettle black. （1285）
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. （669）
The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood. （1842）
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. （1236）
There are faults from which none of us is [are] free. （1284）
There are no birds of this year in last year’s nests. （57）
There are spots (even) in [on] the sun. （1261）
There are two sides to every question. （478）
There is a black sheep in every flock. （1714）
There is a crook [an affliction, a trial] in the lot of every one. （1382）
There is always something to be cut off young trees if they are to grow well. （300）
There is a skeleton in every house. （251）
There is a skeleton in the cupboard. （252）
There is a tide in the affairs of men. （60）
There is a time for all things. （67）
There is a time for everything. （68）
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. （1390）
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. （507）
There is great difference between word and deed. （597）
There is many a fair thing full false. （1630）
There is many a true word spoken in jest. （633）
There is more danger from a pretended friend than from an enemy. （1915）
There is no accounting for tastes. （2123）
There is no better looking-glass than an old friend. （1852）
There is no end to learning. （361）
There is no escape [flying] from fate. （1369）
There is no fool like an old fool. （1601）
There is no fool to the old fool. （1602）
There is no friend so faithful as a good book. （517）
There is no greater riches than health. （1064）
There is no joy without alloy. （424）
There is no man but errs. （1257）
There is no man but has his faults. （1258）
There is no man without faults. （1259）
There is no medicine against death. （1129）
There is no place like home. （244）
There is no pleasure without pain. （422）
There is no pot so ugly that it can’t find a lid. （225）
There is no royal road to learning. （360）
There is no rule without an exception. （2124）
There is no satiety in study. （362）
There is no smoke without fire. （475）
There is nothing permanent except change. （460）
There is no time like the present. （22）
There is no time to lose. （63）
There is no trusting to appearance. （1418）
There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not. （776）
There is no wealth above the wealth of health. （1063）
There is no wheat without chaff. （456）
There is small choice in rotten apples. （2125）
There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world’s trade.（1036）
The reward of suffering is experience. （1326）
The rich never want for kindred. （985）
The rotten apple injures its neighbours. （2126）
The scalded cat fears cold water. （1336）
The scalded dog fears cold water. （1337）
The sea has fish for every man. （59）
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. （389）
The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE. （848）
The shortest answer is doing the thing. （324）
The sleeping fox catches no poultry. （1804）
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. （1565）
The snail slides up the tower at last though the swallow mounteth it sooner. （1666）
The swan sings when death comes. （1693）
The tail does often catch the fox. （1814）
The thread breaks where it is weakest. （438）
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. （540）
The tiger that has once tasted blood is never sated with the taste of it. （1833）
The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none. （692）
The tongue ever turns to the aching teeth. （2127）
The tongue is not made of steel, yet it cuts. （687）
The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. （693）
The tongue of idle persons is never idle. （1480）
The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping. （1798）
The tree is known by its [his] fruit. （445）
The tree must be bent while it is young. （297）
The true university of these days is a collection of books. （526）
The truth is always green. （495）
The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know. （510）
The truth will out. （499）
The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound. （835）
The used key is always bright. （317）
The valiant never tastes of death but once. （789）
The weakest goes to the wall. （1246）
The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. （1008）
The wife is the key of the house. （226）
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. （890）
The wise man is always a good listener. （917）
The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all. （904）
The wish is father to the thought. （2128）
The wolf and fox are both privateers. （1817）
The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature. （1818）
The words once spoken can never be recalled. （629）
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down. （1037）
The worse luck now, the better another time. （1353）
They that do nothing learn to do ill. （1511）
They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen. （200）
They that reckon without their host are to reckon twice. （2129）
They who cannot do as they would, must do as they can. （322）
They [People] who live in glass houses should not throw stones. （1289）
They who live longest will see most. （1121）
Things are seldom what they seem. （1435）
Things done cannot be undone. （2130）
Things past cannot be recalled. （42）
Things unreasonable are never durable. （2131）
Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare. （58）
Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform. （2132）
Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. （993）
Those who eat best and drink best often do worst. （1512）
Those whom the gods love die young. （1166）
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. （1607）
Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out. （509）
Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings. （1680）
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small. （711）
Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion. （1945）
Thrift is a great revenue. （850）
Thrift is good revenue. （851）
Thrift is the philosopher’s stone. （852）
Time and tide wait for no man. （3）
Time cures all things. （14）
Time dissolves all things. （19）
Time flies. （1）
Time heals all wounds. （15）
Time is a great healer. （11）
Time is money. （2）
Time is the best healer. （12）
Time is the great physician. （13）
Time lost cannot be recalled. （35）
Time marches on. （4）
Time past cannot be called back again. （32）
Times change. （18）
Time tames the strongest grief. （10）
Time tries all (the things). （7）
Time tries truth. （8）
Time will show [tell]. （9）
Time works great changes. （17）
Time works wonders. （16）
’Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly. （1594）
’Tis the early bird that catches the worm. （1652）
To ask well is to know much. （354）
To a wise man one word is enough. （912）
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. （750）
To be virtuous is to do good. （757）
To deceive oneself is very easy. （1635）
To Err is Humane. （1262）
To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three. （45）
To know everything is to know nothing. （2133）
Tomorrow comes never. （20）
Too many cooks spoil the broth. （2134）
Too much knowledge makes the head bald. （552）
Too much liberty spoils all. （2135）
Too much pudding will choke a dog. （1775）
Too much spoils, too little is nothing. （2136）
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. （372）
To save time is to lengthen life. （83）
To say is one thing; to do is quite another. （659）
Touch pitch, and you will be defiled. （2137）
Tread on a worm and it will turn. （473）
Troubles never comes singly. （1366）
True friendship is like sound health, the value of which is seldom known until it be lost. （1935）
True friendship lasts forever. （1928）
True love is giving, not taking.（146）
True love never grows old. （153）
True love shows itself in time of need. （152）
True praise roots and spreads. （2139）
Trust not a great weight to a slender thread. （960）
Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy. （1936）
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. （964）
Truth and roses have thorns about them. （506）
Truth fears no colours. （490）
Truth has no answer. （492）
Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes. （503）
Truth is a lion. （493）
Truth is the daughter of time. （497）
Truth lies [is] at the bottom of a well. （500）
Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed. （508）
Truth needs no colours. （504）
Truth never grows old. （496）
Truth’s best ornament is nakedness. （505）
Truth shines in the dark. （491）
Truth will out, even if buried in a golden coffin. （501）
Truth will prevail [conquer]. （489）
Try your friend ere you trust him. （1880）
Two blacks do not make a white. （1305）
Two dogs strive for a bone, the third runs away with it. （1778）
Two of a trade seldom [never] agree. （1460）
Two is company, (but) three is none. （232）
Two negatives make an affirmative. （461）
Two of a trade can never agree. （1461）
Two wrongs don’t make a right. （1306）
Union is strength. （488）
Unkindness destroys love. （172）
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit. （662）
Use is (a) second nature. （573）
Vain glory blossoms but never bears. （1443）
Vanity is the food of fools. （954）
Venture a small fish to catch a great one. （2140）
Vice rules where gold reigns. （1517）
Virtue and courtesy go hand in hand. （771）
Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. （772）
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man. （777）
Virtue is a jewel of great price. （766）
Virtue is beyond price. （767）
Virtue is fairer far than beauty. （768）
Virtue is her [its] own reward. （764）
Virtue is the only true nobility. （763）
Virtue is to herself the best reward. （765）
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. （769）
Virtue never grows old. （770）
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. （2141）
Walls have ears. （2142）
War is death’s feast. （741）
War is the sport of kings. （742）
War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. （743）
Wash your dirty linen at home. （249）
Waste not, want not. （874）
Water afar quencheth not fire. （482）
Wealth is best known by want. （991）
Wealth is easier gained than guided. （1020）
Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it. （989）
Wealth is nothing without health. （1072）
Wealth is the test of a man’s character. （988）
Wealth makes worship. （986）
Wealth of words is not eloquence. （584）
Weapon bode [breed] peace. （751）
We are not born for ourselves. （1119）
We die but once. （1140）
Wedlock is a padlock. （206）
Weeds want no sowing. （1644）
We knows not what is good until we have lost it. （1212）
We learn not at school, but in life. （359）
We lose in hake, but gain in herring. （1232）
Well begun is half done. （2143）
Well fed, well bred. （2144）
We must not lie, and cry, God help us. （2145）
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. （2146）
We see not what is in the wallet behind. （1287）
We shall lie all alike in our graves. （1153）
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault. （1892）
We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favour received. （761）
What can’t be cured must be endured. （1104）
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. （311）
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave [tomb]. （364）
What is learned in the cradle lasts [is carried] till [to] the grave [tomb]. （363）
What is lost in the hundred will found in the shire. （1230）
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. （1694）
What is soon learnt is soon forgotten. （371）
What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy? （1023）
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. （339）
What’s lost is lost. （1222）
What the heart thinks the tongue speaks. （636）
What the king wills, that the law wills. （704）
What we lose in hake we shall have in herring. （1231）
What youth is used to, age remembers. （572）
When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink. （1797）
When a man is going down-hill, everyone will give him a push. （1384）
When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears. （1450）
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. （1451）
When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you. （64）
When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. （1554）
When Greek meet Greek, then comes the tug of war. （754）
When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. （755）
When guns speak it is too late to argue. （745）
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. （578）
When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind. （1034）
When love puts in, friendship is gone. （154）
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. （171）
When pride rides, shame lacqueys. （1549）
When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest. （1048）
When the calf is stolen, the farmer mends the stall. （94）
When the cat’s away, the mice will play. （1758）
When the fox preacheth, then beware your geese. （1806）
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth. （643）
When the horse is stolen, (you) lock the stable door. （93）
When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace. （1669）
When the tree is fallen, every one runs to it with his axe. （1385）
When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage. （1766）
When the well is full, it will run over. （484）
When the wolf grows old, the crows ride him. （1830）
When war begins, then hell openeth. （744）
When you are at Rome, do as Rome does. （579）
When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. （580）
Where drums beat, laws are silent. （717）
Wherever an ass falleth, there will he never fall again. （1749）
Where love fails, we espy all faults. （166）
Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the ravens be gathered together. （1678）
Where the deer is slain, some of her blood will lie. （1841）
Where there are reeds, there is water. （1646）
Where there is a will, there is a way. （2147）
Where there is life, there is hope. （1055）
Where the water is shallow, no vessel will ride. （2148）
While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none. （1777）
While you trust to the dog, the wolf slips into the sheepfold. （1823）
Who holds the purse rules the house. （977）
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl. （1828）
Who knows most, says [speaks] least. （616）
Who loses liberty loses all. （1239）
Who makes everything right must rise early. （1043）
Who marrieth for love without money, hath good nights and sorry days. （202）
Whom a serpent has bitten a lizard alarms. （1341）
Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard. （1342）
Whom an adder bites, dreads a lizard. （1343）
Whom the gods love die young. （2149）
Whom we love best to them we can say least. （147）
Who repairs not his gutter repairs his whole house. （47）
Who shows mercy to an enemy denies it to himself. （1947）
Whoso learns young, forgets not when he is old. （365）
Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow. （1495）
Who waits for time, loses time. （98）
Wickedness does no go altogether unrequited. （1490）
Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. （486）
Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand. （548）
Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it. （551）
Wisdom is better than gold or silver. （549）
Wisdom is more to be envied than riches. （550）
Wisdom is only found in truth. （502）
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. （553）
Wise men are silent; fools talk. （902）
Wise men become wiser as they grow older, ignorant men more ignorant. （903）
Wise men change their minds; fools never do. （895）
Wise men have their mouth in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth. （901）
Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own. （898）
Wise men love truth, whereas fools shut it. （900）
Wit bought is better than wit taught. （928）
Without a friend, the world is wilderness. （1899）
Without confidence there is no friendship. （1929）
Without health life is no life. （1084）
Without learning, without eyes. （541）
Without respect, love cannot go far. （168）
With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin. （806）
Wit once bought is worth twice taught. （1316）
Wits are wealth. （924）
Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit. （930）
Woe to him that is alone. （1402）
Wonders are many, and nothing is more wonderful than man. （462）
Words are but wind. （649）
Words are the voice of the heart. （644）
Words are the wise man’s counters and the fool’s money. （620）
Words cut [hurt] more than swords. （691）
Words pay no debts. （652）
Work bears witness who does well. （320）
Work makes the workman. （316）
Work today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. （53）
Would you know your daughter, see her in company. （305）
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. （1924）
Wrong laws make short governance. （716）
Wrong never comes right. （1307）
Years bring wisdom. （926）
Yesterday will not be called again. （39）
You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest friend. （793）
You can have no more of the fox than the skin. （1813）
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake. （454）
You cannot have two forenoons in the same day. （31）
You cannot lose what you never had. （1223）
You cannot make a crab walk straight. （578）
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. （1700）
You cannot see the wood for trees. （1649）
You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk. （1721）
You can’t touch pitch without being defiled. （2138）
You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. （1737）
You have no goats, and yet you sell kids. （1710）
You may delay, but time will not. （88）
You may [could] go farther and fare worse. （2150）
You may know the horse by his harness. （1729）
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. （1225）
Young cocks love no coops. （1685）
Young saints, old devils. （1514）
Your conversation is the mirror of your thoughts. （645）
Your father’s honour is to you but a second-hand honour. （949）
Your money burns (a hole) in your pocket. （1028）
Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. （554）
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. （555）