英語諺語詞典

英語諺語詞典作者：王福禎 英語諺語詞典王福禎1．時間?機會 1. Time flies. 光陰似箭。　　時光易逝。　　 2. Time is money. 　　時間就是金錢。　　一寸光陰一寸金。　　 3. Time and tide wait for no man. 歲月無情。　　時不待人。　　 4. Time marches on. 　　時光永不回頭。　　 5. The morning sun never lasts a day. 　　好景不常在。　　 6. Christmas comes but once a year. 　　聖誕一年只一度。　　 7. Time tries all (the things). 　　時間檢驗一切。　　 8. Time tries truth. 　　時間檢驗真理。　　 9. Time will show [tell]. 　　日久自明。　　10. Time tames the strongest grief. 　　時間能安撫極度的悲痛。　　11. Time is a great healer. 　　時間是最好的醫生。　　時間是治癒精神創傷的良藥。　　12. Time is the best healer. 13. Time is the great physician. 　　時間是最好的醫生。　　14. Time cures all things. 　　時間能治癒一切。　　15. Time heals all wounds. 　　時間可以治癒一切創傷。　　16. Time works wonders. 　　時間可以創造奇蹟。　　17. Time works great changes. 　　時間可以使萬物發生巨變。　　18. Times change. 　　時代在變。　　19. Time dissolves all things. 　　時間消融一切。　　時間使一切事物難以永存。　　20. Tomorrow comes never. 　　切莫依賴明天。　　21. No time like the present. 22. There is no time like the present. 　　大好時機在眼前。　　眼下時間最寶貴。　　23. Now for it!　　現在就干。　　此時不幹，更待何時？　　24. Now or never. 　　機不可失，時不再來。　　此時不幹，更待何時？　　25. One today is worth two tomorrows. 　　一個今天勝似兩個明天。　　26. One hour today is worth two tomorrow. 　　今天一個小時抵得上明天兩個小時。　　27. An hour in the morning before breakfast is worth two all the rest of the day. 　　早飯前一小時抵得上其他時間的兩小時。　　一日之計在於晨。　　28. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.　　早晨一小時抵得上晚間的兩小時。　　一日之計在於晨。　　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.　　早晨損失一小時，一天時間來彌補。　　一日之計在於晨。　　31. You cannot have two forenoons in the same day. 　　人不能在一日之內有兩個早晨。　　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. 　　時光一去不復返。　　歲月既往，不可復追。　　36. Pleasant hours fly past. 　　快樂時光去如飛。　　37. Happiness takes no account of time. 　　歡娛不惜時光逝。　　38. No one can call back yesterday. 39. Yesterday will not be called again.　　昨日不復來。　　逝去的光陰不復還。　　40. No man can call again yesterday. 　　無人能喚回昨天。　　光陰一去不復返。　　41. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality. 　　如果時間是最寶貴的，那麼浪費時間便是最大的浪費。　　一寸光陰一寸金，寸金難買寸光陰。　　42. Things past cannot be recalled. 　　過去的事情無可挽回。　　43. Money lost, little lost; time lost, everything lost. 　　失去金錢，損失很小；失去時間，失去一切。　　44. The day is short but the work is much. 　　工作多，時光迫。　　45. To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three. 　　事事及時做，一日勝三日。　　46. A stitch in time saves nine. 　　一針及時省九針。　　一針不補，十針難縫。　　47. Who repairs not his gutter repairs his whole house. 　　檐溝失修，全屋大修。　　小洞不補，大洞難堵。　　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.　　今日事今日畢，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，明日可能障礙多。　　54. One of these days is none of these days. 　　「總有一天」就是「總沒一天」。　　「改天再干」就是「永遠不幹」。　　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鳥。　　時過境遷。　　58. Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare. 　　充分利用時間的人，沒有空閑。　　珍惜光陰者無暇時。　　59. The sea has fish for every man. 　　海中有魚，人人可取。　　人人都有獲利的機會。　　60. There is a tide in the affairs of men. 　　凡事皆有機運。　　人生都有機運。　　61. Opportunity seldom knocks twice. 　　機遇很少敲兩次門。　　機不可失，時不再來。　　62. Opportunities do not wait. 　　機遇不等人。　　63. There is no time to lose. 　　機不可失。　　64. When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you. 　　機不可失，時不再來。　　65. An occasion lost cannot be redeemed. 　　錯過機會，無法挽回。　　機不可失，時不再來。 66. Everything has its time. 67. There is a time for all things. 68. There is a time for everything. 　　萬物皆有時。　　物當其時，各有佳期。　　69. Everything has its time and that time must be watched. 　　萬物皆有時，時來不可失。　　機不可失，時不再來。　　70. He who will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay. 　　有機會時他不幹，他想干時機會完。　　機不可失，時不再來。　　過了這個村，遇不到這個店。　　71. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 　　逝去的水不能使磨輪轉動。　　機不可失，時不再來。　　72. Take time when time cometh, lest time steal away. 　　時來要惜時，時去無聲息。　　73. A mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 　　逝去的流水驅動不了磨盤。　　水去無還，磨盤不轉。 74. He loses all who loses the moment. 　　錯過機會便錯過一切。　　抓不住機會就會失去一切。　　75. It is too late to grieve when the chance is past. 　　失去良機，悔之晚矣。　　76. Seize time by the forelock. 　　抓住時機。　　機不可失，時不再來。　　77. Strike while the iron is hot. 78. Strike the iron while it is hot. 　　趁熱打鐵。　　79. As the wind blows, you must set your sail. 　　趁風啟帆。　　80. Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. 　　風順便扯帆。 81. Make hay while the sun shines. 　　曬草要趁太陽好。　　82. Every tide hath its ebb. 　　潮漲必有潮落時。　　83. To save time is to lengthen life. 　　節約時間就是延長生命。　　84. Punctuality is the soul of business. 　　守時為事業的靈魂。　　85. Punctuality is the politeness of kings. 　　守時乃國王之禮。　　守事非常重要。　　86. Procrastination is the thief of time. 　　拖延就是浪費時間。　　87. Delays are dangerous. 　　拖拖拉拉是危險的。　　拖延誤事。　　88. You may delay, but time will not. 　　人拖時不拖。　　歲月不待人。　　89. He who hesitates is lost. 　　猶豫不決者坐失良機。　　遲疑失良機。　　當斷不斷，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. 　　失馬鎖廄，為時已晚。　　賊去關門，為時已遲。　　94. When the calf is stolen, the farmer mends the stall. 　　牛被盜後修牛圈。　　亡羊補牢。 95. Don』t let the grass grow under your feet. 96. Let no grass grow under your feet. 　　莫讓腳下青草叢生。　　莫虛度光陰。　　莫讓年華似水流。　　97. Don』t trifle away your time. 　　莫虛度光陰。　　莫讓年華似水流。　　98. Who waits for time, loses time. 　　坐待時機，就會失去時機。　　99. He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion. 　　存心要搗亂，不怕沒機會。　　100. Drunken days have all their tomorrows. 　　今宵酒醉，明朝受罪。　　今朝大魚大肉，明日必吃苦頭。2．愛情?婚姻101. Love begets love.102. Love is the mother of love. 　　愛愛相生。　　情生情，愛生愛。　　103. Love cannot be compelled. 104. Love cannot be forced. 　　愛情不能強迫。　　105. Love and a cough cannot be hid. 　　愛情和咳嗽不能隱瞞。　　106. Love needs no teaching. 　　愛情不需教導。　　107. Love is without reason. 　　愛情無理智。　　108. Love is blind. 　　愛情是盲目的。　　情人眼裡出西施。　　109. Love blinds a man to imperfections. 　　愛情使人看不見缺點。　　110. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. 　　愛情是盲目的，情侶們往往看不見他們自己所犯下的愚蠢錯誤。　　111. Hatred is blind as well as love. 　　愛情和仇恨，二者皆盲目。　　112. Love is full of trouble. 　　愛情充滿了煩惱。　　113. Love is a sweet torment. 　　愛情是一種甜蜜的痛苦。　　114. Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly. 　　愛情是可愛的虐政，情人們甘願受此痛苦的折磨。　　115. Love is the touchstone of virtue. 　　愛情是美德的試金石。　　116. Love and lordship like no fellowship. 117. Love and lordship never like fellowship.　　愛要獨佔，權要獨攬。 118. Love asks faith, and faith firmness. 　　愛情要求信任，信任要求堅定。　　119. Love at first sight. 　　一見傾心。　　120. Love not at the first look. 　　不要一見鍾情。　　121. A maid that laughs is half taken. 　　少女笑口開，婚事成一半。　　122. A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst. 　　有許多人向她求婚的少女，常常選中最差的一人。　　123. Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything. 　　未婚女子只要夫，有夫之後要一切。　　124. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin. 　　要想贏得女兒歡心，必須先從母親著手。　　125. Haste love, soon cold. 　　愛得匆忙冷得快。　　126. Hot love is soon cold. 　　愛得熱，冷得快。　　127. The love that is too violent will not last long. 　　狂熱的愛不會持久。　　128. Love is not to be found in the market. 　　愛情在市場上找不到。　　129. Love can neither be bought nor sold. 　　愛情不能買賣。　　130. Love can neither be bought or sold; its only price is love. 　　愛情不能買賣，愛的價值唯有愛。　　131. Love will find a way. 132. Love will find out the way. 　　愛情自會尋出路。　　愛之所至，金石為開。　　133. Love will creep where it may not go. 　　愛總是盡其所能。　　134. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. 　　愛情不分貧富。　　135. Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. 　　愛情可化茅廬為金殿。　　136. Love rules his kingdom without a sword. 　　愛情的王國毋須刀劍來統治。　　137. Love is the reward of love. 138. Love is the true price of love. 　　愛是愛的回報。　　愛情的真正價值在於愛。　　139. Love is never paid but with true love. 　　愛情需用真愛換。　　140. Love, and love only, is the loan for love. 　　愛情宿債，唯愛能還。　　141. Labour is light where love doth pay. 　　愛情付報酬，勞苦也輕鬆。　　142. Love makes all hard hearts gentle. 　　愛情可軟化一切冷酷之心。　　143. Love makes a wit of the fool. 　　愛情可使傻瓜變聰明。　　傻瓜有愛情，也會變聰明。　　144. Love makes obedience easy. 　　愛情使順從成為易事。　　145. Love makes one fit for any work. 　　愛情使人適應任何工作。　　146. True love is giving, not taking. 　　真正的愛情是給予，不是索取。　　147. Whom we love best to them we can say least. 　　人們對最愛的人所能說的話最少。　　148. The heart that once truly loves never forgets. 　　真正的愛情永遠不變心。　　149. The course of true love never did run smooth. 　　愛情之路無坦途。　　150. Sound love is not soon forgotten. 　　堅固的愛情不會頃刻忘懷。　　151. Old love will not be forgotten. 　　舊情難忘。　　152. True love shows itself in time of need. 　　患難方顯真情在。　　153. True love never grows old. 　　真情永不老。　　真情永不渝。　　154. When love puts in, friendship is gone. 　　愛情介入，友情完結。　　155. Love should not be all on one side. 　　愛情不應該是單方面的。　　156. Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. 　　追求愛情它高飛，逃避愛情它跟隨。　　157. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 　　求得的愛情固然美好，但未經追求而得到的愛情更美好。　　158. Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end. 　　愛情是先甜後酸。　　159. Of soup and love, the first is the best. 　　愛情和湯水，初嘗最鮮美。　　160. It is love that makes the world go round. 161. Love makes the world go round. 　　愛情使世界轉動。　　162. No love is foul, nor prison fair. 　　沒有骯髒的愛情，也沒有美麗的監獄。　　163. Love will not yield to all the might of wealth. 　　愛情決不屈服於金錢的壓力。　　164. The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. 　　最大的恨來自最大的愛。　　165. Love as in time to come you should hate, and hate as you should in time to come, love. 　　愛到最後你會恨，恨到最後你會愛。　　愛不可太親，恨不可至極。　　166. Where love fails, we espy all faults. 　　愛情一旦失敗，所有毛病都發現。　　167. Faults are thick while love is thin. 　　一朝情義淡，樣樣不順眼。　　168. Without respect, love cannot go far. 　　沒有相互尊重，愛情難以長久。　　169. One love drives out another. 170. One love expels another. 　　此歡逐彼愛。　　舊愛難敵新歡。　　171. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. 　　貧窮一進門，愛情跳窗走。　　172. Unkindness destroys love. 　　冷漠毀滅愛情。　　173. Pity is a level for quickening love. 　　憐憫是加速愛情的手段。　　憐憫致愛。　　174. Falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. 　　情人越吵情越深。　　175. Lovers』 quarrels are soon mended. 　　戀人爭吵，很快和好。　　夫妻無隔夜之仇。　　176. Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks. 　　情侶靠愛情生活，猶如雲雀靠韭蔥生活。　　177. A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it. 　　人開始愛上誰，可有選擇；不愛誰時，卻無可選擇。　　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. 　　情人眼裡出西施。　　181. Love is never without jealousy. 　　愛情絕不會沒有妒忌。　　有愛情必有妒忌。 182. All is fair in love and war. 　　情場如戰場，一切都正常。　　情場戰場，各顯所長。　　183. All shall be well, Jack shall have Gill [Jill].　　有情人皆成眷屬。　　184. Every Jack has his Jill. 185. Every Jack must [shall] have his Jill [Gill]. 　　人各有偶。 　　破鍋不愁無爛蓋，男人自有女人愛。　　186. Marriage is a lottery. 　　婚姻之事難預測。　　187. Every couple is not a pair. 　　成對未必成雙。　　夫妻不盡般配。　　188. It is not every couple that is a pair. 　　成雙未必能配對。　　天下夫妻多，珠聯璧合少。　　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. 　　娶妻應與己般配。　　191. Fanned fires and forced love never did well yet. 　　扇起的火苗和勉強的愛情從來不會長久。　　捆綁不成夫妻。　　192. Forced love does not last. 　　勉強的愛情不會長久。　　捆綁不成夫妻。　　193. Marriages are made in heaven. 　　姻緣由天定。　　194. Marriage comes by destiny. 195. Marriage is destiny. 　　姻緣命中注定。　　196. Marry thy like. 　　跟你情投意合的人結婚。　　197. Marriage makes or mars a man. 　　婚姻造就人，也能毀壞人。　　198. Marry in haste, repent at leisure. 　　匆匆結婚姻，閑來悔不盡。　　199. Marry too soon, and you』ll repent too late. 　　結婚過急，悔之晚矣。　　200. They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen. 　　年紀輕輕就結婚，為時不久便悔恨。　　201. Marry in lent, and you』ll live to repent. 　　借債結婚，終生悔恨。　　202. Who marrieth for love without money, hath good nights and sorry days. 　　為了愛情，無錢結婚，夜來歡娛，白天悔恨。　　203. He that marries for wealth, sells his liberty. 　　為財富結婚，出賣了自由。　　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. 　　婚姻猶如一把鎖。　　207. A young man married is a man that』s marred. 　　男子早婚，種下禍根。　　208. Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all. 　　老實的人早結婚，聰明的人不結婚。　　209. The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. 　　懦夫造就兇悍妻。 　　210. Better be half hanged than ill wed. 　　與其擁有不幸的婚姻，不如孤守單身。　　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. 　　老婆選得好，一生無煩惱；老婆沒選好，日子過得糟。　　213. An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune. 　　不幸的婚姻乃厄運之源。　　214. He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself. 　　不尊重妻子的人，也不會受到尊重。　　215. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. 216. A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only. 　　擇妻靠耳不靠眼。　　217. A wooer should opens his ears more than his eyes. 　　找對象要多用耳，少用眼。　　218. A good wife makes a good husband. 　　妻賢夫自良。　　有好的妻子，就有好的丈夫。　　219. A good husband makes a good wife. 　　夫善則妻賢。　　220. A good Jack makes a good Jill [Gill]. 　　夫善則妻賢。　　主賢則仆忠。　　221. A bad husband makes a bad wife. 　　有惡夫必有惡妻。　　夫惡妻不善。　　不是一家人，不進一家門。　　222. As is the husband, so is the wife. 　　有其夫必有其妻。　　不是一家人，不進一家門。　　223. A nice wife and a back door will soon make a rich man poor. 　　老婆揮霍後門漏，常使富人窮個夠。　　224. Let beggars match with beggars. 　　龍配龍，鳳配鳳。　　瘸驢配破磨。　　225. There is no pot so ugly that it can』t find a lid. 　　壺再丑，也能找到蓋子。　　魚戀魚，蝦戀蝦，烏龜找王八。　　226. The wife is the key of the house. 　　妻賢一家興。　　妻子是一家興旺的關鍵。　　227. Mills and wives are ever wanting. 　　好磨難得，賢妻難尋。　　228. In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another. 　　擇妻猶如選劍，莫靠他人挑選。　　229. A good wife and health is a man』s best wealth. 　　妻賢和健康，男子兩件寶。　　230. The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue. 　　妻賢在德不在貌。　　231. A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness. 　　丈夫耳聾，妻子眼瞎，方有安定之家。　　232. Two is company, (but) three is none. 　　兩人成伴，三人不歡。　　233. It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. 　　母雞司晨家不興。　　234. He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. 　　馬駿妻嬌，麻煩不會少。　　235. The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house. 　　女人照鏡越多，照管家務就越少。　　236. A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.　　豐滿漂亮的寡婦要麼再嫁，要麼死掉，要麼關進修道院。　　寡婦門前是非多。3．家庭?子女237. East or west, home is best. 　　東好西好，還是自家好。　　金窩銀窩，不如自家的草窩。　　238. Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. 　　自己的家再窮，也沒有任何地方能比得上。　　金窩銀窩，不如自家的草窩。　　239. Home is home, be it never so homely.240. Home is home, though (it be) never so homely. 　　家雖簡陋，終歸是家。　　金窩銀窩，不如自家的草窩。　　241. Every bird likes its own nest (best). 　　鳥皆愛其巢。　　人皆愛其家。　　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.　　再臟[傻，壞]的鳥也不會將自己的窩弄髒。　　鳥不臟巢，人不毀家。244. There is no place like home. 　　世界各處不如家。　　245. Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. 　　家裡的乾麵包，也比外面的烤肉好。　　在家處處好，出門時時難。　　246. Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. 　　即使家規嚴，醜事總難免。　　247. Do not wash your dirty linen in public. 248. Dirty linen should be washed at home. 249. Wash your dirty linen at home. 　　不要在大庭廣眾下洗臟衣服。　　臟衣服應在自家洗。　　家醜不可外揚。　　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. 　　家家都有難言之隱。　　253. A man』s house is castle. 　　家是人的城堡。　　254. An Englishman』s home is his castle. 　　英國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. 　　家之於人，猶如巢之於鳥，穴之於獸。　　256. Home is where the heart is. 　　心在哪裡，家就在哪裡。　　哪裡歡樂哪是家。　　257. If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 　　家庭不和，難以立足。　　家不和，外人欺。　　258. Charity begins at home, but should not end there. 　　施捨先及親友，但不應限於親友。　　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. 　　有什麼樣的母親，就有什麼樣的孩子。　　262. Children have the qualities of the parents. 　　子女具有父母的品質。　　有什麼樣的父母，就有什麼樣的孩子。　　263. As the old cock crows, the young (one) learns. 　　老公雞怎樣啼，小公雞就怎樣叫。　　父母是孩子的榜樣。264. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. 　　一個父親勝於一百個教師。　　265. A mother』s love never changes. 　　母愛亘古不變。　　266. The mother』s breath is aye sweet. 　　母親的低語總是甜蜜的。　　267. A child may have too much of his mother』s blessing. 　　太多母愛，孩子被寵壞。　　268. A lighted-heeled mother makes a heavy-heeled daughter. 　　母親勤快，女兒懶散。　　269. A pet lamb makes a cross ram. 　　受寵的羊羔會變成性情暴躁的公羊。　　270. A miserly father makes a prodigal son. 　　有吝嗇的父親就有敗家的兒子。　　271. Blood is thicker than water. 　　血濃於水。　　親人總比外人親。　　272. Children are the parents』 riches. 　　子女是父母的至寶。　　273. Every mother』s child is handsome. 274. Every mother thinks her child beautiful. 　　母親都覺孩兒俊。　　敝帚自珍。　　275. One chick keeps a hen busy. 　　一雛已足擾其母。　　獨子亦費娘操心。　　276. One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father. 　　一個父親可以養活十個孩子，十個孩子卻不能供養一個父親。　　277. Great men』s sons seldom do well. 　　大人物的子孫少出息。　　278. Many a good father hath but a bad son. 　　賢父難免生逆子。　　279. Every mother breeds not sons alike. 　　一個娘養的孩子並非都一樣。　　280. The father buys, the son bigs, the grandchild sells, and his son thigs. 　　父置子建孫子賣，重孫上街當乞丐。　　281. Children learn to creep ere they can go. 　　孩子要走路，先得學爬行。　　282. A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world. 　　小孩是世界上最可愛、最純潔的東西。　　283. Happy is he that is happy in childhood. 　　童年快樂的人是幸福的。　　284. He that hath no children, knows not what is love. 285. He knows not what love is that has no children. 　　沒有子女的人，就不懂得什麼是愛。　　286. The child is father of the man. 　　三歲定到老。　　從一個人小時候就可以看出他長大後是個什麼樣子。　　287. The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. 　　從童年可以看到成年，從早晨可以看到全天。　　從小看大，七歲看老。　　288. As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined. 　　苗歪樹不直。　　從小偷針，長大偷金。　　289. Silly (=Good) child is soon ylered (=taught). 　　好孩子，學得快。　　290. Children and fools cannot lie. 　　孩子和愚人不會說謊。　　291. It is a wise father that knows his own child. 　　任何聰明的父親也不見得都了解自己的孩子。　　再聰明的父親都不見得完全知道自己的兒子。　　292. Little pitchers have long ears. 　　小孩子耳朵長。　　秘密別讓小孩聽到。　　293. Naughty boys sometimes make good men. 　　調皮的男孩長大後有時會成為很有作為的人。　　294. Spare the rod and spoil the child. 295. He that spares the rod, hates his son. 　　省了棍棒，壞了孩子。　　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. 　　扶正樹木當在枝嫩之時。　　育人當在幼小時。　　299. A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree. 　　嫩枝易彎，老樹難直。　　育人宜在年少時。　　300. There is always something to be cut off young trees if they are to grow well. 　　小樹要長好，定要修枝條。　　樹不修不成材，子不育不成人。　　301. Mother』s darlings are but milksop heroes. 　　嬌養的兒女成不了大器。　　302. One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. 　　一個男孩比十二個女孩增添的麻煩還多。　　303. Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts. 　　孩子肯定使人操心，但不一定帶來安慰。　　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. 　　兒子婚後是別人的，可女兒終生是自己的。　　305. Would you know your daughter, see her in company. 　　要想了解女兒，只需觀其交往。　　306. Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares. 　　死魚非存貨，女大不可留。　　307. It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well. 　　養女容易嫁女難。　　308. Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can. 　　娶媳遂你願，嫁女看可能。　　娶媳不忙，嫁女宜速。　　娶媳易，擇婿難。4．工作?學習309. A work ill done must be done twice done. 　　一事做糟，兩次重搞。　　310. If you would have a thing well done, do it yourself. 　　想把事情做得好，就得親自動手搞。　　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. 　　事情既已開頭，就要堅持到底。　　314. Never do things by halves. 　　做事切忌半途而廢。　　315. Finished labours are pleasant. 　　完成工作是一樂。　　316. Work makes the workman. 　　勤工出巧匠。　　317. The used key is always bright. 　　常用的鑰匙常光亮。　　318. Drawn wells are seldom dry. 　　常用的井不會幹。　　319. Put your shoulder to the wheel. 　　努力工作。　　320. Work bears witness who does well. 　　只有工作才能證明誰幹得好。　　321. It is not work that kills, but worry. 　　工作不會傷身，傷身乃是憂慮。　　322. They who cannot do as they would, must do as they can. 　　不能盡如人意，也應儘力而為。　　323. Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee. 　　照大多數人那樣干，人們會把你稱讚。　　324. The shortest answer is doing the thing. 　　最簡短的回答就是「干」。　　325. Better late than never. 　　遲做總比不做好。　　326. Better master one than engage with ten. 　　樣樣通，不如一門精。　　327. He that will not work shall not eat. 　　不勞者不得食。　　328. No mill, no meal. 　　不磨面就沒有麵包吃。　　329. No gains without pains. 330. No pains, no gains. 　　不勞則無獲。　　331. No song, no supper. 　　不勞動者不得食。　　332. Many hands make quick work. 　　人多幹活快。　　333. Many hands make light work. 　　人多好乾活。　　334. Business is business. 　　公事公辦。　　335. Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. 　　行動是知識之果。　　336. Deliberate slowly, execute promptly. 　　漫漫酌量，快快行動。　　337. It is right to put everything in its proper use. 　　凡物皆應恰當用。　　338. It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil. 　　沒有土壤，播種也是徒勞。　　339. What may be done at any time will be done at no time. 　　隨時可做之事，恰是沒時間所做之事。　　340. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 　　只工作不玩耍，聰明孩子也變傻。　　341. He that doth most at once doth least. 　　貪多嚼不爛。　　342. A bad workman quarrels with his tools. 　　技術拙劣怨工具。　　343. Diligence is the mother of success. 　　勤奮是成功之母。　　344. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. 　　勤勉是好運之母。　　345. Care and diligence bring luck. 　　謹慎和勤奮帶來好運。　　346. Industry is fortune』s right, and frugality her left. 　　勤奮是幸運的右手，節儉是幸運的左手。347. Live and learn. 348. A [One] man is never too old to learn. 　　活到老，學到老。　　349. It is never too old to learn. 　　為學不怕年高。　　350. He that learns a trade [an art] has a purchase made. 　　學個好手藝，有錢買東西。　　一招鮮，吃遍天。　　351. He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning. 　　畏問之人恥於學。　　352. He that nothing questions nothing learns. 353. He who questions nothing learns nothing. 　　一無所問者學不到東西。　　子不問，無所學。　　354. To ask well is to know much. 　　善問者博學。　　355. By learning you will teaching; by teaching you will learn. 　　學然後可以教，教亦可以學。　　教學相長。　　356. He who teaches, learns. 357. Teaching others teaches yourself. 　　教人者，己亦學。　　教學相長。　　358. In doing we learn. 　　邊干邊學。　　在實踐中學習。　　359. We learn not at school, but in life. 　　人生是在生活中學習，而非在學校中學習。　　360. There is no royal road to learning. 　　為學之路無坦途。　　361. There is no end to learning. 362. There is no satiety in study. 　　學無止境。　　學海無涯。　　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. 　　幼時所學，至老不忘。　　366. Learn young, learn fair. 　　為學趁年少，既學須學好。　　367. The living man who does not learn is dark, dark like one walking in the night. 　　人活著若不學習，猶如黑夜中的行人。　　368. It is good to learn at another man』s cost. 　　前車可鑒。　　369. Learn wisdom by the follies of others. 　　他人愚行變己聰明。　　370. Soon learnt, soon forgotten. 371. What is soon learnt is soon forgotten. 　　學得快，忘得快。　　372. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. 　　學而不思，猶如食而不化。　　373. He who will not learn when he is young will regret it when he is old. 　　少不學習，老來後悔。　　少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。　　黑髮不知勤學早，白髮方悔讀書遲。　　374. A lazy youth, a lousy age. 少時懶惰老來苦。5．事業?成功375. Business is the salt of life. 　　事業是生命之鹽。　　376. Business before pleasure. 　　事業在先，享樂在後。　　377. Business makes a man as well as tries him. 　　事業可以考驗人，也可以造就人。　　378. Do business, but be not a slave to it. 　　要做事，但不要成為事務的奴隸。　　379. Business neglected is business lost. 　　忽視事務便是放棄事務。　　380. Never think yourself above your business. 　　切勿眼高手低。　　不要自視過高。　　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. 　　人人負責，結果無人負責。　　383. Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious. 　　事業也許憂人，但懶惰害處更大。 384. A good beginning is half done. 385. The first blow is half the battle. 　　良好的開端，就是成功了一半。　　386. He who wills success is half way to it. 　　決心要成功，便成功了一半。　　387. Nothing succeeds like success. 　　一事成功，事事順利。　　388. Success belongs to the persevering. 　　成功屬於堅持不懈的人。　　389. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. 　　成功的秘訣是堅持不懈。　　390. Push generally succeeds in business. 　　在事業上埋頭苦幹通常就會成功。　　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訣。 393. Success is never blamed. 　　勝者為主。　　只要成功，就不會遭人責備。　　394. All roads lead to Rome. 　　條條大路通羅馬。　　395. Keeping is harder than winning. 　　成功不易，保持更難。　　396. Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. 　　事成都來居功，事敗無人關懷。　　397. Success has many friends. 　　成功朋友多。　　398. Not everyone can succeed. 　　並非每個人都可以成功。 399. Great hopes make great man. 　　遠大的理想造就偉大的人。　　400. Adversity leads to prosperity. 逆境通向成功路。 401. Successful crime is called virtue. 　　成功者的罪惡也被稱作美德。6．幸福?快樂402. Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 　　每個人都是自身幸福的建築師。　　403. Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept. 　　幸福易尋難維持。　　404. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth. 　　記得年輕時所做蠢事的人是幸福的。405. It』s a poor [sad] heart that never rejoices. 　　再痛苦的心也會有快樂的時候　　人人都有歡樂的時刻。　　406. Laugh, and the world will laugh with you. 　　你如果樂觀，世界也會陪你歡笑。　　407. A blithe [happy] heart makes a blooming visage. 408. A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. 　　心中快樂，容光煥發。　　人逢喜事精神爽。　　409. The joy of the heart makes the face merry. 　　心中快樂，面帶喜色。　　人逢喜事精神爽。　　410. A merry heart goes all the way. 　　心情愉快，辦事順暢。　　411. Joy puts heart into a man. 　　人快樂時心情好。　　人逢喜事精神爽。　　412. Joys shared with others are more enjoyed. 　　與人同樂，更加快樂。　　413. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. 　　美好的事物永遠是一種快樂。　　414. Children and fools have merry lives. 　　孩子和傻瓜，生活樂哈哈。　　415. Content is happiness. 　　知足常樂。　　416. Follow pleasure and it will flee thee; flee pleasure and it will follow thee. 　　追求快樂，它逃避；逃避快樂，它跟隨。　　417. Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours. 　　快樂和憂愁是近鄰。　　418. Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure. 　　悲哀常常緊隨快樂。　　樂極生悲。　　419. Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 　　快樂尾巴長有刺。　　樂極生悲。　　420. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. 　　快樂猶如香水，你不可能灑向別人而自己不沾上幾滴。　　421. No pleasure without pain. 422. There is no pleasure without pain. 　　沒有無痛苦的歡樂。　　423. No joy without alloy [annoy]. 424. There is no joy without alloy. 　　有樂就有悲。　　425. Sadness and gladness succeed each other. 　　快樂與悲哀總是交替來。　　426. It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable. 　　人與人相比，有悲又有喜。　　427. He who talks much of his happiness summons grief. 　　多談幸福的人會招致痛苦。　　428. Short pleasure, long lament. 　　眼前片刻歡，日後長悲痛。　　429. Stolen pleasures are sweet [sweetest]. 　　偷歡最快樂。　　求之不得的東西最好。　　430. Stolen waters are sweet. 　　偷來之水特別甜。　　偷歡最快樂。　　431. Please one』s eye and plague one』s heart. 　　只圖眼前快活，不顧事後煩惱。7．事實?真理432. Facts are stubborn (things). 　　事實是不可否認的。　　433. One foot is better than two crutches. 　　一隻腳勝過兩條拐杖。　　434. A bald head is soon shaven. 　　光腦袋，剃得快。　　435. A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. 　　瞎子不謝贈鏡人。　　436. A blind man cannot judge colours. 　　盲人不辨色。　　437. He that never rode never fell. 　　不騎馬不會落馬。　　438. The thread breaks where it is weakest. 　　線斷常在最細處。　　439. It is a long lane that has no turning. 　　路必有彎。　　世上沒有一條不轉彎的路。　　440. Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it. 　　袋子里裝什麼才能倒出什麼。　　無中不能生有。　　441. A cracked bell can never sound well. 442. A cracked bell is never sound.　　破鍾無好音。　　443. As we sow, so shall we reap. 　　種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆。 444. A tree is known by its fruit. 445. The tree is known by its [her] fruit. 　　觀其果便知樹。　　觀其行知其人。　　446. Soon ripe, soon rotten. 　　早熟早爛。　　早慧早夭。　　447. He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut. 　　要把果仁吃，就得碎果殼。448. He will shoot higher who shoots at the moon [sun] than he who aims at a tree. 　　瞄準月亮才能比瞄準樹木射得高。　　目標高才能射得高。　　449. Between two stools one goes to the ground. 　　腳踏兩隻船，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. 　　劣布難制美裝。　　452. No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold. 　　金鑄的腳鐐也沒人愛戴。　　453. Butter to butter is no relish. 　　黃油加黃油不成美味。　　千篇一律的東西令人生厭。　　454. You cannot eat your cake and have your cake. 　　餅子吃下肚，當然不再有。　　兩者不可兼得。　　455. Half a loaf is better than no bread. 　　半片麵包總比沒有好。　　有勝於無。456. There is no wheat without chaff. 　　沒有不帶殼的麥粒。 457. Something is better than nothing. 　　有總比沒有強。458. Everything is good for something. 　　萬物皆有其用。 　　459. Nature abhors a vacuum. 　　自然界里無真空。　　460. There is nothing permanent except change. 　　沒有任何東西是一成不變的。　　461. Two negatives make an affirmative. 　　否定之否定即為肯定。　　462. Wonders are many, and nothing is more wonderful than man. 　　世上奇蹟多，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. 　　吵架要有兩個人。　　465. Every man has his liking. 　　人各有好。　　466. So many men, so many minds. 　　十人十條心。　　467. Every shoe fits not every foot. 　　一鞋難合百人足。　　468. Everything must have a beginning. 　　凡事皆有始。　　469. Everything hath an end. 　　萬物有始必有終。　　470. The darkest hour is that before the dawn. 　　黎明之前最黑暗。　　471. Every cloud has a silver lining. 　　黑暗之中總有一線光明。　　禍中有福。　　472. Every advantage has its disadvantage. 　　有利必有弊。　　473. Tread on a worm and it will turn. 　　蚯蚓被踩也會動。　　被逼過甚，最溫順者也會反抗。　　474. No smoke without some fire. 475. There is no smoke without fire. 　　無火不生煙。　　不風不起浪。　　476. Every why has a wherefore. 　　凡事皆有因。　　477. Most things have two handles. 　　多數事物都有兩種解釋。　　478. There are two sides to every question. 　　每個問題都有兩個方面。　　479. No living man all things can. 　　世上沒有萬能者。　　480. Fire and water have no mercy. 　　水火無情。　　481. Pouring oil on the fire is no way to quench it. 　　加油不是滅火法。　　482. Water afar quencheth not fire. 　　遠水救不了近火。　　483. Fire and water are [may be] good servants, but bad masters. 　　水火是忠僕，用之不慎成災主。　　484. When the well is full, it will run over. 　　井滿則水溢。　　485. The last drop makes the cup run over. 　　已滿的杯子多加一滴就會溢出。　　超過限度的微小事情往往釀成重大後果。　　486. Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. 　　瓶中之酒不解渴。　　487. Shallow streams made most din. 　　溪淺水聲喧。　　滿瓶不響，半瓶叮噹。　　488. Union is strength. 　　團結就是力量。489. Truth will prevail [conquer]. 　　真理必勝。　　490. Truth fears no colours. 　　真理不怕任何反駁。　　真理是駁不倒的。　　491. Truth shines in the dark. 　　真理在黑暗中閃光。　　492. Truth has no answer. 　　真理無可抗拒。　　493. Truth is a lion. 　　真理是一頭雄獅。　　494. Nothing endures but truth. 　　唯有真理永存。495. The truth is always green. 496. Truth never grows old.　　真理之樹常青。　　497. Truth is the daughter of time.　　真理是時間之女。498. Sooner or later, the truth comes to light. 499. The truth will out. 真相遲早會大白。　　真理遲早會被證明。　　500. Truth lies [is] at the bottom of a well. 　　真理深藏井底。　　真理難以探求。　　501. Truth will out, even if buried in a golden coffin. 　　即使把真理裝在金棺材裡埋起來，它終究也會顯露出來。　　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，但衣衫襤褸。　　504. Truth needs no colours. 　　真理無需粉飾。　　505. Truth』s best ornament is nakedness. 　　不加掩飾乃是真理的最好裝飾。　　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. 　　真理與謬誤只有一步只差。 508. Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed. 　　真理也許會遭受非難，但絕不會遭受羞辱。　　509. Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out. 　　惡意雖然會糟蹋真理，但無法消滅真理。　　510. The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know. 　　人們最不願傾聽之事，往往是對其大有裨益之事。　　511. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. 　　美即是真，真即是美。8．書籍?知識512. Books and friends should be few but good. 513. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. 　　書籍如朋友，宜少須慎選。　　514. Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. 　　書籍乃累積智慧之不滅明燈。　　515. A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us. 　　好書如至友，永遠不相負。　　516. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 　　好書如摯友，友情永不渝。　　517. There is no friend so faithful as a good book. 　　一本好書就是一位最忠實的朋友。　　518. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. 　　書是隨身攜帶的花園。　　519. A book is the same today as it was always and it will never change. 　　好書千載常如新。　　好書永不過時。　　520. A book that remains shut is but a block. 　　好書不去翻，猶如一木磚。　　521. Old wood is best to burn, old book to read. 　　老柴好燒，老書宜讀。　　522. Judge not a book by its cover. 　　好書不憑封面判。　　523. A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent. 　　壞書因其不能改正錯誤而更壞。　　524. In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages. 　　偉大思想代代有，載入史冊永不朽。　　525. A good tale is none the worse for being twice told. 　　好故事百聽不厭。　　526. The true university of these days is a collection of books. 當今真正的大學就是一批藏書。527. Knowledge (itself) is power. 　　知識就是力量。　　528. Knowledge starts with practice. 　　知識來源於實踐。　　實踐出真知。　　529. Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist. 　　無實踐的知識只能使人成為半個藝術家。　　530. Knowledge is a Treasure, but Practice is the key to it. 　　知識是寶庫，而實踐則是開啟這座寶庫的鑰匙。　　531. Knowledge is no burden [burthen]. 　　知識決非負擔。　　藝多不壓身。　　532. Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud. 　　知識使人謙虛，無知使人傲慢。　　533. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. 　　若要長知識，須從勤苦得。　　534. Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps. 　　知識只能循序漸進，不能躍進。　　535. It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. 　　知識的特點就在於真正渴求知識的人總能得到它。　　536. Knowledge is the antidote to fear. 　　知識是恐懼的解毒劑。　　知識可以消除恐懼。　　537. A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning. 　　少量的常識抵得上大量的知識。　　538. Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse. 　　學問使好人更好，壞人更壞。　　539. Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit. 　　學問是苦根結出的甜果。　　540. The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. 　　做學問的三個基本條件是：多觀察，多吃苦、多研究。　　541. Without learning, without eyes. 　　無學問猶如沒有眼睛。　　542. Doubt is the key of knowledge. 　　懷疑是打開知識寶庫的鑰匙。　　543. Questioning is the door of knowledge. 　　疑問是通向知識之門。　　544. He that knows nothing, doubts nothing. 　　一無所知的人對什麼也不會懷疑。　　無知即無疑。　　545. A body without knowledge is like a house without a foundation. 　　人無知識猶如房屋沒有地基。　　546. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 547. A little learning is a dangerous thing. 淺學寡識是件危險的事情。　　淺學誤人。 548. Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand. 　　胸中知識勝於手中錢。　　549. Wisdom is better than gold or silver. 　　知識勝於金錢。　　550. Wisdom is more to be envied than riches. 　　知識可羨，勝於財富。　　551. Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it. 　　為求知識，在所不惜。　　552. Too much knowledge makes the head bald. 　　過分勞心，使人謝頂。　　知識太多老得快。　　553. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. 　　知識之於精神，猶如健康之於身體。　　554. Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. 　　沒有知識的熱情，猶如脫韁之馬。　　555. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. 　　沒有知識的熱心，猶如有火而無光。　　556. Science is organized knowledge. 　　科學是系統的知識。　　557. Science has no enemy but the ignorant. 　　科學的敵人是愚昧無知。　　558. Common sense is not common. 　　常識並不尋常。　　559. Imagination is more important than knowledge. 　　想像比知識更重要。　　560. Imagination will span the gap in our knowledge. 　　想像可彌補知識之不足。　　561. A useful trade is a mine of gold. 　　有用的技藝是無價之寶。　　562. Skill is no burden. 　　技藝決非負擔。　　藝多不壓身。　　563. An empty barrel makes more noise than a full one. 　　空桶比滿桶發出的響聲大。　　一桶不響，半捅晃蕩。　　564. An empty bag cannot stand upright. 　　空袋不能直立。 沒有知識武裝，幹什麼都一事無成。9．風俗?習慣565. Custom is a second nature. 566. Custom is another nature. 　　習慣是第二天性。　　567. Custom makes all the things easy. 　　風俗習慣使萬事容易辦。　　形成習慣，事事好辦。　　568. Custom reconciles us to everything. 　　習慣使人安於一切。　　569. Custom rules law. 　　風俗約束法律。　　570. A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. 　　壞習慣像餅子，碎了比保存起來好。　　571. Custom without reason is but ancient error. 　　荒謬的風俗只不過是古老的錯誤而已。　　572. What youth is used to, age remembers. 　　少年慣為事，老時長記起。　　573. So many countries, so many customs. 574. Every country has its customs. 　　一國有一國的風俗。　　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. 在羅馬要和羅馬人一樣行事。　　入國問禁，入鄉隨俗。　　571. Other times, other manners. 　　時代不同，風俗有異。　　俗隨時變。　　572. Habit is (a) second nature. 573. Use is (a) second nature.　　習慣是人的第二天性。　　習慣成自然。　　574. Once a use, for ever a custom. 　　習慣成自然。　　575. Habit cures habit. 　　新習慣改變舊習慣。　　576. Every man has his own habit. 　　每個人都有自己的習慣。　　577. Habit is a cable: we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. 　　習慣為纜繩，日編一縷，終不了斷。　　578. You cannot make a crab walk straight. 　　誰也不能讓螃蟹直著走路。　　579. Old habits die hard. 　　陳規陋習難消除。　　580. Old use and wont legs about the fire. 　　舊習俗總是圍著火爐轉。　　舊習難改。　　581. Once is no custom. 　　偶爾一次不能算數。　　582. Once is no rule. 　　一次不成例。10．言語?行動583. He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue. 　　管不住嘴巴講不好話。　　越是不會講話的人越愛講。　　584. Wealth of words is not eloquence. 　　多言算不上雄辯。　　585. He that talks much, errs much. 說得越多，錯得越多。586. Few words, many deeds. 　　少說話，多做事。　　587. Actions speak louder than words. 　　行動比言語更響亮。　　百說不如一干。　　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. 　　說得好不如做得好。　　591. Not to say well, but to do well. 不要說得好，而要做得好。　　說得中聽不如做得出色。　　592. Say well is good, but do well is better. 　　說得漂亮固然不錯，但做得好才更好。　　593. Deeds, not words. 　　要行動，不要空談。　　594. Don』t make any noise while you work, but use your brain. 　　幹活不要吵，而要用頭腦。　　595. Easier said than done. 　　說起來容易，做起來難。　　596. From words to deeds is a great space. 　　言行之間距離大。　　597. There is great difference between word and deed. 　　言語和行動很不相同。　　言行之間距離大。　　598. First think, and then speak. 　　先思而後言。　　599. Speak without thinking is shooting without aiming. 600. Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. 　　言而無思，無的放矢。　　601. Least said, soonest mended. 602. Little said is soon amended. 603. Little said, soonest mended. 　　話說越少，彌補越快。　　少說為妙。　　604. The least said the better. 　　少說為妙。　　605. Few words are best. 　　話少為佳。　　606. Be swift to hear, slow to speak. 　　敏於聽而慎於言。　　607. Hear much, speak little. 　　多聽少說。　　608. It is better to play with the ears than the tongue. 　　多用耳，少用口。　　多聽少說。　　609. Hear twice before you speak once. 　　聽兩次，說一次。　　多聽少說。　　610. Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. 　　閉上嘴巴，豎起耳朵。　　多聽少講。 611. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. 　　閉上嘴巴，睜開眼睛。　　多看少說。　　612. Look before you leap. 　　慎思而後行。　　613. Second thoughts are best. 　　三思而後行。　　614. He is a wise man who speaks little. 　　聰明的人言語少。　　615. He knows most who [that] speaks least. 616. Who knows most, says [speaks] least. 　　懂得最多的人說得最少。　　617. A wise head makes a close mouth. 　　頭腦靈，嘴巴緊。　　618. A man of sense talks little and listens much. 　　有理智的人，說得少聽得多。　　619. From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance. 　　多聽出智慧，多說要後悔。　　620. Words are the wise man』s counters and the fool』s money. 　　聰明人把言語做籌碼，愚蠢人把言語當真錢。　　聰明人把言語作手段，愚蠢人把言語作目的。　　621. Let not your tongue cut your throat. 　　莫讓舌頭砍了脖子。　　舌是斬身刀。　　禍從口出。622. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. 　　能說者未必能行。　　623. Great boast, small roast. 624. Great boasters [talkers], little doers. 625. Great braggers, little doers. 　　夸夸其談者，實際行動少。　　言語的巨人，行動的矮子。　　626. Every brave man is a man of his word. 　　勇敢之人不食言。 君子一言，駟馬難追。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，駟馬難追。　　630. A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled. 　　說出口的話和扔出的石頭都收不回來。　　一言既出，駟馬難追。　　631. A word spoken is an arrow let fly. 　　君子一言，如箭離弦。　　一言既出，駟馬難追。　　632. Many a true word is spoken in jest. 633. There is many a true word spoken in jest. 　　笑語之中吐真言。　　634. In vino veritas. 635. In wine there is truth. 　　酒後吐真言。　　636. What the heart thinks the tongue speaks. 637. As a man』s heart is, so does he speak. 　　心裡想什麼，嘴上就說什麼。　　言為心聲。　　638. One』s words reflect one』s thinking. 　　嘴上講的反映心裡想的。　　言為心聲。　　639. Speech is the index of the mind. 　　言為心聲。　　640. Speech is the picture of the mind. 　　言語是心靈的寫照。　　言為心聲。　　641. Speech shows what a man is. 　　言語說明人品。　　聽其言，知其人。　　642. The head is recognized by the tongue. 　　聽其言，知其思。　　言為心聲。　　643. When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth. 　　心中著了火，口中冒火星。　　心裡有什麼，嘴裡就說什麼。　　644. Words are the voice of the heart. 　　言為心聲。　　645. Your conversation is the mirror of your thoughts. 　　言語是心靈的鏡子。　　心裡怎麼想，嘴上怎麼說。　　言為心聲。　　646. A man apt to promise is apt to forget. 　　易於許諾之人，也易於忘記。　　647. A man that breaks his words, bids others to be false to him. 　　不守信用之人，無異於叫別人對他失信。　　648. Be slow to promise and quick to perform. 　　慢許諾快兌現。　　649. Words are but wind. 　　說話只算是颳風。　　話是空的。　　650. Fair words butter no parsnips. 　　美言無補實際。　　651. Talking mends no holes. 　　空談於事無補。　　652. Words pay no debts. 　　空話不能抵債。　　空談無濟於事。　　653. Facts speak louder than words. 　　事實勝於雄辯。　　654. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. 　　行動是果，言語是葉。　　655. Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose. 　　與其言語不中肯，不如一句也不吭。　　656. It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently. 　　話說得多是一回事，說得中肯是另一回事。　　657. Saying and doing are two things. 　　說和做是兩回事。　　658. Saying is one thing and doing another. 　　說是一回事，做是另一回事。　　659. To say is one thing; to do is quite another. 說是一回事，做完全是另一回事。 660. A word in season is most precious. 　　及時一言最可貴。　　661. A word in time is worth two afterwards. 　　及時一句抵得上事後兩句。　　662. Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit. 　　無益的雄辯猶如柏樹，雖然樹榦高大卻不結果。　　663. Bare words, no bargain. 　　空談難以成交易。 664. Fair words fill not the belly. 665. Fair words will not fill the belly. 666. The belly is not filled with fair words. 　　甜言美語填不飽肚皮。　　甜言美語無濟於事。　　667. Fair words will not make the pot play. 　　甜言美語難使壺水開。　　甜言美語無濟於事。　　668. Soft words are hard arguments. 　　婉言更具說服力。　　669. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. 　　空談不如實踐。　　布丁好壞，一償便知。　　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. 　　緊閉嘴唇，蒼蠅難進。　　口風緊，不招禍。　　673. The greatest talkers are always the least doers. 674. Great talkers are little doers. 　　夸夸其談之人總是行動最少之人。　　675. A long tongue is a sign of a short hand. 　　舌頭長是手短的標誌。　　說話多必然做得少。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. 　　並不是在任何情況下都可以說真話的。　　見人只說三分話，不可全拋一片心。　　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. 　　光有空談而無行動之人，猶如雜草叢生的果園。　　681. Our own actions are our security, not others』 judgement. 　　我們的行為是自己為人的明證，不需要別人評判。　　682. A man is not good or bad for one action. 　　一次行為難以判斷一個人的好壞。683. A kind word is never lost. 　　善言長存。　　好話一句三冬暖。　　684. A soft answer turns [turneth] away wrath. 　　溫和的回答可以平息怒氣。　　685. People are more convinced by words than by blows. 　　言語比棍棒更能說服人。　　686. A good tongue is a good weapon. 　　口齒伶俐，是件利器。　　687. The tongue is not made of steel, yet it cuts. 　　舌頭不是鋼，一動把人傷。　　688. Sometimes words hurt more than swords. 　　言語能傷人，有時勝刀劍。　　689. A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart. 　　言語雖非箭，卻能刺人心。　　惡言惡語傷人心。　　690. Many words cut [hurt] more than swords. 　　眾口傷人，勝似刀劍。　　691. Words cut [hurt] more than swords. 　　言語傷人勝利劍。　　692. The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none. 　　舌上無骨，卻可碎骨。　　人言可畏。　　693. The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. 　　舌頭非鋼，卻能把人傷。　　694. Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools. 695. Fair words and foul deeds cheat wise men as well as fools. 　　美言與惡行同樣會欺騙聰明人和愚人。　　696. Do as you would be done by. 　　你願別人怎樣對待你，你就應該怎樣對待別人。　　己所不欲，勿施於人。　　697. Fine words dress ill deeds. 　　華麗的言詞會裝飾惡劣的行為。　　698. No word can be the disguise of base intentions. 　　言詞掩蓋不了卑鄙的意圖。　　699. Ill deeds cannot honour. 　　惡行敗壞名聲。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。　　頭頭多，規矩多。　　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. 　　法隨王所欲。　　朕即法律。　　704. What the king wills, that the law wills. 　　王之所欲，法之所願。　　法隨王所欲。　　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. 　　天網恢恢，疏而不漏。　　712. The greater the crime, the higher the gallows. 　　罪惡越大，絞刑架越高。　　罪惡越大，治罪越重。　　713. Law makers should not be law breakers. 　　立法者不應違法。　　714. Ignorance of the law excuses no man [one]. 715. Ignorance of the law is no excuse of breaking it. 　　不懂法不能成為任何人犯法的借口。　　716. Wrong laws make short governance. 　　不健全的法律統治時間不會長。　　717. Where drums beat, laws are silent. 　　戰鼓一響，法律無聲。　　718. Laws catch flies and let hornets go free. 　　法網捕蒼蠅，黃蜂由它去。　　719. Law are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. 　　法律如蛛網，捉得小蒼蠅，黃蜂破網出。　　720. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. 　　大賊脫身去，小賊被弔死。721. One law for the rich, and another for the poor. 　　對富人一套法律，對窮人卻另一套法律。　　722. Law is a bottomless pit. 　　法律是無底的深淵。　　723. Every law has a loophole. 　　法律皆有漏洞。　　724. Hard cases make bad law. 　　棘手的案件使法律無能無力。　　725. An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men. 　　法官應公正，重法不重人。　　726. That trial is not fair where affection is the judge. 　　法官動感情，審判難公正。　　727. A good lawyer, an evil neighbour. 　　好律師不是好鄰居。　　728. An old physician, and a young lawyer. 　　醫生年老的好，律師年輕的好。　　729. Force can never destroy right. 暴力決不能摧毀正義。730. Justice must be done even if the sky falls. 　　天塌下來也得主持正義。12．強權?戰爭731. Might is right. 　　強權即公理。　　732. Might overcomes right. 　　強權也會戰勝公理。　　733. The great fish eat up the small. 734. Big fish eat little fish. 　　大魚吃小魚。　　弱肉強食。　　735. The longest pole knocks the most persimmons. 　　最長的杆子打的柿子最多。　　強者常勝。736. Providence is always on the side of the big [strongest] battalions. 　　上帝總是站在強者一邊。　　737. Kings have long arms [hands]. 　　國王手臂及四海。　　百姓強不過官家。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. 　　身在羅馬城，難與教皇爭。　　胳膊扭不過大腿。740. It is the man behind the gun that tells. 　　手中握槍才有說話權。　　741. War is death』s feast. 　　戰爭是死亡的宴席。　　742. War is the sport of kings. 　　戰爭是帝王們的遊戲。　　743. War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. 　　戰爭造成盜賊，和平將其弔死。　　744. When war begins, then hell openeth. 　　戰爭一開始，地獄便打開。　　745. When guns speak it is too late to argue. 　　槍炮發言時，爭辯已太遲。　　746. Peace with sword in hand, 』Tis safest making. 　　和平時期手執劍，這樣做來最保險。　　有備無患。　　747. If you want peace, prepare for war. 748. If you wish for peace, be prepared for war. 　　欲求和平，必先備戰。　　749. In peace prepare for war. 　　和平時期應備戰。　　750. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. 　　備戰是維護和平最有效的手段之一。　　751. Weapons bode [breed] peace. 　　武裝預兆和平。　　752. Of all war(s), peace is the end. 　　一切戰爭終將以和平告終。　　753. Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged. 　　兩國相爭，不斬來使。　　754. When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war. 755. When Greeks joined Greeks then was the tug of war. 　　兩雄相遇，其斗必烈。　　756. Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. 　　服從是軍人的天職。13．善良?美德757. To be virtuous is to do good . 　　行善就是積德。　　758. Never be weary of well doing. 　　不要厭倦行善。　　759. One good turn deserves another. 　　善行應有善報。　　760. He that returns good for evil obtains the victory. 　　成功屬於以德報怨之人。　　761. We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favour received. 　　我有德於人不應記，人有德於我不可忘。　　762. If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be true. 　　若有人稱讚，自問細掂量。　　763. Virtue is the only true nobility. 　　萬事不如美德高。　　764. Virtue is her [its] own reward. 765. Virtue is to herself the best reward. 　　美德本身就是對美德的最好報償。　　施恩不圖報。　　766. Virtue is a jewel of great price. 767. Virtue is beyond price.　　美德乃無價之寶。　　768. Virtue is fairer far than beauty. 　　美德遠勝美貌。　　769. Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. 　　美德如寶石，樸素它最美。　　770. Virtue never grows old. 　　美德永不過時。　　771. Virtue and courtesy go hand in hand. 　　美德與禮貌攜手並行。　　有德便有禮貌。　　772. Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. 　　美德和幸福是母女關係。　　美德是幸福之源。　　773. He that soweth virtue shall reap fame. 　　播種美德，收穫美名。　　774. Glory is the shadow of virtue. 　　榮譽乃美德的影子。　　775. The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice. 　　邁向美德的第一步是不作惡。　　776. There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not. 　　貧窮會毀壞美德。　　777. Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man. 唯利是圖者，心中無美德。14．勇敢?堅忍778. Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue. 　　勇敢和堅決是美德的靈魂。　　779. The best hearts are always the bravest. 　　行為勇敢的人心地總是善良的。　　780. No way is impossible to courage. 　　勇者無畏途。　　781. Nothing is difficult to the man who will try. 　　只要人肯試，世上無難事。　　782. The path to glory is always rugged. 　　榮譽之路多坎坷。　　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. 　　烈火試真金，逆境煉勇士。　　785. As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man. 　　試金之石可試金，金錢黃金能試人。　　786. The good seaman is known in bad weather. 　　惡劣的天氣才能識得好海員。　　787. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. 　　平靜的大海造就不出熟練的水手。 788. Rewards allure men to brave danger. 　　獎賞勉勵人勇敢面對危險。　　重賞之下必有勇夫。　　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. 　　家住林邊梢，貓頭鷹嚇不倒。 791. Faint heart never won fair lady. 　　膽怯難贏美女心。　　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，你就是自己最大的敵人；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. 　　勇士的神色勝過懦夫的刀劍。　　795. Scanderbeg』s sword must have Scanderbeg』s arm. 　　寶劍須由壯士擎。　　796. A brave retreat is a brave exploit. 　　勇退即勇跡。　　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. 　　不冒險就無所得。　　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. 滴水不絕可穿石。 只要功夫深，鐵杵磨成針。806. With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin. 　　有了時間和忍耐，桑葉也能變織錦。 只要功夫深，鐵杵磨成針。807. Perseverance is the only road to success. 不屈不撓是取得成功的唯一道路。808. Rome was not built in a day. 羅馬並非一日建成。809. Step by step the ladder is ascended. 　　梯子需要逐級登。810. Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. 　　失敗十九次，到第二十次成功，這就叫堅持。　　811. He that falls today may be up again tomorrow. 　　今天跌倒的人，明天也許就會重新站起來。812. Patience is a virtue. 　　忍耐是一種美德。813. Patience and application will carry us through. 　　忍耐與努力會使人度過難關。　　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，期盼好運。　　壞事要忍，好事要等。　　816. He bears misery best who hides it most. 　　最能掩蓋自己痛苦的人是最善於忍受痛苦的人。　　817. Patient men win the day. 　　能忍者必勝。　　818. He that can have patience, can have what he will. 　　能忍方能遂願。 819. He that can stay obtains. 　　能等待方有所獲。　　820. He that endures is not overcome. 　　能忍者不可克。　　忍者常勝。　　821. Let patience grow in your garden always. 　　讓忍耐之花在你的花園裡永遠開放。　　822. Patience is a flower that grows not in every one』s garden. 　　忍耐是鮮花，但每個人的花園裡並非都有它。　　823. All things will come round to him who will but wait. 824. Everything comes to him who waits. 　　只要肯等待，一切都會來。　　持之以恆，必將有成。　　825. Long looked for comes at last. 　　久久尋找，終會找到。　　826. Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her. 　　幸運女神常常嘉獎有耐心等待她的人們。　　827. It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others. 　　忍受別人的不幸容易。　　刺不掛，肉不痛。15．誠實?謙遜828. Honesty is the best policy. 　　誠實為上策。　　829. Knavery may serve, but honesty is best. 　　欺詐也許有用，但誠實卻是上策。　　830. An honest man』s word is as good as his bond. 　　誠實人的話就是他的保證書。　　831. Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill pennyworth. 　　誠實或許代價昂貴，但決不會分文不值。　　高價買誠實，永遠也值得。　　832. Poor but honest. 　　雖貧窮，要誠實。　　833. The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar. 　　正當得到的一分錢勝於偷來的一元錢。　　834. One penny with right is better than a thousand without right. 　　合法所得的一便士，勝於非法所得的一千便士。　　835. The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound. 　　不正當所得的便士會使正當得來的英鎊也受玷污。　　836. An honest look covereth many faults. 　　誠實的外表容易掩蓋諸多缺點。 837. Humility is the beginning of wisdom. 　　智慧來源於謙遜。 　　838. The more noble the more humble. 　　越高貴，越應謙遜。　　839. Know thyself [yourself]. 　　人應自知。　　人貴有自知之明。　　840. The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. 　　人生最難是自知。　　人貴有自知之明。　　841. No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself. 　　人並不因為他自知很差就很差。　　842. Humility often gains more than pride. 　　謙遜常比傲慢獲益更多。　　843. It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride. 　　叱責傲慢並非是謙遜的標誌。16．節約?儉省844. Saving is getting.　　節約等於增加收入。　　845. From saving comes having. 　　儉省才會聚財。　　846. Better spare at brim than at bottom. 　　寧願缸滿時節約，不願見底時儉省。　　847. Better spare to have of thine own, than ask of other man. 　　求人不如節儉。　　848. The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE. 　　節儉是致富的秘訣。　　849. A penny saved is a penny gained. 　　省錢等於掙錢。　　850. Thrift is a great revenue. 851. Thrift is good revenue. 　　節省就是一筆大收入。　　852. Thrift is the philosopher』s stone. 　　節儉是塊點金石。　　節儉是個聚寶盆。　　853. Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves. 　　金錢積少便成多。　　854. Penny and penny, laid up, will be many. 　　便士加便士，積成大數目。　　積少成多。　　855. Put two halfpennies [pennies] in a purse, and they will draw together. 　　小錢放口袋，大錢積起來。　　856. Of saving, comes having. 　　富有來自節儉。　　857. Better spared than ill spent. 　　亂花錢不如少花錢。　　858. Frugality is an estate alone. 　　節儉本身就是一宗財產。　　859. Economy is itself a great income. 860. Sparing is a great revenue. 　　節約本身便是一筆可觀的收入。　　861. Economy is the easy chair of old age. 　　節約是老年的安樂椅。　　生活節儉，安度晚年。　　862. Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. 　　節儉防老。　　863. Spare when you』re young, and spend when you』re old. 　　少時儉省老來花。　　864. Many a little makes a mickle. 865. Many a pickle makes a muckle. 866. Every little makes (a mickle). 積少成多。　　集腋成裘。　　867. Small gains bring great wealth. 　　積小利，成巨富。　　868. Economy the poor man』s mints; extravagance the rich man』s pitfall. 　　儉省是窮人的鑄幣場；揮霍是富人的陷人坑。　　869. Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach. 　　量入為出。　　870. Live within your means and save for a rainy day. 　　量入為出，未雨綢繆。　　871. Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend. 　　可節約時不亂花，該花錢時不吝嗇。　　872. Save money against a rainy day. 　　平時存錢，以防未然。　　873. He that saves his dinner will have the more for his supper. 　　中餐節省，晚餐有餘。　　874. Waste not, want not. 不浪費，就不會缺乏。　　儉以防匱。　　875. He who will not keep a penny shall never have money. 　　有錢就花的人決不會有積蓄。　　876. He that regards not a penny, will lavish a pound. 　　小錢不知省，大錢將濫花。　　877. Frugality when all is spent comes too late. 878. It is too late to husband [spare] when all is spent. 　　花光才節儉，為時已太晚。 879. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 　　借貸使人忘記節約。　　880. Always taking out the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom. 　　取糧不儲糧，桶底糧也光。　　坐吃山空。17．聰明?才智881. No man is born wise. 　　聰明非天生。　　882. He is the wisest man who does not think himself so. 　　不自作聰明便是最大的聰明。　　883. Penny wise and pound foolish. 　　小事聰明，大事糊塗。　　884. He is wise that knows when he』s well enough. 　　知足之人方為智者。　　885. He is the wise man who is the honest man. 　　誠實之人乃明智之人。　　886. He is wise that is ware in time. 　　聰明人小心謹慎。　　887. Pen and ink is wit』s plough. 　　筆墨是才智之犁。　　888. A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand. 　　聰明人會隨機應變。　　889. Every wise man dreadeth his enemy. 　　聰明人對敵人遠而避之。　　890. The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. 　　聰明之手勿做愚蠢之口所言之事。 891. A wise man hears one word and understand two. 　　聰明的人聽一知二。　　892. A wise man is never less alone than (he is) alone. 　　智者孤獨如獨處。　　893. He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not. 　　愚蠢人不會發怒，聰明人不願發怒。　　894. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. 895. Wise men change their minds; fools never do. 　　聰明的人改變主意，愚蠢的人固執己見。　　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. 　　聰明人從愚人那裡學到頗多，而愚人則從聰明人那裡一無所獲。　　898. Wise men learn by other men』s mistakes; fools by their own. 　　聰明人從別人的錯誤中吸取教訓，愚蠢人從自己的錯誤中吸取教訓。　　899. A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks. 　　聰明人想了才說，愚蠢人想著就說。　　900. Wise men love truth, whereas fools shut it. 　　聰明的人熱愛真理，愚蠢的人逃避真理。　　901. Wise men have their mouth in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth. 　　聰明人嘴在心裡，愚蠢人心在嘴裡。　　902. Wise men are silent; fools talk. 　　聰明的人寡言，愚蠢的人話多。　　903. Wise men become wiser as they grow older, ignorant men more ignorant. 聰明的人越老越聰明，愚蠢的人越老越愚蠢。 904. The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all. 　　聰明人自認一無所知，愚蠢人自視無所不知。　　905. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise. 　　環境是弱者的統治者，卻是智者的工具。 906. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. 　　寧作聰明的傻子，不作愚蠢的聰明人。　　907. He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs. 　　有足夠才智處理自己事務者才是聰明之人。　　908. A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. 　　聰明的人不貪戀身外之物。 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. 　　對智者一言已足。　　913. Good wits jump (together). 914. Great minds think alike. 　　智者所見略同。　　英雄所見略同。　　915. Four eyes see more than two. 　　兩人總比一人看得全面。　　916. Many [Two] heads are better than one. 　　三個臭皮匠，頂個諸葛亮。　　917. The wise man is always a good listener. 　　聰明的人善聽他人之言。　　918. It is a good workman that never blunders. 　　智者千慮，必有一失。　　919. Great men are not always wise. 　　偉人並非永遠聰明。　　920. No man is wise at all times. 921. No one wise at all times. 　　世上無人永遠聰明。　　聰明一世，糊塗一時。　　智者千慮，必有一失。　　922. It is easy to be wise after the event. 　　事後諸葛亮容易當。923. Much thinking yields wisdom. 　　多思出智慧。　　924. Wits are wealth. 　　智慧就是財富。　　925. Multitude of years should teach wisdom. 　　歲月教人增長智慧。　　926. Years bring wisdom. 　　歲月使人增長智慧。　　927. Bought wit is dear. 　　付出代價的智慧最珍貴。　　928. Wit bought is better than wit taught. 　　付出代價的智慧勝於他人傳授的智慧。　　929. A flow of words is no proof of wisdom. 　　口若懸河並不能證明真有才智。　　930. Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit. 　　缺乏學識的機智，猶如沒有果實的樹。　　931. That』s good wisdom which is wisdom in the end. 　　最後聰明才是真聰明。18．名譽?信任932. Fame is a magnifying glass. 　　名譽是放大鏡。　　933. Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off. 　　名譽像河流，源頭雖狹窄，越遠越寬闊。　　934. He that desires honour is not worthy of honour. 　　一心想得到榮譽的人不值得給予榮譽。　　935. A good fame is better than a good face. 936. Good fame is better than a good face. 　　美名勝美貌。　　937. A good name is better than a golden girdle. 938. A good name is better than gold. 939. Good name is gold worth. 　　美名勝金玉。　　940. A good name is better than (great) riches. 　　美名勝錢財。　　941. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. 　　寧擇美名，不選財富。　　942. A good name keeps its luster in the dark. 　　良好的名聲在黑暗中也能閃爍發光。　　943. A good name is easier [soon] lost (than won). 　　美名易失（難得）。　　944. Take honour from me and my life is done. 　　失去了名譽，也就失去了生命。　　945. Honour and profit lie not in one sack. 　　榮譽和私利，決不在一起。　　946. Honour to whom honour is due. 　　榮譽屬於應得之人。　　947. It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy. 　　寧可光榮死，不願羞辱生。　　948. Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory. 　　成功地擺脫逆境是無上的光榮。　　949. Your father』s honour is to you but a second-hand honour. 　　對你來說，父親的榮譽僅是間接的榮譽。　　950. Beware of him who regards not his reputation. 　　要謹防不尊重名譽之人。　　951. Honours change manners. 　　榮譽會改變人。　　952. Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault. 　　無功得名是常事，無過失名非少見。　　953. A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about. 美名不出門，惡名傳千里。 954. Vanity is the food of fools. 虛榮是傻瓜的食糧。955. Confidence is a plant of slow growth. 　　信任是一種生長緩慢的植物。　　956. Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him. 　　信任別人之前要先了解。　　957. If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die. 　　未經考驗就信任，不到瞑目便後悔。　　958. It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. 　　對一切人都信任和對所有人都不信任，二者都不可取。　　959. Be just to all, but trust not all. 　　要公正對待一切人，但不要對所有的人都信任。　　960. Trust not a great weight to a slender thread. 　　細線掛重物，終究靠不住。　　961. Never trust to fine words. 　　決不要輕信花言巧語。　　962. Never trust another what you should do yourself. 　　自己該做的事，決不要委託別人代做。　　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．金錢?財富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. 　　有錢就能賺錢。　　錢能生錢。　　970. Money makes the mare (to) go. 971. Money can buy the devil himself. 972. Money can move even the gods. 　　有錢能使鬼推磨。　　金錢萬能。　　973. Money is the key that opens all doors. 　　金錢是打開一切門戶之鑰匙。　　974. A golden key can open any door. 975. A golden key opens every door. 　　金鑰匙能打開任何一道門。　　金錢萬能。　　有錢能使鬼推磨。　　976. All things are obedient to money. 　　金錢主宰萬物。　　977. Who holds the purse rules the house. 　　有錢就有勢。　　978. Money will do anything. 　　有錢可辦一切事。　　979. Money talks. 　　金錢最有發言權。　　錢能通神。　　980. Money makes a man free everywhere. 　　手中有錢，到處自由。　　有錢路路通。　　981. Money makes a man welcome everywhere. 982. Money recommends a man everywhere. 有錢到處受歡迎。983. Before gold, even kings take off their hats. 　　在黃金面前，國王也行禮。　　984. A rich man』s joke is always funny. 　　富人的玩笑最有趣。　　985. The rich never want for kindred. 　　富人不缺親戚。　　986. Wealth makes worship. 　　財富能使人拜倒。　　987. A heavy purse makes a light heart. 　　袋裡有錢，心裡不慌。　　988. Wealth is the test of a man』s character. 　　金錢試人心。　　989. Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it. 　　財富不屬於擁有它的人，而屬於享用它的人。　　990. A light purse makes a heavy heart. 錢袋輕，心事重。　　為人無錢心事重。　　991. Wealth is best known by want. 　　缺錢方知錢珍貴。　　992. Beauty is potent, but money is more potent. 　　美貌固有力，金錢力更大。　　993. Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. 　　相信金錢萬能的人，常常會一切為了金錢。　　994. Avarice increases with wealth. 　　越有錢，越貪錢。　　995. Money has no smell. 　　金錢無人味。　　996. The money the miser boards will do him no good. 　　守財奴斂財，對己毫無好處。　　997. The chief aim of man is not to get money. 　　人的主要目的並非為了掙錢。　　998. Gold will not buy anything. 　　金錢並非可以買到一切。　　999. Money isn』t everything. 　　金錢並非就是一切。　　金錢並非萬能。　　1000. Money could not buy happiness. 　　 金錢買不到幸福。　　1001. Riches do not always bring happiness. 財富並不總是帶來幸福。1002. A moneyless man goes fast through the market. 　　 身無分文過市快。　　1003. All is not gold that glitters. 　　 閃閃發光物，未必盡黃金。　　1004. Money does not grow on trees. 　　 金錢並非長在樹上。　　1005. Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. 　　 辛苦掙得，謹慎保存，唯恐失掉。　　1006. Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. 　　 財富得之辛苦，存之謹慎，失之悲切。　　1007. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. 　　 智力投資決不會白花。　　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. 　　 金錢是罪惡之源。　　1011. Money is the sinews of war. 　　 金錢是戰爭的命脈。　　1012. Money is a good servant, but a bad master. 　　 金錢是忠僕，用之不當成惡主。　　1013. Riches either serve or govern the possessor. 　　 財富要麼侍奉主人，要麼支配主人。　　1014. Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. 　　 財富侍奉智者，但卻指揮傻瓜。　　1015. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience and truth may be drowned. 　　 金錢之海深無底，淹沒榮譽、良心和真理。　　1016. Muck and money go together. 　　 金錢與污穢同在。　　 富者不潔，潔者不富。　　1017. Riches and virtue do not often keep each other company. 　　 財富和美德，常常不相伴。　　 富者無德，有德者不富。 1018. A rolling stone gathers no moss. 　　 滾石不粘青苔。　　 轉業不積財。　　1019. It is easier to get money than to keep it. 　　 掙錢容易攢錢難。　　 生財容易守財難。　　1020. Wealth is easier gained than guided. 　　 發財容易理財難。　　 創業容易守業難。　　1021. Little wealth, little care. 　　 財富少，煩惱少。　　1022. Riches bring care and fear. 　　 財富帶來憂慮和恐懼。1023. What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy? 　　 如果財富帶來憂鬱，有它又有何用？ 1024. Riches have wings. 　　 錢財易散。　　1025. Easy come, easy go. 錢財來得快，去得也快。1026. Money is round, and rolls away. 　　 金錢圓溜溜，一來就滾走。　　1027. Money is wise, it knows its way. 　　 金錢聰明，知道路徑。　　 金錢一到手，馬上就跑走。　　1028. Your money burns (a hole) in your pocket. 錢燒口袋漏，一有就不留。1029. Ill gotten [got] ill spent. 1030. Ill-gotten, ill spent. 　　 來得邪惡，用得不正。　　1031. Ill-gotten gains [goods] never prosper. 1032. Ill gotten money is soon spent. 　　 不義之財揮霍得快。　　1033. Ill-gotten wealth never thrive. 不義之財永遠不會發家。1034. When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind. 借錢給人是朋友，討帳要錢成仇人。20．生活?健康1035. Life is sweet. 　　 生活是可愛的。　　1036. There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world』s trade. 　　 要想明白事理，須作長期學徒。　　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. 　　 眼前發生許多事，有些我們不知覺。　　1039. Life is not all beer and skittles. 　　 生活並非就是吃喝玩樂。　　1040. He that will thrive must rise at five. 　　 五點起床，百業興旺。　　1041. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 　　 早睡早起，使人健康、富有和聰明。　　1042. Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark. 　　 隨羊羔就寢，與雲雀同起。　　1043. Who makes everything right must rise early. 　　 要把事事全乾好，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. 　　 白天戴帽可隨意，晚上戴帽是必須。　　1047. After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. 　　 正餐之後，休息片刻；晚餐之後，步行一哩。　　1048. When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest. 　　 腹飽思睡眠。　　1049. Often and little eating makes a man fat. 　　 多餐少吃，使人壯碩。　　1050. Enough is as good as a feast. 　　 飽食猶如赴宴。　　1051. Don』t throw away the apple because of the core. 　　 勿因噎廢食。　　1052. A light heart lives long. 　　 心胸開朗，使人長壽。　　1053. He lives long that lives well. 　　 活得好就是活得長。　　 生活有價值就是長壽。　　1054. A happy heart makes a blooming visage. 　　 心中快樂，容光煥發。　　1055. Where there is life, there is hope. 　　 生命不息，希望長在。　　1057. Art is long, life is short. 　　 藝術恆久，生命短暫。　　1058. A little labour, much health. 　　 適量的勞動可以大大地增進健康。　　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. 身體健康是一切幸福的基礎。1062. The first wealth is health. 1063. There is no wealth above the wealth of health. 1064. There is no greater riches than health. 　　 健康是最大的財富。　　1065. Health is better than wealth. 1066. Good health is above wealth. 1067. Health surprises riches. 　　 健康勝於財富。　　1068. Health is a jewel [treasure]. 1069. Health is great riches. 　　 健康猶如珠寶。　　1070. A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold. 　　 健康的身體比金冕更有價值。　　1071. Health and strength is above all gold. 　　 健康與強身遠比黃金貴。1072. Wealth is nothing without health. 　　 沒有健康，財富毫無意義。　　1073. He who hath good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing. 　　 健康葆青春，無債即富有。　　1074. A sound mind in a sound body. 1075. A healthy mind is in a healthy body. 　　 有健康的身體，就有健康的思想。　　1076. The healthful man can give counsel to the sick. 　　 健康者可以對病人提出忠告。　　1077. Study sickness while you are well. 　　 無病應思有病時。　　1078. Health is not valued till sickness comes. 　　 不到病時不知健康的寶貴。　　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. 　　 病中方知健康寶貴。　　1081. Sickness is felt, but health not at all. 有病感覺到，健康不知曉。1082. By the side of sickness health becomes sweet. 與疾病相比，才顯得健康的可愛。 1083. Life is lifeless without health. 沒有健康生活就沒有意義。1084. Without health life is no life. 　　 失去健康，生活就不成其為生活。 沒有健康生活就沒有意義。1085. Health does not consist with intemperance. 　　 健康與縱慾難相容。21．疾病?醫治1086. Diseases are the price of ill pleasures.　　 疾病是縱慾的代價。　　1087. Sickness shows us what we are. 　　 疾病使人顯本相。　　1088. Desperate diseases must have desperate cures. 　　 惡病要用猛葯醫。　　1089. A disease known is half cured. 　　 弄清病情，病除一半。1090. Lack of work brings a thousand diseases. 　　 缺乏勞動，便生百病。　　1091. Agues come on horseback but go away on foot. 1092. Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot. 　　 病來如牆倒，病去如抽絲。　　1093. Diseases enter by the mouth. 病從口入。1094. Many dishes, many diseases. 食得多，疾病多。1095. The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman. 　　 節食，靜心和愉快是卻病延年之良方。　　1096. Feed sparingly [by measure] and defy the physician. 　　 飲食有節，醫生絕跡。　　1097. Temperance is the best physic. 　　 節慾是最好的藥品。　　1098. Fasting is the best medicine. 　　 節食是良藥。　　1099. Diet cures more than doctors [pills]. 　　 食療勝於醫療。　　1100. Digging your grave with your own teeth. 　　 狂飲暴食自掘墳墓。　　1101. A good surgeon must have an eagle』s eye, a lion』s, and a lady』s hand. 　　 好醫生必須具有鷹眼、獅心和女人手。　　1102. He who never was sick dies the first (fit). 1103. He who was never sick dies the first fit. 　　 從來不病，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. 　　 不要諱疾忌醫。　　1106. Prevention is better than cure. 　　 預防勝於治療。　　1107. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 　　 一份預防勝似十份治療。　　1108. A good medicine tastes bitter. 　　 良藥苦口。　　1109. Bitter pills may have wholesome effort. 　　 良藥苦口利於病。　　1110. Medicines are not meant to live on. 　　 不可指望靠吃藥生活。　　1111. Feed a cold and starve a fever.　　 傷風宜吃，發熱宜餓。　　1112. Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body. 　　 心靈上的疾病比身體上的疾病更危險。　　1113. No herb will cure love. 相思病無葯可治。22．生老?死別1114. Eat to live, but not live to eat. 　　 人吃飯是為了活著，而活著不是為了吃飯。　　1115. Live not to eat, but eat to live. 　　 人活著不是為了吃飯，但吃飯是為了活著。　　1116. Live and let live. 　　 自己活，也讓別人活。　　1117. He lives twice who lives well. 　　 活得有價值就等於有兩次生命。　　1118. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. 　　 生於富貴之家。　　1119. We are not born for ourselves. 　　 人生天地間，並非為自己。　　1120. He that hath time hath life. 　　 時間長駐，生命不息。　　1121. They who live longest will see most. 　　 壽長見識廣。　　1122. He that lives long suffers much. 　　 壽長憂患多。 1123. Men live like fish, the great ones devour the small. 　　 人生猶如魚，大魚吃小魚。1124. As the life is, so is the end. 　　 人怎樣活著必怎樣死去。　　 善有善報，惡有惡報。　　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，難逃死亡。1128. Praise no man till he is dead. 　　 人未死，莫稱讚。　　 蓋棺論定。1129. There is no medicine against death. 　　 人間沒有回春藥。　　1130. Man is mortal. 1131. Men are mortal. 1132. All men are mortal. 1133. All men must die. 1134. All that lives must die. 　　 人總是會死的。　　 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). 　　 一死百債清。　　 人死百債了。　　1146. Death frees us from ills. 　　 死亡使我們解脫不幸。　　1147. Death is the grand [great] leveller. 1148. Death levels all men. 　　 死亡面前，不分貴賤。　　1149. Death spares neither small nor great. 　　 人物不分大小，死神一概不饒。　　 黃泉路上無貴賤。　　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，貧富平等。　　1152. The end makes all equal. 　　 死亡面前，人人平等。　　1153. We shall lie all alike in our graves. 　　 一朝進墳場，人人都一樣。　　1154. He that liveth in court dieth upon straw. 　　 生於安樂者常死於貧賤。 1155. A ground sweat cures all disorders. 　　 人死解脫了煩惱。　　一死百了。　　1156. Death defies the doctor. 　　 死亡蔑視醫生。　　1157. After death, the doctor. 　　 人死醫生來。　　 雨後送傘。　　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. 　　 死人沒有同夥。　　 人死口閉。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. 　　 人死之前說不上幸福。1164. Only the good die young. 1165. The best go first. 　　 好人不長壽。　　1166. Those whom the gods love die young. 　　 神之所愛，英年早逝。　　 好人不長壽。1167. Better a glorious death than a shameful life. 1168. Better die with honour than live with shame. 　　 與其忍辱偷生，不如光榮而死。　　 寧為玉碎，不為瓦全。　　1169. An honourable death is better than a disgraceful life. 1170. Better to die in glory than live in dishonour. 　　 死得高尚勝過活的卑劣。　　1171. A fair death honours the whole life. 死得高尚，一生榮光。1172. Better die standing than live kneeling. 1173. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. 寧願站著死，不願跪著生。 1174. He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly. 　　 過著邪惡生活的人不會正直地死去。　　1175. Death meets us everywhere. 　　 人生處處皆會死。23．貧窮?苦難1176. Poverty is the mother of health. 　　 貧窮乃健康之母。　　1177. Poverty is not a crime. 　　 貧窮不為罪。　　1178. Poverty is no sin. 　　 貧窮並非罪惡。　　1179. Poverty is not a disgrace, but theft is a disgrace. 　　 貧窮不為恥，盜竊乃足羞。　　1180. Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace. 　　 貧困雖痛苦，但並非是恥辱。　　1181. Poverty is no disgrace. 　　 貧困非恥辱。　　1182. Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself, is a disgrace. 　　 貧窮不足為恥，但貧窮而不能自立才為恥。　　1183. Poor and content is rich and rich enough. 　　 人能安貧就是富。　　1184. Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty. 　　 不要因為害怕貧窮而放棄自由。　　1185. Better be poor than wicked. 　　 寧做窮人，不做壞人。　　1186. Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. 　　 唯有貧窮可以不勞而獲。　　1187. Poverty and love are hard to hide. 貧窮和愛情，兩者難隱瞞。1188. Poverty breeds strife. 貧窮引起衝突。1189. Poverty parteth fellowship. 貧窮斷友情。1190. Poverty makes a man mean. 貧窮使人小氣。1191. Poverty on an old man』s back is a heavy burden. 老而貧窮，負擔最重。1192. Be considerate toward the poor. 應為窮人多著想。1193. Poor without debt is better than a prince. 窮人無債勝似王子。1194. Happy is he who owes nothing. 無債一身輕。1195. The poor man wants much, the miser everything. 窮人要得多，守財奴則樣樣都要。1196. Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all. 　　 窮人缺乏許多東西，財迷想要所有東西。　　1197. A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich. 窮人眼中一隻養，貴似富人一頭牛。 1198. Poor and liberal, rich and covetous. 　　 窮人常大方，富人反貪婪。　　 窮大方，富貪婪。　　1199. Poor folk [men] are fain of little. 　　 窮人無奢望。　　 窮人易滿足。　　1200. The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor. 富人口中的美味是窮人的眼淚。1201. Beggars must [should] be no choosers. 飢不擇食。 乞丐豈能挑肥揀瘦。1202. Hunger is the best sauce. 飢者口中盡佳肴。 飢餓之時，樣樣好吃。1203. Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt. 與其負債起身，不如空腹上床。1204. He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. 　　 向人借債，陷入悲哀。　　1205. Money borrowed is soon sorrowed. 　　 借錢才到手，馬上便憂愁。　　1206. No cross, no crown. 　　 沒有十字架，就沒有王冠。　　 無苦即無樂。　　1207. Every heart knows its own bitterness. 　　 各人的苦惱自己知。　　1208. A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt. 　　 深憂償不了小債。　　1209. Out of debt, out of danger. 　　 脫離債務即脫離危險。　　1210. Company in distress makes trouble [the sorrow] less. 　　 同病相憐，痛苦減輕。24．損失?失敗1211. Losses make us more cautious. 　　 損失使人謹慎。　　1212. We know not what is good until we have lost it. 　　 我們失去某種東西時才覺得它珍貴。　　1213. A horse stumbles that has four legs. 　　人有失手日，馬有失蹄時。 1214. Light come, light go. 　　 來得容易去得快。　　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. 　　 樣樣都要，全部失掉。　　1218. Better lose the saddle than the horse. 　　 與其丟鞍，不可失馬。　　1219. If I have lost the ring, yet the fingers are still here. 　　 丟了戒指，手指還在。　　 留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒。　　1220. Sometimes gain is to lose. 　　 有時得即是失。　　1221. For a lost thing cares nothing. 　　 一物既失，計較無益。　　1222. What』s lost is lost. 　　 失去的不可復得。　　1223. You cannot lose what you never had. 不曾擁有的，永遠不會失去。1224. He who does not gain loses. 　　 不能得就是失。　　1225. You must lose a fly to catch a trout. 　　 捨得魚餌方能釣到大魚。　　 小錢不去，大錢不來。　　1226. All is not lost that is in danger. 　　 危險之中物，未必會皆失。　　1227. No great loss but some small profit. 1228. No great loss without some small profit. 　　 大失去必有小得。　　 塞翁失馬，焉知非福。　　1229. One never loses anything by politeness. 　　 禮多不吃虧。　　 禮多人不怪。　　1230. What is lost in the hundred will be found in the shire. 　　 此地失則彼地得。　　1231. What we lose in hake we shall have in herring. 　　 失之東隅，收之桑榆。　　1232. We lose in hake, but gain in herring. 　　 此失彼得。　　 失之東隅，收之桑榆。　　1233. Either win the horse or lose the saddle. 　　 不是全贏，就是皆輸。　　1234. One careless move loses the whole game. 　　 一著不慎，滿盤皆輸。　　1235. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. 　　 無論怎樣的惡風，也不會把每個人都吹得不舒服。　　 沒有使人人都倒霉的壞事。　　 害於此則利於彼。　　1236. There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. 　　 海中好魚取不盡。　　 一次損失則還有彌補機會。　　1237. Many a slip [Many things fall] between the cup and the lip. 　　 杯到唇邊，未必喝到酒。　　 凡事皆有不測風雲。　　1238. Merry is he that hath nought to lose. 　　 無可失去的人快樂無窮。　　1239. Who loses liberty loses all. 　　 失去自由便失去一切。　　1240. Only that which is honestly got is gain. 　　 只有正當的收入才算是收入。　　1241. All is not gain that is put in the purse. 　　 裝進錢袋之物未必皆是正當收入。　　1242. Do not run too fast after gain. 　　 不要見利就狂追。　　1243. Prefer loss to unjust gain. 　　 寧可遭損失，不取不義財。1244. Failure is the mother of success. 1245. Failure teaches success. 　　 失敗是成功之母。　　1246. The weakest goes to the wall. 　　 弱者敗北。　　1247. Failure is the only high-road to success. 　　 唯有失敗才是通向成功的康庄大道。　　1248. Failure in a great enterprise is at least a noble fault. 偉大事業的失敗至少是高尚的過失。1249. Losers are always in the wrong. 失敗之人受咎多。 成功者為王，失敗者為寇。 1250. Loners are losers. 　　孤立者即失敗者。　　誰孤立，誰失敗。25．缺點?錯誤1251. Each man has his limitations. 　　 人人都有其局限性。　　 人皆有短。　　 人無完人，金無足金。　　1252. Every man hath [has] his faults. 　　 人皆有過。　　1253. Every man has defects of his own virtues [his qualities]. 1254. Everybody has his merits and faults. 　　 人有所長，亦有所短。　　 人人皆有優缺點。　　1255. Everybody has some weak spot. 1256. Every man has his weak side. 　　 凡人都有自己的不足。　　 人皆有不足之處。　　1257. There is no man but errs. 1258. There is no man but has his faults. 1259. There is no man without faults. 　　 沒有無過失的人。　　 金無足金，人無完人。　　1260. Every bean has its black. 　　 顆顆豆子有黑嘴。　　 人皆有短。　　1261. There are spots (even) in [on] the sun. 　　 太陽也有黑點。　　 金無足金，人無完人。　　1262. To err is Humane. 　　 犯錯誤乃人之常情。　　 人非聖賢，孰能無過？　　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. 　　 世上無完人。　　 人非聖賢，孰能無過？1268. It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool preserves in the error. 　　 人的特點是都會犯錯誤，但只有傻瓜在堅持錯誤。　　1269. It is a fairy wood that has never a withered bough in it. 　　 再好的樹林也會有枯枝。　　1270. A spot is most seen on the finest cloth. 　　 最精細的布上的疵點最顯眼。　　1271. Even Homer sometimes nods. 　　 荷馬有時也會打瞌睡。　　 智者千慮，必有一失。　　1272. He is lifeless that is faultless. 　　 死人才無過。　　 人孰能無過？　　1273. He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing. 　　 無錯之人，一事無成。　　 人若無錯，事事難做。　　1274. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. 　　 不犯錯誤的人往往是不干事的人。　　 不出差錯的人干不出什麼事來。　　1275. Every dog is allowed his first bite. 　　 狗咬初次人不怪。　　 人錯首次不受責。　　1276. A fault confessed is half redressed. 　　 承認錯誤等於改正了一半。　　1277. A fault denied is twice committed. 　　 不承認錯誤就是再犯錯誤。　　1278. A little neglect may breed great mischief. 　　 小失成大害。　　 小誤釀大錯。　　1279. One false move may lose the game. 一著走錯，滿盤皆輸。1280. One false step will make a great difference. 　　 一步失誤，鑄成大錯。　　 失之毫釐，謬以千里。　　 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. 　　 失之毫釐，差以千里。　　1283. Every one』s faults are not written in their foreheads. 　　 人人有錯，隱藏不露。　　1284. There are faults from which none of us is [are] free.　　 有些錯誤是任何人都避免不了的。　　1285. The pot calls the kettle black. 　　 鍋子嫌罐黑。　　 責人嚴而責己寬。　　 自己有過而責怪別人。　　1286. The kettle calls the pot black. 　　 水壺嫌鍋黑。　　 烏鴉笑黑豬。　　1287. We see not what is in the wallet behind. 　　 人人都看不見自己背後包里的東西。　　 人人都看不見自己的缺點。　　1288. Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs. 　　 欲責他人，先知己過。　　 正人先正己。　　1289. They [People] who live in glass houses should not throw stones. 　　 自己有弱點就別說別人的壞話。　　1290. Men too seldom see their own faults. 　　 人很少看見自己的過失。　　1291. The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. 　　 最大的錯誤是不知錯。1292. A good marksman may miss. 　　 神射手也有失誤的時候。　　1293. The best man stumbles. 　　 再好的人也會絆倒。　　 再好的人也會出錯。　　1294. The best of us can make mistakes. 　　 再傑出的人也會出錯。　　 智者千慮，必有一失。　　1295. It is a good horse that never stumbles; and a good wife that never grumbles. 　　 再好的馬也會失蹄，再好的妻子也會嘮叨。　　1296. It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none. 再乾淨的嘴也會吐惡言，再善良的心也會想壞事。1297. It is a skillful technician that never blunders. 1298. The best workman sometimes blunders. 　　 技術再高的工匠也會出差錯。　　 智者千慮，必有一失。　　1299. It is a wise man that makes no mistakes. 1300. It is a wise man that never makes mistakes. 再聰明的人也會做錯事。1301. Great men have great faults. 　　 偉大人物也會有巨大的過失。　　1302. One who never made a mistake, never made anything. 　　 不犯錯誤的人必然一事無成。　　1303. Never too late to mend. 1304. It is never too late to mend. 　　 補過不嫌晚。　　 悔過不嫌遲。　　 亡羊補牢，猶未為晚。　　1305. Two blacks do not make a white. 　　 兩黑不等於一白。　　 兩個錯並不等於一個對。　　1306. Two wrongs don』t make a right. 　　 兩個錯並不等於一個對。　　1307. Wrong never comes right. 錯的永遠對不了。26．經驗?教訓1308. Experience is the best teacher. 　　 經驗是最好的老師。　　1309. Experience does it. 1310. Experience teaches. 　　 經驗誨人。　　 經驗給人智慧。　　1311. Experience is a long way. 經驗需要長期積累。1312. Experience is the mother [father] of knowledge. 　　 經驗是知識之母[父]。　　 知識來自實踐。　　1313. Experience is the mother [father] of wisdom. 　　 經驗是智慧之母[父]。　　 智慧來自實踐。　　1314. Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother. 　　 經驗是智慧之父，記憶是智慧之母。 1315. Dexterity comes by experience. 　　 熟練來自經驗。　　1316. Wit once bought is worth twice taught. 　　 一次親身體會，勝於兩次別人教誨。　　1317. Experience without learning is better than learning without experience. 　　 有經驗而無學問，勝於有學問而無經驗。1318. Experience is the mistress of fools. 　　 經驗教導愚人。　　 愚蠢的人從自己的錯誤中吸取教訓。　　1319. Experience is the teacher of fools.1320. Experience teaches fools.　　 經驗是愚人的老師。　　 愚蠢的人從自己的錯誤中吸取教訓。　　1321. Experience teaches fools, and he is a great one that will not learn by it.　　 經驗教訓傻瓜，而不從中吸取教訓的人是大傻瓜。　　1322. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other. 　　 經驗學府學費高，愚人別處學不到。　　1323. Experience is a school from which you can never graduate. 　　 經驗是一所永遠畢業不了的學校。　　1324. Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly. 　　 經驗不開學校，她只單獨傳授。　　 不經一事，不長一智。　　1325. Every failure one meets with adds to one』s experience. 遭受一次失敗，增加一份經驗。　　 吃一塹，長一智。　　1326. The reward of suffering is experience. 經驗是對痛苦的報償。1327. Experience must be bought. 　　 經驗需要花錢買。　　 不吃一塹，不長一智。　　1328. Experience is the fruit of the tree of errors. 　　 經驗是謬誤之樹所結之果。　　1329. Experience is sometimes dangerous. 　　 經驗有時有害。1330. Once bit [bitten], twice shy. 　　 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕草繩。　　1331. A burnt child dreads the fire. 1332. The burnt child fears the fire. 1333. Burnt bairns dread the fire. 　　 一次被火燒，見火就害怕。　　 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。　　1334. He who has burnt his mouth blows his soup. 　　 燙過嘴的人總是吹湯。　　1335. A scalded cat dreads [fears] (even) cold water. 1336. The scalded cat fears cold water. 　　 挨過燙的貓連冷水也怕。　　 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。　　1337. The scalded dog fears cold water.　　 挨過燙的狗連冷水也怕。　　1338. A scalded dog thinks cold water hot. 挨過燙的狗以為冷水也熱。　　 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。　　1339. The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow. 　　 挨過棒打的狗見了棒影都怕。　　1340. He that has [hath] been bitten by a serpent, is afraid of a rope. 　　 被蛇咬過的人，見了繩子都怕。　　 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。　　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. 　　 被蛇咬過的人，見了蜥蜴都怕。　　 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。　　1344. Avoid the ford on which your friend was drowned. 　　 朋友溺水處，淺灘也卻步。　　 前事不忘，後事之師。　　 前車之轍，後車可鑒。　　1345. By other』s faults wise men correct their own. 　　 聰明的人從別人的錯誤中吸取教訓。　　 前車之轍，後車可鑒。　　1346. He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others. 　　 智者從別人的不幸中獲取教訓。　　1347. It is good to beware by other men』s harm. 　　 從他人的傷害中吸取教訓是有好處的。　　1348. Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own. 　　 引他人之失誤為教訓。　　1349. One man』s fault is another man』s lesson. 　　 一人之錯，他人之鑒。　　1350. Other people』s defects are good teachers. 他人之誤為良師。27．命運?挫折1351. Fortune favours the bold. 　　 命運之神保佑勇者。　　1352. Fortune knocks once at least at every man』s door. 　　 人人都有走運的一天。　　1353. The worse luck now, the better another time. 　　 今朝運氣不佳，他日時來運轉。　　1354. If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you. 　　 運氣太好，不認自己；運氣太壞，無人理睬。　　1355. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. 　　 惡運臨頭後，方知幸運貴。　　1356. Fortune is variant. 　　 命運變幻莫測。　　1357. Misfortunes come at night. 　　 禍常生於不測。　　1358. An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup. 　　 不幸的人掉在茶杯里也會淹死。　　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. 　　 禍不單行。　　1367. Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by the ounce. 1368. Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot. 　　 災禍成堆來，離去慢騰騰。 1369. There is no escape [flying] from fate. 　　 在劫難逃。　　1370. No fence against (an) ill fortune. 1371. No fence against [for] ill fortune. 　　 籬笆擋不住惡運。　　 惡運難逃。　　1372. Misfortune is a good teacher. 　　 不幸是位好老師。　　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. 　　 災難是人生真正的試金石。　　1375. The longest day must have an end. 　　 不幸的日子總會過去。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. 　　 要吃雞蛋就不要討厭母雞的咯咯叫。　　 要享受就得吃點苦頭。1378. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. 　　 患難能使人聰明，但不能使人富有。　　1379. Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. 逆境給人教益。1380. Adversity is a good discipline. 1381. Adversity is a good [great] schoolmaster. 　　 困境是最好的磨練。 1382. There is a crook [affliction, trial] in the lot of every one. 　　 人生總有倒霉事。　　 人生總有坎坷不平。　　1383. He that is down, down with him. 　　 人一倒，眾人踩。　　 牆倒眾人推。　　1384. When a man is going down-hill, everyone will give him a push. 　　 人走下坡路，人人把他推。　　 牆倒眾人推。　　1385. When the tree is fallen, every one runs to it with his axe. 　　 大樹一倒下，人人拿斧來。　　1386. Mischief has swift wings. 　　 災禍飛來疾。 1387. An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. 　　 一分運氣勝過十分才氣。　　 有才氣不如有運氣。28．沉默?孤寂1388. Speech is silver [silvern], (but) silence is gold [golden]. 　　 言語是銀，沉默是金。　　1389. Silence is golden, but speech is silver [silvern]. 　　 沉默是金，雄辯是銀。　　 沉默勝於雄辯。　　1390. There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. 該說話的時候說話，該沉默的時候沉默。 1391. Silence gives [means] consent. 　　 沉默表示同意。 1392. Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. 　　 沉默有時是最嚴厲的批評。　　1393. No wisdom like silence. 　　 聰明莫過沉默。　　1394. Silence does seldom harm. 　　 口不開，禍不來。　　1395. The least said, the soonest mended. 　　 話越少越好。　　 話少易改。　　1396. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. 　　 多聽少說。　　1397. Still waters run deep. 　　 靜水流深。　　1398. Silence is the best ornament of a woman. 　　 沉默是女人的最好裝飾。　　1399. The best [greatest] fish keep [swim near] the bottom. 　　 好魚水底游。　　 有價值的東西不能輕易得到。　　1400. After a storm comes a calm. 　　 暴風雨後天平靜。　　 雨過天晴。　　1401. Quietness is best. 　　 寧靜最好。　　1402. Woe to him that is alone. 孤獨的人最可悲。29．外表?虛假1403. Appearance often deceives. 1404. Appearances are (often) deceive. 　　 外表常具欺騙性。　　 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. 　　 不可根據外貌判斷。　　 不可以貌取人。1409. Men are not to be measured by (in) inches. 　　 人不可以身材高低來衡量。　　 人不可貌相。　　1410. Men』s characters are not always written on their foreheads. 　　 人品不一定都寫在額頭上。　　 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. 　　 不可憑最初的印象看人論事。　　1413. Don』t look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains. 不要只看瓶子，而要看瓶子里裝著什麼。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. 　　 美麗只是皮相。　　 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. 　　 外善內奸。　　 金玉其外，敗絮其中。　　1420. A fair face (but) foul heart. 　　 面孔漂亮，內心骯髒。　　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. 　　 人品好壞，不在穿戴。　　 好馬不在鞍，人美不在衫。　　1423. Fine feathers do not make fine birds. 　　 羽色美不見得鳥就美。　　 好馬不在鞍，人美不在衫。　　1424. It is not only the feather that makes the bird. 　　 鳥美不單憑羽毛。　　1425. The face is no index to the heart. 　　 面孔反映不出內心。　　 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. 　　 衣著予人風采。　　 人靠衣服馬靠鞍。　　1429. Fair feathers make fair fowls. 1430. Fine feathers make fine birds. 　　 漂亮的羽毛會使鳥美。　　1431. The face is the index of heart [mind]. 　　 面孔反映內心。　　 觀面便知心。1432. A good face is a letter of recommendation. 　　 漂亮的面孔就是一封推薦信。　　1433. A fair face may hide a foul heart. 　　 漂亮面孔後面可能隱藏著一顆齷齪的心。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來的那樣。　　 事物往往名不符實。1436. All are not saints that go to church. 　　 到教堂做禮拜的未必都是聖徒。　　1437. He looks like a saint but the devil he is. 　　 看上去像聖人，其實是魔鬼。　　 道貌岸然，內心兇殘。　　1438. I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts. 　　 希臘人帶禮物來，沒安好心。　　1439. A crown is no cure for the headache. 　　 王冠難治頭痛。　　1440. Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup. 　　 縱然裝入金杯，毒藥還是毒藥。　　1441. A forced kindness deserves no thanks. 　　 虛情假意不值得感謝。　　1442. Empty vessels make the greatest sound. 　　 一瓶不響，半瓶晃蕩。　　1443. Vain glory blossoms but never bears. 　　 虛榮可以開花，但不會結果。　　1444. False with one can be false with two. 　　 對一個人虛假，也會對兩個人虛假。30．憤怒?妒忌1445. A little pot [pan] is soon hot. 　　 壺小易熱。　　 量小易怒。　　1446. A penny soul never came to twopence. 氣量狹小難成大事。　　 斤斤計較少有成功。　　1447. Anger and haste hinder good counsel. 亂忙和生氣，聽不進好主意。1448. Anger is a short madness. 　　 憤怒乃一時之狂。　　1449. Anger punishes itself. 　　 氣大傷身。　　1450. When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears. 　　 憤怒喪失理智，真理便會消失。　　1451. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. 　　 胸中有氣，張嘴之前數到十；怒氣衝天，不妨來回數十多幾邊。　　1452. Anger rusts intellects so that it cannot discern right from wrong. 　　 怒火鏽蝕理智，令人難辨是非。　　1453. Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. 憤怒起於愚魯，而終於悔恨。1454. Anger rests in the bosom of folly. 　　 怒氣鬱積愚者胸中。1455. Envy ceaseth after death. 人死妒方止。1456. Envy never dies. 妒火永不滅。1457. Envy never enriched any man. 妒忌決不會使人富裕。1458. Envy shoots at others and wounds herself. 妒箭射他人，傷的是自己。1459. Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak. 　　 位高遭人妒，峰高招風怒。　　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．懶惰?惡行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. 　　 懶惰乃萬惡之源。　　1465. Of idleness comes no goodness. 　　 一懶生百邪。1466. Idleness is the key of beggary. 　　 懶惰出乞丐。　　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. 　　 懶人做工作，越懶越費勁。1472. He who does not work neither shall he eat. 　　 不勞動者不得食。　　 不勞無獲。　　1473. An idle youth, a needy age. 1474. A young man idle, an old man needy. 1475. Idle young, needy age [old]. 　　 少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。　　1476. An idle brain is the devil』s workshop. 1477. An idle person is the devil』s cusion. 　　 懶漢的頭腦是魔鬼的工廠。　　 遊手好閒乃萬惡之源。1478. If the devil finds a man idle, he』ll set him to work. 　　 魔鬼發現有人懶，就會和他一起干。　　 魔鬼專找懶漢。1479. Idle folks lack no excuses. 　　 懶漢不愁沒有借口。　　1480. The tongue of idle persons is never idle. 　　 人懶嘴不懶。　　1481. Sloth is the key of [to] poverty. 　　 惰能致貧。　　1482. Poverty is the reward of idleness. 貧困是對懶惰的懲罰。1483. An idle soul shall suffer hunger. 懶惰之人必受飢餓之苦。1484. Sloth turneth the edge of wit. 1485. Idleness turns the edge of wit. 　　 懶散能磨去才智的鋒芒。　　1486. Idleness rusts the mind. 1487. Idleness is the rust of mind. 1488. Idleness makes the wit rust. 怠惰使頭腦遲鈍。1489. An ill life, an ill end. 1490. Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited. 　　 惡有惡報。　　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. 　　 罪惡之心，恐慌不安。　　 做賊心虛。　　1495. Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow. 　　 在罪惡中游泳的人，必將在悲哀中沉沒。　　1496. Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people. 　　 對罪犯的仁慈，就是對人民的殘忍。　　1497. A wicked man is his own hell. 　　 惡人作惡，自造地獄。　　1498. Evil weed is soon grown. 1499. Ill weeds are sure to thrive. 1500. Ill weeds grow apace [fast]. 　　 莠草滋生快。　　 惡習易染。　　1501. An evil lesson is soon learned. 　　 惡行易學。　　1502. That which is evil is soon learnt. 　　 惡習易染。　　1503. Black will take no other hue. 　　 黑色難以再染。　　 朽木不可雕。　　 惡習難改。　　1504. Evil (be) to him who evil thinks. 　　 邪念禍其身。　　 心懷邪念，禍臨其身。1505. Better be upright and want, than wicked and have abundance. 　　 寧可正直窮困，不可富而不仁。1506. No vice goes alone. 1507. Ill comes often on the back of worse. 　　 惡不單行。　　1508. He who has done ill once will do it again. 　　 壞事干一次，便有第二次。　　1509. One sin opens the door for another. 　　 一個罪惡為另一個罪惡開門。　　 壞事干一次，便有第二次。　　1510. Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches. 　　 惡行於人，尺進寸退。　　1511. They that do nothing learn to do ill. 　　 遊手好閒，容易學壞。　　1512. Those who eat best and drink best often do worst. 　　 只圖吃好穿好，學壞常常免不了。　　1513. No good building without a good foundation. 　　 上樑不正下樑歪。　　 沒有好的基礎，就沒有好的建築。　　1514. Young saints, old devils. 　　 少時是聖徒，大時成魔鬼。　　 少時聖潔老邪惡。　　1515. Of evil grain, no good seed can come. 　　 壞谷無好種。　　1516. Evil communications corrupt good manners. 　　 不良的交往，敗壞良好的品行。　　1517. Vice rules where gold reigns. 　　 金錢統治之處，邪惡主宰一切。　　1518. The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues. 　　 行惡的代價十倍於行善。　　1519. A bad thing never dies. 　　 壞事傳千年。 1520. Bad news has wings. 1521. Ill news comes [travels] apace. 1522. Ill news flies [travels] fast.　　 好事不出門，壞時傳千里。　　1523. The evil wound is cured but not the evil name. 　　 重傷可醫，惡名難去。　　1524. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 　　 寬恕壞人就是傷害好人。1525. He that spares the bad injures the good. 　　 放縱壞人就是傷害好人。　　1526. He that helpeth the evil hurteth the good. 助惡就是傷害善良。1527. Do not hold a candle to the devil. 　　 不要替魔鬼拿蠟燭照明。　　 不要為虎作倀。　　 切莫助紂為虐。　　1528. A willful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon. 　　 故意之錯不可寬恕。　　1529. Evil [Ill]will never said well. 　　 惡意無善言。　　 狗嘴裡吐不出象牙。　　1530. He who avoids temptation avoids the sin. 　　 不受誘惑就免於罪惡。　　1531. The evil (evils) we bring on ourselves is [are] hardest to bear. 自找之罪最難受。1532. No wrong without remedy. 　　 罪過之病皆有良藥。　　 有過皆可補。　　1533. Take a hair of the dog that bit you. 　　 以毒攻毒。　　1534. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. 　　 問心無愧，打雷也能睡。　　1535. Guilty consciences always make people [men] cowards. 　　 良心壞了膽自小。　　 做賊心虛。　　1536. He that lives ill, fear follows him. 　　 做了虧心事，恐懼緊相隨。　　1537. He who has no shame has no conscience. 　　 不知羞恥的人不知自疚。　　1538. Once a knave, ever a knave. 　　 一次成無賴，永遠是無賴。　　1539. Once a devil, always a devil. 　　 一次做魔鬼，永遠是魔鬼。　　1540. A crafty knave needs no broker. 　　 狡猾的無賴不需要中間人。　　1541. Never hang a man twice for one offence. 一罪不可兩治。32．驕傲?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. 　　 驕者必敗。　　1546. Human pride is human weakness. 　　 驕傲乃人類的弱點。　　1547. Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 1548. Pride goes before, and shame follows after. 1549. When pride rides, shame lacqueys. 　　 驕傲走在前，羞恥跟後邊。　　1550. Every cook praises his own broth. 　　 廚子都誇自己做的湯。　　 老王賣瓜，自賣自誇。　　1551. Every man thinks his own things best. 　　 人都以為自己的東西最好。　　 敝帚自珍。　　1552. He is in his better blue clothes. 人人都覺得自己比別人強。1553. He wots not whether he bears the earth, or the earth him. 　　 自大的人不知道是地球背著他，還是他背著地球。　　1554. When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. 　　 自大之人聽到別人受讚揚，便覺得自己受了傷害。　　1555. Pride and grace dwell never in one place. 　　 傲慢與溫雅，永難住一處。　　1556. Pride must be pinched. 　　 驕傲必須收斂。　　1557. Pride feels [finds] no colds. 　　 人想圖俏，凍死不叫。　　 佳人不畏寒。　　1558. Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 　　 驕傲可能潛藏在舊斗篷下。　　1559. Pride that apes humility. 　　 驕傲總是假裝謙卑。　　1560. Pride is the mask of one』s faults. 　　 驕傲是掩飾錯誤的假面具。　　1561. He that is full of himself is very [quite] empty. 　　 自滿之人腹內空。　　1562. He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none. 　　 自命萬事通，腹中常空空。　　1563. He that boasts of his knowledge proclaims his ignorance. 　　 自吹有學問，實際是無知。　　1564. The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame. 　　 狂妄吹牛，不久出醜。　　1565. The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. 　　 雞腸小肚，越發自負。　　1566. Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 　　 班門弄斧。　　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. 　　 人人都有糊塗的時候。　　1573. Every man is a fool sometime, and none at all times. 人有糊塗一時，沒有糊塗一世。1574. A fool may give a wise man counsel. 1575. A fool may put somewhat in a wise man』s head. 　　 傻瓜也能給聰明人出點子。　　 愚者千慮，必有一得。　　1576. A fool』s bolt may sometimes hit the mark. 1577. A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose. 　　 傻瓜有時也可一言中的。　　 愚者千慮，必有一得。　　1578. He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist. 再愚蠢的人也不會拿自己的拳頭當楔子用。1579. A fool always comes short of his reckoning. 　　 愚蠢的人總是缺乏心計。　　1580. A wager is a fool』s argument. 　　 傻瓜一爭就打賭。　　1581. A fool』s heart dances on his lips. 　　 愚蠢的人心掛在唇邊。　　1582. A fool always finds a greater fool than himself. 　　 愚蠢的人總以為別人比自己更蠢。　　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. 　　 對愚蠢人的上策是：使他高興而不要激怒他。　　1585. Fool』s haste is no speed. 　　 傻瓜緊張，白忙一場。　　1586. Never challenge a fool to do wrong. 　　 不要慫恿愚人幹壞事。　　1587. Answer a fool according to his folly. 　　 按照愚人的蠢話回答愚人。（免得他自以為自己聰明。）　　1588. A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool. 　　 有的人講話如智者，而行為卻像個愚人。　　1589. Fools never know when they are well. 　　 蠢人總是不知足。　　1590. A fool always rushes to the fore. 　　 愚人總喜強出頭。　　1591. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 　　 傻瓜敢於沖向天使不敢落腳的地方。　　 聰明的人小心謹慎，愚蠢的人膽大妄為。1592. Fools will be meddling. 蠢人愛管閑事。1593. It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. 　　 兩次上鉤的魚才是蠢魚。　　 聰明人不上兩回當。　　1594. 』Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly. 　　 枉自學聰明，卻做愚蠢事。1595. A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no hope for his 　　 stupidity. 　　 刀鈍可在石上磨，人蠢無葯可治療。　　1596. He who is born a fool is never cured. 　　 天生傻瓜，無可救藥。　　1597. Folly is an incurable disease. 　　 愚蠢是一種不治之病。　　1598. Give a fool enough rope [rope enough] and he will hang himself. 　　 你給傻瓜繩子長，他拿繩子去懸樑。　　 任憑傻瓜瞎胡鬧，他拿繩子去上吊。　　1599. Beauty and folly are often companions. 　　 美人常常缺乏心智。　　 美與蠢，結伴行。　　1600. The follies of youth are food for the repentance in old age. 　　 年輕時胡鬧，年老時煩惱。　　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. 　　 老年荒唐無藥可救。33．撒謊?欺騙1605. Lies have short [no] legs. 　　 謊言總是站不住腳的。　　1606. A lie begets a lie till they come to generations. 　　 謊言相生，世代傳承。　　1607. Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome. 　　 雖然謊言巧扮裝，到頭總會被識破。1608. Liars begin by imposing upon others but end deceiving themselves. 　　 撒謊者以騙人開始，以騙己告終。1609. One lie makes [calls for] many. 1610. One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it. 　　 一次撒謊裝得像，就得多次假話幫。　　1611. He never lies when the holly is green. 　　 只要冬青樹綠，他就會撒謊。　　 愛撒謊的人永遠撒謊。　　1612. Liars have need of good memories. 1613. Liars need long memories. 1614. Liars should [ought to] have good memories. 　　 撒謊的人須有好記性。 1615. Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it. 　　 謊言似蕁麻，玩弄會刺手。　　1616. Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. 　　 含糊其詞是謊言的近親。　　1617. Gossiping and lying go together. 　　 流言與謊言常並行。　　1618. A vaunter and a liar are near akin. 　　 自詡和說謊，二者正相仿。　　1619. A boaster and a liar are all one. 吹牛者和撒謊者是一路貨。1620. A boaster and a liar are cousins-german. 　　 吹牛者和撒謊者是表兄弟。　　1621. A false tongue will hardly speak truth. 　　 假舌不會吐真言。　　 狗嘴裡吐不出象牙。　　1622. Lying is the first step to the gallows. 　　 說謊是邁向斷頭台的第一步。　　1623. Lying rides upon debt』s back. 　　 負債之人謊言多。 1624. He that will swear, will lie. 　　 好發誓的人也好撒謊。 1625. A great talker is a great liar. 　　 夸夸其談的人也最會說謊。　　1626. The greatest liars talk most of themselves. 　　 自吹自擂之人常常是最大的說謊者。　　1627. He that will lie will steal. 　　 撒謊之人常盜竊。　　1628. Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief. 　　 說謊是盜竊的開始。　　1629. A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. 　　 撒謊的人即使說了真話也無人相信。　　1630. There is many a fair thing full false. 　　 許多動聽之事充滿了謬誤。　　1631. Interest will not lie. 　　 興趣是不會說謊的。1632. He that trusts in a lie shall perish in truth. 相信謊言的人必將在真實中毀滅。 1633. He cries wine and sells vinegar. 　　 喊的是酒，賣的卻是醋。　　 掛羊頭，賣狗肉。1634. Cheats never prosper. 　　 騙子永遠不發達。　　1635. To deceive oneself is very easy. 　　 欺騙自己非常容易。　　1636. Gain got by a lie will burn one』s fingers. 靠騙人得利將會最終害己。 1637. He that once deceives is ever suspected. 騙人一次，受疑一世。 1638. He who trusteth is not deceived. 不輕信者難被騙。34．花草?樹木1639. One flower makes no garland. 　　一朵花做不成一個花環。　　1640. No rose without a thorn. 1641. Every rose has its thorn. 　　 玫瑰皆有刺。　　 沒有盡善盡美的東西。　　1642. Straws show which way the wind blows. 1643. A straw shows which way the wind blows.　　 草動示風向。　　1644. Weeds want no sowing. 　　 雜草不需種。　　1645. A drowning man will catch at a straw. 　　 溺水者見草也要抓。　　 急何能擇。　　1646. Where there are reeds, there is water. 　　 有蘆葦必有水。1647. Like tree, like fruit. 　　 有什麼樣的樹，就有什麼樣的果。　　1648. He that would eat [have] the fruit must climb the tree. 　　 要吃果子就得上樹。　　1649. You cannot see the wood for trees. 　　 見樹不見林。　　1650. No root, no fruit. 　　 無根則無果。35．飛禽?走獸1651. Old bees yield no honey. 　　 老蜂不產蜜。　　1652. 』Tis the early bird that catches the worm. 　　 早起的鳥兒先得蟲。　　 捷足先登。　　1653. The bird loves her nest. 　　 鳥愛自己的窩。　　1654. Each bird likes to hear himself sing. 　　 鳥都愛聽自己唱歌。　　1655. The bird that can sing and won』t sing must be made to sing. 　　 天生能唱之鳥，不唱也得使其唱。　　1656. A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. 　　 鳥以聲聞，人以言知。　　1657. Birds of a feather flock together. 　　 物以類聚，人以群分。　　1658. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 　　 一鳥在手，勝於兩鳥在林。　　1659. Kill two birds with one stone. 　　 一石雙鳥。　　 一箭雙鵰。　　1660. The fowler』s pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught. 　　 捕鳥人笛聲悠揚，誘得鳥兒自投網。　　1661. The noisy fowler catches no bird. 　　 捕鳥人聲張，鳥兒不落網。　　1662. He that will take the bird must not scare it. 　　 要想捕到鳥，就別驚擾鳥。　　1663. Old birds are not caught with new nests. 　　 新網難捉老鳥。　　1664. Clumsy birds have to start flying early. 　　 笨鳥先飛。　　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，蝸牛跟著爬。　　1667. The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at Midsummer, and then goes away. 　　 布谷鳥，四月來，五月一直在；仲夏唱支歌，隨後便離開。　　1668. If the sky falls, we shall catches larks. 　　 天塌正好捉雲雀。　　 切勿杞人憂天。　　1669. When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace. 　　 梟鳥一唱，夜鶯屏息。　　1670. An owl is the king of the night. 　　 貓頭鷹乃黑夜之王。　　1671. Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. 　　 鷹愛獨飛羊喜群。　　1672. Empty hands no hawk allure. 　　 空手不能誘鷹來。　　1673. Hawks will not pick hawk』s eyes out. 　　 老鷹不啄老鷹眼。　　 同類不相殘。　　1674. A kite will never be a good hawk. 　　 鳶永不會變成隼。　　1675. A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often. 　　 烏鴉即使常洗澡，羽毛也不會變白。　　1676. The crow thinks his own bird fairest. 　　 烏鴉總以為子最美。　　1677. Crows do not pick crow』s eyes. 　　 烏鴉不啄烏鴉的眼睛。　　 同類不相殘。　　1678. Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the ravens be gathered together. 　　 哪裡有死屍，烏鴉便成群。　　1679. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. 雞蛋未孵，別數雞雛。　　 不要過早樂觀。　　1680. Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings. 　　 狐狸雖會跑，小雞有翅膀。　　1681. Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly. 　　 粒粒糧食，母雞飽食。　　1682. Fat hens lay few eggs. 　　 肥胖母雞下蛋稀。　　1683. If the hen does not prate, she will not lay. 　　 不咯咯叫的母雞不下蛋。　　1684. It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in another』s. 　　 你家咯咯雞，別家窩裡蛋，這樣的母雞要不得。　　1685. Young cocks love no coops. 　　 小公雞不戀籠。　　1686. A cock is bold on his dunghill. 　　 糞堆之上公雞稱王。　　1687. A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock. 　　 公雞眼中麥粒勝於一顆鑽石。　　1688. He that will have his farm full, must keep an old cock and a young bull. 　　 要想農莊充裕，老雞小牛少不了。　　1689. Never cackle till your egg is laid. 　　 事未成功莫先誇耀。　　1690. A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter. 　　 鴨子不會老在同一條溝里玩水。　　1691. All your swans are geese. 　　 你的天鵝都成了普通的鵝。　　 所有的希望都落空了。　　1692. All his geese are swans. 自家的鵝都是天鵝。　　 蔽帚自珍。　　1693. The swans sings when death comes. 　　 死期來到，天鵝歌聲美妙。　　1694. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 　　 適用於某種情況者必然適用於類似的情況。　　1695. It is a blind silly goose that comes to the fox』s sermon. 　　 只有盲目的蠢鵝才會去聽狐狸講道。　　1696. Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. 　　 殺鵝取金蛋。　　 只圖眼前需要，斷絕將來財源。1697. A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.　　 豬死皆因體肥。　　1698. Never cast your pearls before swine. 　　 切勿明珠暗投。　　 不要對牛彈琴。　　1699. Pigs may fly, but they are very unlikely birds. 　　 豬兒縱會飛，終究不是鳥。　　1700. You cannot makes a silk purse out of a sow』s ear. 豬耳做不成絲綢包。　　 巧婦難為無米之炊。　　1701. If the beard were all, the goat might preach. 　　 如果鬍鬚能說明問題，山羊也可講道。　　1702. Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful. 　　 羊每叫一聲就少吃一口。　　1703. One sheep follows another. 　　 羊性喜盲從。　　1704. If one sheep leap over the dyke, all the rest will follow. 　　 一羊過溝百羊隨。　　1705. One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock. 　　 一羊生癬，眾羊遭殃。　　1706. The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the wolf. 　　 羊踩起的灰塵擋不住狼。　　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. 　　 烏鴉吃死羊，先要哭一場。　　 貓哭老鼠假慈悲。　　1709. One butcher does not fear many sheep. 　　 屠夫不怕羊多。　　1710. You have no goats, and yet you sell kids. 　　 家中無老羊，輪到賣羊羔。　　1711. As soon goes the young lamb』s skin to market as the old ewe』s. 　　 老羊皮上市，小羊皮也會跟著上市。　　1712. A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. 　　 懶羊總覺羊毛重。　　1713. It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor. 　　 蠢羊才向狼懺悔。　　1714. There is a black sheep in every flock. 　　 害群之馬處處有。　　1715. It is a small flock that has not a black sheep. 　　 人多必有敗類。　　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. 　　 掛耙去耕地，牛方知艱辛。　　1718. Not all butter that the cow yields. 　　 母牛所產未必盡黃油。　　1719. The ox when weariest treads surest. 　　 牛困走得穩。　　1720. The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it. 　　 有時不愛惜，失後徒嘆息。　　1721. You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk. 1722. If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. 　　 不能既要賣奶牛，又想喝牛奶。　　 事難兩全。　　1723. Old oxen have stiff horns. 　　 牛老角硬。　　1724. An ox is taken by the horns, and the man by the tongue. 　　 牛被執角，人被舌毀。　　1725. Many good cows have evil calves. 1726. Many a good cow hath a bad calf. 　　 好牛會生壞牛犢。　　 虎父生犬子。 1727. The black ox has trod on his foot. 　　 大禍臨頭。　　1728. If the ox falls, whet your knife. 　　牛一倒，快磨刀。　　人遭難，眾人踩。　　1729. You may know the horse by his harness. 　　 觀馬可知馬性。　　1730. A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings. 　　 相馬不可憑馬飾。　　1731. A good horse often needs a good spur. 　　 好馬常需好靴刺。　　1732. It is a good horse that never stumbles. 　　 凡馬皆有失蹄時。　　 人無完人，金無足金。　　1733. He is a gentle horse that never cast his rider. 　　 訓良之馬不會甩倒騎手。　　1734. A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats. 　　 不願加鞍的馬，不得吃燕麥。　　1735. Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride. 　　 老柴好燒，老馬好騎。　　1736. A ragged colt may make a good horse. 　　 丑駒可能長成駿馬。　　 後生可畏。　　1737. You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. 　　 你可以把馬牽到水邊，但不能強迫其飲水。　　 不要強人所難。　　1738. Don』t swap horses when crossing a stream. 　　 行至中流不換馬。　　 危難之時不宜作大變動。　　1739. Every horse thinks his sack heaviest. 　　 每一匹馬都認為自己馱的袋子最重。　　1740. The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. 　　 馬劣卻怪馬鞍壞。　　1741. Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse. 　　 瞎馬鼓勇氣，正是危險事。　　1742. A galled horse will not endure the comb. 　　 擦傷的馬不耐梳。　　1743. The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching.　　 好馬需要訓，好子需要教。　　1744. It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse. 　　 要想把馬訓得好，韁繩靴刺少不了。　　1745. A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can. 　　 馬駒猶可練，老馬最難訓。　　1746. A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle. 　　 烈馬要套粗籠頭。　　1747. An ass endures his burden, but not more than his burden. 　　 驢能負重，但也不宜過重。　　1748. Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. 　　 寧為雞頭，不為牛後。　　1749. Wherever an ass falleth, there will be never fall again. 　　 驢子不會在同一地方跌倒兩次。　　1750. The braying of an ass does not reach heaven. 　　 驢子叫聲雖響，但也傳不到天上。　　1751. The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle. 　　 驢子不乖，休怪馱鞍。　　1752. If a donkey brays at you, don』t bray at him. 　　 別和蠢人一般見識。　　1753. He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot. 指望騾子無微暇，只有自己徒步行。 1754. A lion at home, a mouse abroad. 　　 在家是獅子，外出成老鼠。　　1755. The mountains have brought forth a mouse. 　　 大山生小鼠。　　 費力大而收效小。　　1756. A blate cat makes a proud mouse. 　　 貓兒靦腆，耗子翻天。1757. A cat has nine lives. 　　 貓有九條命。　　1758. When the cat』s away, the mice will play. 　　 貓兒不在家，耗子就玩耍。　　 貓兒不在老鼠鬧。　　1759. A gloved cat catches no mice.　　 戴手套的貓兒抓不到老鼠。　　1760. Cats hide their paws. 　　 貓兒不露爪。　　1761. A cat may look at a king. 　　 貓也有權瞧國王。　　 位卑之人也應有些權利。　　1762. Ale will make a cat speak. 喝了淡啤酒，貓也會開口。　　 酒後話語多。　　1763. All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws. 　　 貓愛吃魚卻又怕弄濕爪。　　 想得到好東西，卻又不願冒風險。　　1764. It is said that a cat hath nine lives, yet care would wear them all out. 　　 據說貓有九條命，憂慮過多也傷身。　　1765. The cat and dog may kiss, yet are none the better friends. 　　 貓和狗也許可以親吻，但永遠成不了朋友。　　1766. When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage. 　　 黃鼠狼與貓聯姻，不是好兆頭。　　1767. Love me, love my dog. 　　 愛屋及烏。　　1768. Dog does not eat dog. 　　 狗不吃狗。　　 同類不相殘。　　1769. Every dog is a lion at home. 　　 狗在家中，八面威風。　　1770. Every dog is valiant at his own door. 　　 站在家門口，狗也雄赳赳。　　1771. Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. 　　 寧為犬首，不作獅尾。　　1772. Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. 　　 飢不擇食。　　1773. Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread. 　　 狗把尾巴搖，愛的是麵包。　　1774. Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail. 　　 莫因狗尾搖，每次給麵包。　　1775. Too much pudding will choke a dog. 　　 太多布丁也會噎死狗。　　1776. A good dog deserves a good bone. 　　 好狗應啃好骨頭。　　1777. While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none. 　　 狗啃骨頭無同伴。　　1778. Two dogs strive for a bone, the third runs away with it. 　　 兩狗相爭一骨頭，第三隻狗銜起走。　　1779. One barking dog sets all the streets barking. 　　一犬吠影，百犬吠聲。　　1780. A barking dog is better than a sleeping lion. 　　 吠犬勝於睡獅。　　1781. A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone. 　　 肉骨頭打狗狗不叫。　　1782. Barking dogs seldom bite. 　　 吠犬不咬人。　　1783. Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand. 　　 遠處狗就叫，近身不會咬。　　1784. Beware of a silent dog and still water. 　　 啞狗和靜水，二者都得防。　　1785. In every country dogs bite. 　　 凡狗皆咬人。　　1786. Mad dog bites his master. 　　 瘋狗咬主人。　　1787. Let sleeping dog lie. 　　 勿擾睡狗。　　 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. 　　 老狗難改吠叫聲。　　1791. All are not thieves that dogs bark at. 　　 狗對著吠叫的人，並非都是小偷。　　1792. Help the dog over the stile. 　　 幫助落難者度過難關。　　1793. Every dog has his day. 　　 人人皆有得意時。　　 片瓦也有翻身日。　　1794. A living dog is better than a dead lion. 　　 活狗勝死獅。　　1795. Give a dog a bad name and hang him. 　　 欲加之罪，何患無辭。　　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，何患無辭。　　1797. When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink. 　　 待到狗溺水，眾人給水喝。　　1798. The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping. 　　 兔子睡大覺，烏龜贏賽跑。　　1799. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. 　　 同時追兩兔，一隻也難捕。　　1800. One should not run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. 　　 切莫兩面討好。　　1801. He that will have a hare to breakfast must hunt overnight. 　　 要想吃兔肉，必須早下手。　　1802. First catch your hare then cook him. 　　 要吃兔肉先捕兔。　　1803. The fox may grow grey, but never good. 　　 狐狸會變老，永遠難變好。　　1804. The sleeping fox catches no poultry. 　　 睡著的狐狸捉不到雞。　　1805. It is an evil sign to see a fox lick a lamb. 　　 狐狸舔羊羔，不是好跡象。　　1806. When the fox preacheth, then beware your geese. 　　 每逢狐狸講道，當心鵝子遭殃。　　1807. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose』s trial. 　　 審鵝不應讓狐狸作陪審。　　1808. The old goose plays not with foxes. 　　 老鵝不跟狐狸耍。　　1809. The fox』s wiles will never enter the lion』s head. 　　 狐狸的詭計永遠進不了獅子的頭腦。　　1810. Old foxes want no tutors. 　　 老狐無須老師教。　　1811. An old fox is not easily snared. 　　 老狐不易陷羅網。　　1812. The fox smells his own stink first. 　　 狐狸有惡臭，自己先嗅出。　　1813. You can have no more of the fox than the skin. 　　 狐狸除了皮，別的全無用。　　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，人人認識它。　　1816. The fox that had lost its tail would persuade others out of theirs. 　　 一隻狐狸丟尾巴，就勸別的也丟它。　　1817. The wolf and fox are both privateers. 　　 狐狸與狼，搶劫大王。　　1818. The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature. 　　 狼會掉牙，本性難改。　　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，一點一點進肚腸。　　1821. Give never the wolf the wether. 　　 莫把閹羊送給狼。　　1822. The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. 　　 群狼一死眾羊安。　　1823. While you trust to the dog, the wolf slips into the sheepfold. 　　 當你認為狗可信，羊圈已被狼溜進。　　1824. It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf. 　　 跟狼把和平講，此羊必癲狂。　　1825. Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods. 　　 飢餓引狼出森林。　　1826. A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. 青年在成長，食量大如狼。 1827. A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf. 　　 小偷識小偷，正像狼識狼。　　1828. Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl. 與狼相結交，就會學狼嚎。 1829. Man is to man either a god or a wolf. 　　 人與人交往，不是上帝就是狼。　　1830. When the wolf grows old, the crows ride him. 　　 狼老烏鴉欺。　　1831. The leopard can never change its spots. 　　 花斑豹永遠改變不了身上的斑點。　　 本性難改。　　1832. He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. 　　 騎虎難下。　　1833. The tiger that has once tasted blood is never sated with the taste of it. 　　 一次嘗到血，虎欲永難揭。　　1834. Beard the lion in his den. 　　 老虎頭上捉虱。　　 太歲頭上動土。　　1835. Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp. 　　 殺獅應在幼小時。　　1836. The lion is known by his claws [paws]. 　　 獅以爪出名。　　1837. The lion』s skin is never cheap. 　　 獅皮從不賤。　　1838. It is not good to wake a sleeping lion. 　　 睡獅莫驚。　　1839. The lion is not so fierce as he is painted. 　　 獅子沒有畫上的兇猛。　　1840. An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag. 　　 一隻獅子領一群鹿比一隻鹿領的一隻獅子更難對付。　　1841. Where the deer is slain, some of her blood will lie. 　　 鹿死總有血跡留。　　1842. The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood. 　　 野豬一怒，力大無窮。　　1843. He who shareth honey with the bear hath the least part of it. 與熊分蜜，只能嘗一滴。 1844. Kings and bears often worry keepers. 國王與熊，常使看守憂心忡忡。 1845. Do not sell the bear』s skin before you have caught the bear. 　　 熊未到手休賣皮。 莫高興太早。 1846. An ape』s an ape, a varlet』s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet. 　　 儘管衣綢穿紅，猿猴仍是猿猴，侍從仍是侍從。36．朋友?敵人1847. A friend is a second self. 朋友是第二個自我。1848. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 　　 患難中的朋友才是真正的朋友。　　1849. Nothing is dearer to a man than a friend in need. 　　 患難之交最可貴。　　1850. A true friend is one soul in two bodies. 　　 真正的朋友是兩個軀體一個靈魂。　　 摯友乃兩人同心。　　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鏡子。　　1853. A friend is best found in adversity. 　　 患難之中顯真朋。　　1854. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. 　　 患難考驗朋友。　　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. 　　 患難識得真朋友。　　1859. A man must eat a peck of salt with his friends before he knows him. 　　 與朋友相處日久方知其人。　　 日久見人心。　　1860. Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him. 　　 擇友之前先了解。　　1861. A faithful friend is hard to find. 　　 忠實朋友實難尋。　　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，有帳不可拖。　　1864. Even reckoning makes long friends. 彼此無帳，友情久長。 1865. He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs. 　　 背後稱我好，才算好朋友。　　 1866. A good friend is my nearest relation. 　　 好友即至親。　　1867. A near friend is better than a fardwelling kinsman. 近友勝遠親。1868. A friend in court is better than a penny in purse. 　　 朝中朋友勝於包中錢。　　1869. It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. 　　 無論天堂和地獄，最好都結交幾個朋友。　　1870. It is good to have friends in trouble. 　　 患難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，路程不覺遙遠。　　1873. Have but few friends, though many acquaintances. 結交宜多，朋友宜少。1874. Many friends in general, one in special. 泛交眾多，好友一個。1875. A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. 1876. A friend to all is a friend to none. 　　 與任何人都是朋友，結果跟誰都交不成朋友。　　 友多沒有好朋友。　　1877. Poverty tries friends. 貧窮考驗朋友。1878. Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 1879. Poverty makes strange bedfellows. 貧窮使陌生者成為同床好友。 貧不擇友。 1880. Try your friend ere you trust him. 信任朋友前，應當先考驗。1881. Prove thy friend ere thou have need. 　　 需要朋友幫忙前，要對他們先考驗。　　 1882. In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty. 走運之時朋友多。1883. He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend. 　　 錢袋裝得飽，朋友不會少。　　1884. A table friend is a variable friend. 1885. Table friendship soon changes. 　　 酒桌上的朋友多變化。　　 酒肉朋友靠不住。　　1886. No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot. 　　 酒肉朋友不長久。　　 1887. Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. 　　 富裕招致朋友，貧困考驗朋友。　　 1888. Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight. 朋友如琴弦，不能上太緊。1889. All are not friends that speak us fair. 　　 講自己好話的並不都是朋友。　　 1890. I will be thy friend, but not thy vices』 friend. 　　 我願意做你的朋友，但不做你惡習的朋友。　　 1891. A friend without faults will never be found. 　　 沒有缺點的朋友不存在。　　 1892. We shall never have fiends if we expect to find them without fault. 　　 指望朋友無缺點，永遠別想交朋友。　　 1893. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. 　　 失友快，交友慢。　　 1894. Between friends all is common. 朋友之間不分彼此。1895. Old friends and old wine are best. 　　 陳酒味醇，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. 　　 沒有朋友只能算半個人。　　1898. Better without gold than without friend. 　　 寧可沒有金銀，不可缺少朋友。　　1899. Without a friend, the world is wilderness. 　　 沒有朋友，世界就成了一片荒野。　　1900. A life without a friend is like a life without a sun. 　　 人生沒有朋友。猶如生活沒有陽光。　　1901. Life without friend is death. 　　 生活中沒有朋友就等於死亡。　　 1902. Friendless is the dead. 　　 死者沒有朋友。　　 1903. Hunger knows no friend. 　　 飢餓不識友。　　 1904. Misery makes strange bedfellows. 1905. Adversity makes strange bedfellows. 1906. Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 逆境使陌生人成為同床好友。　　 難中不擇友。　　 同病相憐。　　 客舍休悲柳色新，何處相逢非故人。　　1907. Better be alone than in bad company. 1908. It is better to be alone than in ill company. 　　 交損友不如不交友。　　 1909. God defend [deliver] me from my friends; from my enemies I can [will] defend myself. 　　 仇人易防，朋友難纏。　　 1910. False friends are worse than open enemies. 　　 假朋友比真敵人更壞。　　1911. A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy. 1912. False friends are worse than bitter enemies. 　　 假朋友比死對頭還壞。　　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. 　　 公開的敵人勝過虛假的朋友。　　 1916. He that lies down [sleeps] with dogs must rise up with fleas. 　　 與惡人交友會變惡。　　 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. 　　 觀其友，知其人。　　 什麼樣的人交什麼樣的朋友。　　1920. Old acquaintance will soon be remembered. 　　 故友一見便相親。　　1921. Friends must part. 1922. The best of friends must part. 　　 好友終有分手時。　　1923. Short acquaintance brings repentance. 　　 淺交致後悔。　　1924. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. 　　 即使你當時並不喜歡，也應記下愛你之人的忠告。　　 1925. Merry meet, merry part. 　　 好聚好散。　　 1926. Friends agree best at a distance. 　　 朋友有間隔，意見才能合。　　 朋友間應保持一定距離。　　1927. Friends are thieves of time. 　　 朋友是時間的盜賊。　　 交友花費時間。　　1928. True friendship lasts forever. 真正的友誼與世長存。1929. Without confidence there is no friendship. 沒有信任，就沒有友誼。1930. Friendship cannot stand always on one side. 1931. Friendship should not be all on one side. 　　 友誼不能總在一方。　　1932. Community of purpose makes friendship. 目標一致，產生友誼。1933. Fire is the test of gold, adversity of friendship. 烈火試真金，逆境測友情。1934. Friendship is like wine ——the older the better. 友誼如美酒，越陳越醇厚。1935. True friendship is like sound health, the value of which is seldom known until it be lost. 真正友誼似健康，失去方知其珍貴。 1936. Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy. 新友不可信，宿敵需提防。1937. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. 　　 朋友向你皺眉勝過敵人向你微笑。　　1938. A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend. 勇敢的敵人勝過懦怯的朋友。1939. An enemy』s mouth seldom speaks well. 　　 敵人口中無好言。　　1940. Believe no tales from the enemy. 　　 敵人所言不可信。　　1941. Gifts from the enemies are dangerous. 　　 敵人的禮物要不得。　　1942. Do not despise your enemy. 　　 不可輕敵。　　1943. He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil. 跟壞人打交道，要特別小心。1944. If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. 　　 即使我們決心寬恕敵人，也決不能相信敵人。　　1945. Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion. 　　 即使敵人小如鼠，也要防其大如獅。　　1946. He that dallies with enemy gives him leave to kill him. 把敵人當兒戲，無異於准許敵人殺害自己。1947. Who shows mercy to an enemy denies it to himself. 憐惜敵人就是不憐惜自己。1948. An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgiveness must not feel thy sword. 　　 對俯伏在你腳下乞憐的敵人，絕不可讓他觸及你的劍。　　1949. Mickle power makes many enemies. 　　 權高樹敵多。　　1950. One enemy is too much. 一個敵人已嫌多。1951. One enemy [fee] is too many; and a hundred friends too few. 敵人一個已嫌多，朋友一百也嫌少。1952. Nothing worse than a familiar enemy. 知我之敵最危險。1953. One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. 　　 一個敵人為害，勝過十個朋友行好。　　1954. Make your enemy your friend. 　　 要化敵為友。　　1955. If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again. 　　 你若想與人結怨，只須先借錢給他，然後再向他催討。　　1956. In an enemy spots are soon seen. 敵人身上求疵易。1957. All are brave when the enemy flies. 　　 敵人遁逃時，人人皆勇士。37．其他諺語1958. A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm. 　　 借來的大氅不暖身。　　1959. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 　　 眼不見，心更想。　　1960. A candle lights others and consumes itself. 　　 蠟燭照亮了別人，毀滅了自己。　　1961. A chain is no stronger than its weakest lining. 一環薄弱，全鏈不強。1962. A clean hand wants no washing. 　　 清白的人無需為自己洗刷。　　1963. A constant guest is never welcome. 　　 常來之客不會受歡迎。　　1964. A creaking door [gate] hangs long on its hinges. 病夫多長命。1965. A danger foreseen is half avoided. 　　 預見其患則患不足懼。　　1966. After meat, mustard. 　　 飯後上芥末。　　 雨後送傘。　　1967. A good example is the best sermon. 　　 良好的範例是最好的訓誡。　　1968. All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives? 姑娘個個好，潑婦何處來？1969. All is fish that comes to his net. 到了網中都是魚。 只要到手全都要。1970. All is well that ends well. 結果好，就一切都好。1971. A man is as old as he feels. 　　 老不老，自己曉。　　 你覺得自己有多老就有多老。　　1972. A man may love his house well without riding on the ridge. 　　 一個人盡可以欣賞自己的房子，而不必騎在屋頂上誇耀。　　 有寶何必人前誇。　　1973. A new broom sweeps clean. 新官上任三把火。　　1974. Avarice blinds our eyes. 貪婪障人目。　　1975. A watched kettle [pot] never boils. 　　 看著的水壺永不開。　　1976. A watched pot [pan] is long in boiling. 心急水不開。 盼得越切，來得越晚。　　1977. A wonder lasts but nine days. 新鮮事兒不久長。　　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. 　　 寧作自由民之首，不為貴族之尾。　　1981. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. 寧在地獄作閻王，不在天堂作奴僕。1982. Beware beginnings. 　　 慎始為上。　　1983. Bind the sack before it is full. 　　 麻袋裝得滿扎不住口。　　 凡事適可而止。　　1984. By the street of 「Bye-and-bye」 one arrives at the house of 「Never」. 　　 拖延因循，一事無成。1985. Caesar』s wife must be above suspicion. 　　 身為凱撒妻，必須無可疑。　　1986. Care killed the cat. 久慮傷身。1987. Cheek brings success. 　　 厚著臉皮，無往不利。　　1988. Companions are odious. 　　 人比人，氣死人。　　1989. Congenial minds are disposed to associate. 物以類聚，人以群分。1990. Cowards die often [many times] before their deaths. 　　 膽小鬼常自己嚇死自己。　　1991. Creditors have better memories than debtors. 　　 債主的記性比借債人好。　　1992. Cry up wine and sell vinegar. 掛羊頭，賣狗肉。1993. Danger is next neighbour to security. 　　 危險是安全的緊鄰。　　1994. Dangers foreseen are the sooner prevented. 　　 危險若被預見，則可及早提防。　　1995. Despair gives courage to a coward. 　　 人急造反，狗急跳牆。　　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). 未出險境，先莫高興。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. 切勿良莠不分一齊扔。2000. Every man has his humour. 　　 各人有各人的脾氣。　　2001. Every mechanism has its reverse. 　　 每一枚勳章[每樣事物]都有正反兩面。　　2002. Every miller draws water to his own mill. 　　 人人為己。　　2003. Example is better than precept. 　　 範例勝於教訓。　　2004. Extremes meet. 　　 兩極相通。　　 物極必反。2005. Familiarity breeds contempt. 　　 親昵引起歧視。　　 近之則不遜。　　2006. Far from eye far from heart. 眼不見，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. 　　 魚腐頭先臭。　　 上樑不正下樑歪。　　2010. Forbidden fruit is sweet. 　　 禁果味甜。2011. Give him an inch and he』ll take a yard. 得寸進尺。2012. God helps those who help themselves. 　　 天助自助者。　　2013. God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. 肉是上帝賜的，廚子是魔鬼派的。2014. Golden words offend the ears. 忠言逆耳。2015. Good counsel never comes amiss. 　　 忠言有利無害。　　2016. Good wine needs no bush. 酒好客自來。2017. Good words are worth much and cost little. 　　 好話不要本錢，但價值很大。　　2018. Great designs require great consideration. 　　 大計劃要慎重考慮。　　2019. Harm set, harm get. 害人反害己。2020. Haste makes waste. 　　 欲速則不達。　　2021. Hasty climbers have sudden falls. 　　 爬得快，跌得快。　　2022. Hear all parties. 　　 兼聽則明。　　2023. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 沒有受過傷的人才會嘲笑別人的傷疤。2024. He laughs best who laughs last. 　　 誰笑在最後，誰笑得最好。 不要高興得過早。2025. Hell is paved with good intentions. 　　 通向地獄的道路是由良好的願望鋪成的。　　 良好的願望不一定有好的結果。　　2026. He measures another』s corn by his own bushel. 　　 用自己的標準衡量別人。　　 以己之心度他人之腹。　　2027. He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody. 　　 不能自愛，焉能愛人。　　2028. He that mischief hatches, mischief catches. 　　 害人者終將害己。　　2029. He that sups with the devil must have a long spoon. 　　 和壞人打交道必須提高警惕。　　2030. He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight. 　　 要笑別人背駝，自己就得挺起胸膛走路。　　2031. He who laughs best laughs last. 　　 笑在最後，笑得最好。　　 別高興得太早。　　2032. He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet. 　　 要抓魚就不要怕沾水。　　2033. He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. 　　 千里之行，始於足下。　　2034. History repeats itself. 　　 歷史自身常重演。　　2035. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. 　　 抱最好的希望，準備應付最壞的情況。　　2036. Hunger breaks stone walls. 　　 飢餓能使人衝破石牆。　　 飢餓使造反。2037. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. 　　 大山不向穆罕默德移來，穆罕默德只好向大山走去。　　 他若不遷就你，你只有遷就他。　　2038. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. 　　 願望若是馬，乞丐也可乘。　　 願望難成事實。　　2039. If you command wisely, you』ll be obeyed cheerfully. 　　 指揮有方，人人樂從。　　2040. Ill air slays sooner than the sword. 污濁的空氣殺人比刀快。2041. Ill news never comes too late. 壞消息總是來得快。2042. In the kingdom of blind men, the one-eyed is king. 生在盲人國，獨眼也稱王。2043. It is better to be a martyr than a confessor. 　　 與其作懺悔者，不如作殉道者。　　2044. It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him. 　　 召鬼容易驅鬼難。　　2045. It』s easy to swim if another holds up your head. 　　 有人托著頭容易學游泳。　　 有人扶持易成功。　　2046. It』s no good [use] crying over spilt milk. 　　 牛奶撒地，哭也無用。 事已如此，後悔也無用。2047. It never rains but it pours. 不雨則已，一雨傾盆。2048. Jack is as good as his master. 　　 夥計不比老闆差。　　2049. Jack of all trades and master of none. 　　 門門通，都不精。　　 萬事皆通，事事不精。2050. Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing. 　　 親人幫親人，無親來幫愁煞人。2051. Life begins at forty. 　　 人生始於四十。　　2052. Like attracts [draws to] like. 　　 物以類聚。　　2053. Like author, like book. 　　 文如其人。　　2054. Like begets like. 　　 龍生龍，鳳生鳳。　　 有其因必有其果。　　2055. Like cures like. 　　 同物相醫。　　 以毒攻毒。　　2056. Like knows like. 　　 英雄識英雄。　　2057. Like likes like. 　　 物以類聚。　　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. 　　 久別易忘。　　2061. Long tarrying takes all thanks away. 耽擱太久，會把人家的謝意全攆走。2062. Lookers-on see most of the game. 旁觀者清。2063. Man is a god or a devil to his neighbour. 　　 一個人對其鄰居來說，不是上帝，就是魔鬼。　　2064. Man proposes, God disposes. 　　 謀事在人，成事在天。　　2065. Many men have many minds. 　　 人多意見多。　　 人多心不齊。　　2066. Many wells, many buckets. 　　 井多桶也多。　　2067. Measure for measure. 　　 以冤報冤。　　 以牙還牙。　　2068. Measure thrice before you cut once. 　　 三思而後行。　　2069. Misery loves company. 　　 同病相憐。　　2070. Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs. 　　 莫笑皮匠拇指黑。　　2071. More haste, less speed. 　　 欲速則不達。　　2072. Music is the eye of the ear. 音樂是耳朵的眼睛。2073. Necessity is the mother of invention. 需要是發明之母。2074. Neither fish nor flesh. 2075. Neither fish nor good red herring. 　　 非驢非馬。　　 不倫不類。　　2076. Never offer to teach fish to swim. 　　 不要教魚游泳。　　 別班門弄斧。　　2077. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. 　　 麻煩沒有來找你，別去自找麻煩。　　2078. No man can do two things at once. 　　 一人不能同時做兩件事。　　 心無二用。　　2079. No man ever became thoroughly bad all at once. 從來沒有人突然變得很壞。2080. No man is content. 　　 世上無人知足。　　2081. None so deaf as those who won』t hear. 　　 不肯傾聽別人意見的人是最聾的人。　　2082. No news is good news. 沒有消息就是好消息。2083. Nothing is ever done in a hurry. 　　 匆匆忙忙辦不成任何事。　　2084. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. 　　 有志者，事竟成。　　2085. Nothing is stolen without hands. 無賊不失竊。2086. Older and wiser. 　　 越老越聰明。　　2087. Old vessels must leak. 船舊必漏。2088. Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs. 　　 雞蛋不打破，蛋卷做不成。2089. One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. 　　 一滴毒藥足以毒壞整桶酒。2090. One hand washes another [the other]. 有來有往。互相利用。2091. One lining broken, the whole chain is broken. 一環脫，全鏈斷。2092. One mail drives out another. 一釘入，一釘出。新事物代替舊事物。2093. One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the hedge. 只許州官放火，不許百姓點燈。2094. Oppression maketh a wise man mad. 　　 人處壓迫下，聰明也會瘋。　　2095. Out of sight, out of mind. 　　 眼不見，心不想。2096. Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 　　 一朝得了利，痛苦便忘記。　　2097. Pitchers have ears. 隔牆有耳。2098. Practice makes perfect. 　　 熟能生巧。　　 2099. Praise is not pudding. 恭維不是布丁。 恭維不是實惠。2100. Promises are like piecrust, made to be broken. 諾言好似餡餅皮，做來便是為咬碎。2101. Promise is debt. 　　 許願如欠債，欠了便要還。 許願要還，欠債要清。2102. Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it. 公款如聖水，人人都想嘗一嘴。2103. Rain before seven; fine before eleven. 　　 早雨不過午。　　2104. Remember thou are but a man. 　　 記住你只不過是個「人」而已。　　2105. Revolutions are not made with rosewater. 　　 革命不是玫瑰香水做成的。　　 革命不能採取溫和的方法。　　2106. Roll my log and I』ll roll yours. 　　 相互幫忙。　　 相互吹噓。2107. Satan reproves sin. 　　 魔鬼責人之罪。 　　2108. Seeing is believing. 　　 百聞不如一見。　　 2109. Self do, self have. 　　 自作自受。　　2110. Sell the bear』s skin before one has caught the bear. 　　 熊未到手先賣皮。　　 過早樂觀。　　2111. Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. 　　 技能和信心是無敵的軍隊。　　2112. Slow and steady wins the race. 　　 穩紮穩打，無往不勝。　　2113. Soft fire makes sweet malt. 　　 文火熬出好麥芽糖。　　 慢工出細活。　　2114. Sorrow comes unsent for. 　　 悲哀來時不須邀。　　2115. Speak [Talk] of the devil and he will appear. 　　 說到誰，誰就到。　　 說到曹操，曹操就到。　　2116. Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators. 　　 旁觀無觀眾，運動最輕鬆。2117. Talk of the evil, and he is sure to appear. 說到某人，某人就到。　　 說起曹操，曹操就到。　　2118. The best fish smell when they are three days old. 　　 最好的魚三天也會臭。　　 久留招人嫌。　　2119. The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good. 　　 要求過高，反難成功。　　2120. The end crowns all. 　　 結局好壞決定一切。　　2121. The end justifies [sanctifies] the means. 　　 只要目的正當，可以不擇手段。　　2122. The outsider sees the best of the game. 　　 旁觀者清。　　2123. There is no accounting for tastes. 　　 人各有所愛。　　2124. There is no rule without an exception. 　　 有規則必有例外。　　2125. There is small choice in rotten apples. 　　 一筐爛蘋果，沒啥好揀。　　2126. The rotten apple injures its neighbours. 　　 一隻爛，爛一筐。　　2127. The tongue ever turns to the aching teeth. 　　 舌頭總是碰著疼牙。　　2128. The wish is father to the thought. 　　 願望為思想之父。　　 希望什麼，就對什麼產生信念。　　2129. They that reckon without their host are to reckon twice. 　　 店主不在便結帳，還得結第二次帳。　　2130. Things done cannot be undone. 　　 事已定局，不能挽回。　　 覆水難收。　　2131. Things unreasonable are never durable. 不合理的事不會長久。2132. Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform. 　　 輕易許諾的人，很少踐諾。　　 輕諾寡信。　　2133. To know everything is to know nothing. 樣樣皆通，樣樣稀鬆。2134. Too many cooks spoil the broth. 廚子成群，煮壞肉羹。2135. Too much liberty spoils all. 　　 自由過了頭，一切亂了套。　　2136. Too much spoils, too little is nothing. 　　 過多會壞事，過少不濟事。　　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. 真心的讚揚，根深傳遠。2140. Venture a small fish to catch a great one. 　　 欲釣大魚，先舍小魚。　　2141. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. 　　 激動時的誓約，平靜時便忘卻。2142. Walls have ears. 　　 隔牆有耳。　　2143. Well begun is half done. 　　 良好的開端就等於成功的一半。　　2144. Well fed, well bred. 　　 吃得好，懂禮貌。　　 衣食足而後知禮。　　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. 　　 井干方知水可貴。　　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. 　　 水淺無船行。　　2149. Whom the gods love die young. 　　 好人不長壽。　　2150. You may [could] go farther and fare worse. 　　 越走得遠可能越倒霉。　　 適可而止。索 引（註：括弧中的數字為該條諺語在文中的編碼）　　　　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）　　
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