- A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
不善始者不善终。 - A bad thing never dies.
遗臭万年。 - A bad workman always blames his tools.
不会撑船怪河弯。 - A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.
一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。 - A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.
吹牛与说谎本是同宗。 - A bully is always a coward.
色厉内荏。 - A burden of one's choice is not felt.
爱挑的担子不嫌重。 - A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。 - A cat has 9 lives.
猫有九条命。 - A cat may look at a king.
人人平等。 - A close mouth catches no flies.
病从口入。 - A constant guest is never welcome.
常客令人厌。 - Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。 - Adversity leads to prosperity.
穷则思变。 - Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
逆境出人才。 - A fair death honors the whole life.
死得其所，流芳百世。 - A faithful friend is hard to find.
知音难觅。 - A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑，长一智。 - A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性难移。 - A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。 - A friend is easier lost than found.
得朋友难，失朋友易。 - A friend is never known till a man has need.
需要之时方知友。 - A friend without faults will never be found.
没有十全十美的朋友。 - "After you" is good manners.
“您先请”是礼貌。 - A good beginning is half done.
良好的开端是成功的一半。 - A good beginning makes a good ending.
善始者善终。 - A good book is a good friend.
好书如挚友。 - A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好书，相伴一生。 - A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。 - A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜过美貌。 - A good husband makes a good wife.
夫善则妻贤。 - A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口。 - A good wife health is a man's best wealth.
妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。 - A great talker is a great liar.
说大话者多谎言。 - A hedge between keeps friendship green.
君子之交淡如水。 - A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.
戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。 - A leopard cannot change its spots.
积习难改。 - A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。 - A light heart lives long.
静以修身。 - A little body often harbors a great soul.
浓缩的都是精品。 - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
一知半解，自欺欺人。 - A little pot is soon hot.
狗肚子盛不得四两油。 - All are brave when the enemy flies.
敌人逃窜时，人人都成了勇士。 - All good things come to an end.
天下没有不散的筵席。 - All rivers run into sea.
海纳百川。 - All roads lead to Rome.
条条大路通罗马。 - All that ends well is well.
结果好，就一切都好。 - All that glitters is not gold.
闪光的不一定都是金子。 - All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事总是由难而易。 - All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。 - A man becomes learned by asking questions.
不耻下问才能有学问。 - A man can do no more than he can.
凡事都应量力而行。 - A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.
一心不能二用。 - A man is known by his friends.
什么人交什么朋友。 - A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
光说空话不做事，犹如花园光长刺。 - A man without money is no man at all.
一分钱难倒英雄汉。 - A merry heart goes all the way.
心旷神怡，事事顺利。 - A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差之千里。 - A mother's love never changes.
母爱永恒。 - An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一天一苹果，不用请医生。 - A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。 - An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
以眼还眼，以牙还牙。 - An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
一日之计在于晨。 - An old dog cannot learn new tricks.
老狗学不出新把戏。 - An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.
聪明才智，不如运气。 - An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
预防为主，治疗为辅。 - A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。 - As a man sows, so he shall reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。 - A single flower does not make a spring.
一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。 - A snow year, a rich year.
瑞雪兆丰年。 - A sound mind in a sound body.
健全的精神寓于健康的身体。 - A still tongue makes a wise head.
寡言者智。 - A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不补，大洞吃苦。 - A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
身正不怕影子斜。 - A wise head makes a close mouth.
真人不露相，露相非真人。 - A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷马难追。 - A year's plan starts with spring.
一年之计在于春。 - A young idler, an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。 - Bad news has wings.
好事不出门，坏事传千里。 - Barking dogs seldom bite.
吠犬不咬人。 - Beauty lies in the love's eyes.
情人眼里出西施。 - Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。 - Better late than never.
不怕慢，单怕站。 - Better to ask the way than go astray.
问路总比迷路好。 - Between friends all is common.
朋友之间不分彼此。 - Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。 - Blood is thicker than water.
血浓于水。 - Blood will have blood.
血债血偿。 - Books and friends should be few but good.
读书如交友，应求少而精。 - Business is business.
公事公办。 - Business is the salt of life.
事业是人生的第一需要。 - By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。 - Cannot see the wood for the trees.
一叶障目，不见泰山。 - Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。 - Caution is the parent of safety.
小心驶得万年船。 - Cheats never prosper.
骗人发不了财。 - Children are what the mothers are.
耳濡目染，身教言传。 - Choose an author as you choose a friend.
择书如择友。 - Come what may, heaven won't fall.
做你的吧，天塌不下来。 - Complacency is the enemy of study.
学习的敌人是自己的满足。 - Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是走向成功的第一步。 - Constant dripping wears away a stone.
水滴石穿，绳锯木断。 - Content is better than riches.
知足者常乐。 - Count one's chickens before they are hatched.
蛋未孵先数雏。 - Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
来而不往非礼也。 - Creep before you walk.
循序渐进。 - Cry for the moon.
海底捞月。 - Custom is a second nature.
习惯是后天养成的。 - Custom makes all things easy.
有个好习惯，事事皆不难。 - Diamond cuts diamond.
强中自有强中手。 - Do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗。 - Do as you would be done by.
己所不欲，勿施于人。 - Doing is better than saying.
与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。 - Do it now.
机不可失，时不再来。 - Do nothing by halves.
凡事不可半途而废。 - Don't claim to know what you don't know.
不要不懂装懂。 - Don't have too many irons in the fire.
不要揽事过多。 - Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
不要小题大做。 - Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
今日事，今日毕。 - Don't put the cart before the horse.
不要本末倒置。 - Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
不要自找麻烦。 - Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班门弄斧。 - Do well and have well.
善有善报。 - Each bird love to hear himself sing.
孤芳自赏。 - Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身体好。 - Easier said than done.
说得容易，做得难。 - Easy come, easy go.
来也匆匆，去也匆匆。 - Eat to live, but not live to eat.
人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。 - Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
实磨无声空磨响，满瓶不动半瓶摇。 - Envy has no holidays.
忌妒之人无宁日。 - Even Homer sometimes nods.
智者千虑，必有一失。 - Even reckoning makes long friends.
亲兄弟，明算账。 - Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。 - Everybody's business is nobody's business.
人人负责，等于没人负责。 - Every day is not Sunday.
好景不常在。 - Every dog has his day.
谁都有得意的时候。 - Every door may be shut, but death's door.
人生在世，唯死难逃。 - Every heart has its own sorrow.
各人有各人的苦恼。 - Every little helps a mickle.
聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。 - Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
人不为己，天诛地灭。 - Every man has his faults.
金无足赤，人无完人。 - Every man has his hobbyhorse.
萝卜青菜，各有所爱。 - Every man has his weak side.
人人都有弱点。 - Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
自己的命运自己掌握。 - Every minute counts.
分秒必争。 - Every mother's child is handsome.
孩子是自己的好。 - Every potter praises hit pot.
王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。 - Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。 - Example is better then percept.
说一遍，不如做一遍。 - Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。 - Experience must be bought.
吃一堑，长一智。 - Fact speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。 - Failure is the mother of success.
失败是成功之母。 - False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。 - Far from eye, far from heart.
眼不见，心不烦。 - Far water does not put out near fire.
远水救不了近火。 - Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。 - Fear always springs from ignorance.
恐惧源于无知。 - Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
隔墙有耳。 - Fire and water have no mercy.
水火无情。 - Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
火是一把双刃剑。 - First come, first served.
先来后到。 - First impressions are half the battle.
初次见面，印象最深。 - First think and then speak.
先想后说。 - Fools grow without watering.
朽木不可雕。 - Fool's haste is no speed.
欲速则不达。 - Fools has fortune.
呆人有呆福。 - Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
愚者不学无术，智者不耻下问。 - Forbidden fruit is sweet.
禁果格外香。 - Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
机遇偏爱善断之人。 - Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
风水轮流转。 - Four eyes see more than two.
集思广益。 - Friends agree best at distance.
朋友之间也会保持距离。 - Friends are thieves of time.
朋友是时间的窃贼。 - Friends must part.
再好的朋友也有分手的时候。 - Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
天才不过是勤奋而已。 - Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
众口铄金，积毁销骨。 - God helps those who help themselves.
自助者天助。 - Gold will not buy anything.
黄金并非万能。 - Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
以德报德是常理，以德报怨大丈夫。 - Good health is over wealth.
健康是最大的财富。 - Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.
良药苦口利于病。 - Good watch prevents misfortune.
谨慎消灾。 - Great barkers are no biters.
好狗不挡道。 - Great hopes make great man.
伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。 - Great minds think alike.
英雄所见略同。 - Great men have great faults.
英雄犯大错误。 - Great men's sons seldom do well.
富不过三代。 - Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
大树底下好乘凉。 - Great wits have short memories.
贵人多忘事。 - Greedy folks have long arms.
心贪手长。 - Guilty consciences make men cowards.
做贼心虚。 - Habit cures habit.
心病还需心药医。 - Handsome is he who does handsomely.
行为漂亮才算美。 - Happiness takes no account of time.
欢乐不觉时光过。 - Happy is he who owes nothing.
要想活得痛快，身上不能背债。 - Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
吸取他人教训，自己才会走运。 - Harm set, harm get.
害人害己。 - Hasty love, soon cold.
一见钟情难维久。 - Health is better than wealth.
健康胜过财富。 - Health is happiness.
健康就是幸福。 - Hear all parties.
兼听则明。 - Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
自己不动，叫天何用。 - He is a fool that forgets himself.
愚者忘乎所以。 - He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
背后说好话，才是真朋友。 - He is a wise man who speaks little.
聪明不是挂在嘴上。 - He is lifeless that is faultless.
只有死人才不犯错误。 - He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
正人先正己。 - He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
自嘲者不会让人见笑。 - He is wise that is honest.
诚实者最明智。 - He knows most who speaks least.
大智若愚。 - He laughs best who laughs last.
谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。 - He sets the fox to keep the geese.
引狼入室。 - He that climbs high falls heavily.
爬得越高，摔得越重。 - He that will not work shall not eat.
不劳动者不得食。 - He who does not advance loses ground.
逆水行舟，不进则退。 - He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
经常诉苦，没人同情。 - He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
想不犯错误，就一事无成。 - He who risks nothing gains nothing.
收获与风险并存。 - History repeats itself.
历史往往重演。 - Honesty is the best policy.
做人诚信为本。 - Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。 - I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
朋友不能阿谀奉承。 - If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
上当一回头，再多就可耻。 - If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑。 - If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.
耳朵发烧，有人念叨。 - If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
脚踏两条船，必定落空。 - If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
杀鸡取卵。 - If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。 - If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
要想求知，就得吃苦。 - Industry is the parent of success.
勤奋是成功之母。 - It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。 - It is easier to get money than to keep it.
挣钱容易攒钱难。 - It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后诸葛亮好当。 - It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
创业容易守业难。 - It is hard to please all.
众口难调。 - It is never too old to learn.
活到老，学到老。 - It is no use crying over spilt milk.
覆水难收。 - It is the first step that costs troublesome.
万事开头难。 - It is the unforeseen that always happens.
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。 - It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
坐失良机，后悔已迟。 - It never rains but it pours.
不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。 - It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
十年树木，百年树人。 - Jack of all trades and master of none.
门门精通，样样稀松。 - Judge not from appearances.
人不可貌相，海不可斗量。 - Justice has long arms.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。 - Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.
近朱者赤，近墨者黑。 - Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭双雕。 - Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.
君王发狂，百姓遭殃。 - Kings have long arms.
普天之下，莫非王土。 - Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。 - Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。 - Learn and live.
活着，为了学习。 - Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
好人越学越好，坏人越学越坏。 - Learn not and know not.
不学无术。 - Learn to walk before you run.
先学走，再学跑。 - Let bygones be bygones.
过去的就让它过去吧。 - Let sleeping dogs lie.
别惹麻烦。 - Let the cat out of the bag.
泄漏天机。 - Lies can never changes fact.
谎言终究是谎言。 - Lies have short legs.
谎言站不长。 - Life is but a span.
人生苦短。 - Life is half spent before we know what it is.
人过半生，方知天命。 - Life is not all roses.
人生并不是康庄大道。 - Life without a friend is death.
没有朋友，虽生犹死。 - Like a rat in a hole.
瓮中之鳖。 - Like author, like book.
文如其人。 - Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。 - Like for like.
一报还一报。 - Like knows like.
惺惺相惜。 - Like mother, like daughter.
有其母必有其女。 - Like teacher, like pupil.
什么样的老师教什么样的学生。 - Like tree, like fruit.
羊毛出在羊身上。 - Little things amuse little minds.
小人无大志。 - Look before you leap.
摸清情况再行动。 - Lookers-on see more than players.
当局者迷，旁观者清。 - Losers are always in the wrong.
胜者为王，败者为寇。 - Lost time is never found again.
岁月既往，一去不回。 - Love at first sight.
一见钟情。 - Love cannot be compelled.
爱情不能强求。 - Love is blind.
爱情是盲目的。 - Love is full of trouble.
爱情充满烦恼。 - Love is never without jealousy.
没有妒忌就没有爱情。 - Love me, love my dog.
爱屋及乌。 - Make hay while the sun shines.
良机勿失。 - Make your enemy your friend.
化敌为友。 - Man is the soul of the universe.
人是万物之灵。 - Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。 - Many hands make light work.
众人拾柴火焰高。 - Many heads are better than one.
三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮。 - Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
有心栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫。 - Measure for measure.
针锋相对。 - Misfortunes never come alone.
祸不单行。 - Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
患难见真情。 - Money isn't everything.
钱不是万能的。 - Murder will out.
纸包不住火。 - My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.
儿子婚前是儿子，女儿终生是女儿。 - Nature is the true law.
天行有常，不为尧存，不为桀亡。 - Necessity is the mother of invention.
需要是发明的动力。 - Never fish in trouble water.
不要混水摸鱼。 - Never judge from appearances.
不可以貌取人。 - Never say die.
永不言败。 - Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.
亡羊补牢，为时未晚。 - New wine in old bottles.
旧瓶装新酒。 - No cross, no crown.
不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。 - No garden without its weeds.
没有不长草的园子。 - No living man all things can.
世上没有万事通。 - No man can do two things at once.
一心不可二用。 - No man is born wise or learned.
没有生而知之者。 - No man is content.
人心不足蛇吞象。 - No man is wise at all times.
聪明一世，糊涂一时。 - None are so blind as those who won't see.
视而不见。 - None are so deaf as those who won't hear.
充耳不闻。 - No news is good news.
没有消息就是好消息。 - No one can call back yesterday.
昨日不会重现。 - No pains, no gains.
没有付出就没有收获。 - No pleasure without pain.
没有苦就没有乐。 - No rose without a thorn.
没有不带刺的玫瑰。 - No sweet without sweat.
先苦后甜。 - No smoke without fire.
无风不起浪。 - Nothing brave, nothing have.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。 - Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
眼泪干得最快。 - Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。 - Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上无难事，只要肯登攀。 - Nothing seek, nothing find.
没有追求就没有收获。 - Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.
外出旅行，语言最要紧。 - Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.
世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。 - Not to advance is to go back.
不进则退。 - Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
不懂世故，幼稚可笑。 - No way is impossible to courage.
勇者无惧。 - Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
军人以服从命令为天职。 - Observation is the best teacher.
观察是最好的老师。 - Offense is the best defense.
进攻是最好的防御。 - Old friends and old wines are best.
陈酒味醇，老友情深。 - Old sin makes new shame.
一失足成千古恨。 - Once a man and twice a child.
一次老，两次小。 - Once a thief, always a thief.
偷盗一次，做贼一世。 - Once bitten, twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。 - One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.
一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。 - One cannot put back the clock.
时钟不能倒转。 - One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.
百闻不如一见。 - One false move may lose the game.
一着不慎，满盘皆输。 - One good turn deserves another.
行善积德。 - One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
争分夺秒效率高。 - One man's fault is other man's lesson.
前车之鉴。 - One never loses anything by politeness.
讲礼貌不吃亏。 - One swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。 - One's words reflect one's thinking.
言为心声。 - Out of debt, out of danger.
无债一身轻。 - Out of office, out of danger.
无官一身轻。 - Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不见，心为静。 - Patience is the best remedy.
忍耐是良药。 - Penny wise, pound foolish.
贪小便宜吃大亏。 - Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
正大光明者，说到的多，做到的少。 - Please the eye and plague the heart.
贪图一时快活，必然留下隐祸。 - Pleasure comes through toil.
苦尽甘来。 - Pour water into a sieve.
竹篮子打水一场空。 - Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。 - Praise is not pudding.
恭维话不能当饭吃。 - Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟。 - Prefer loss to unjust gain.
宁可吃亏，不贪便宜。 - Prevention is better than cure.
预防胜于治疗。 - Pride goes before, and shame comes after.
骄傲使人落后。 - Promise is debt.
一诺千金。 - Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
谚语是日常经验的结晶。 - Pull the chestnut out of fire.
火中取栗。 - Put the cart before the horse.
本末倒置。 - Put your shoulder to the wheel.
鼎力相助。 - Reading enriches the mind.
开卷有益。 - Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.
读书健脑，运动强身。 - Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
要人尊敬，必须自重。 - Rome is not built in a day.
冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。 - Saying is one thing and doing another.
言行不一。 - Seeing is believing.
眼见为实。 - Seek the truth from facts.
实事求是。 - Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.
智者当差，不用交代。 - Set a thief to catch a thief.
以贼捉贼。 - Short accounts make long friends.
好朋友勤算账。 - Something is better than nothing.
聊胜于无。 - Soon learn, soon forgotten.
学得快，忘得快。 - Soon ripe, soon rotten.
熟得快，烂得快。 - Speech is silver, silence is gold.
能言是银，沉默是金。 - Still water run deep.
静水常深。 - Strike the iron while it is hot.
趁热打铁。 - Success belongs to the persevering.
坚持就是胜利。 - Take things as they come.
既来之，则安之。 - Talking mends no holes.
空谈无补。 - Talk of the devil and he will appear.
说曹操，曹操就到。 - Tall trees catch much wind.
树大招风。 - Teach others by your example.
躬亲示范。 - The best hearts are always the bravest.
无私者无畏。 - The best man stumbles.
伟人也有犯错时。 - The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.
掩耳盗铃。 - The danger past and God forgotten.
过河拆桥。 - The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.
黎明前的黑暗。 - The darkest place is under the candlestick.
烛台底下最暗。 - The devil knows many things because he is old.
老马识途。 - The devil sometimes speaks the truth.
魔鬼有时也会说真话。 - The die is cast.
木已成舟。 - The early bird catches the worm.
早起的鸟儿有虫吃。 - The end justifies the means.
只要目的正当，可以不择手段。 - The end makes all equal.
死亡面前，人人平等。 - The eye is bigger than the belly.
贪多嚼不烂。 - The farthest way about is the nearest way home.
抄近路反而绕远路。 - The finest diamond must be cut.
玉不琢，不成器。 - The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.
烈火验真金，艰难磨意志。 - The first step is the only difficulty.
迈出第一步是最艰难的。 - The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.
机关算尽太聪明，反误了卿卿性命。 - The fox preys farthest from home.
兔子不吃窝边草。 - The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.
坐井观天。 - The grass is greener on the other side.
这山望着那山高。 - The greatest talkers are always least doers.
语言的巨人总是行动的矮子。 - The higher up, the greater the fall.
爬得高，摔得惨。 - The leopard cannot change its spots.
本性难移。 - The more noble, the more humble.
人越高尚，越谦虚。 - The more wit, the less courage.
初生牛犊不怕虎。 - The outsider sees the most of the game.
旁观者清。 - The pen is mightier than the sword.
笔能杀人。 - The pot calls the kettle black.
五十步笑百步。 - There are spots in the sun.
太阳也有黑点。 - There are two sides to every question.
问题皆有两面。 - There is a skeleton in the cupboard.
家家有本难念的经。 - There is kindness to be found everywhere.
人间处处有温情。 - There is no general rule without some exception.
任何法规均有例外。 - There is no medicine against death.
没有长生不老药。 - There is no place like home.
金窝银窝不如咱的狗窝。 - There is no royal road to learning.
书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。 - The style is the man.
字如其人。 - The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
人言可畏。 - The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.
水能载舟，亦能覆舟。 - The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.
清者自清，浊者自浊。 - The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.
螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后。 - The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
世界如阶梯，有人上有人下。 - The world is but a little place, after all.
海内存知己，天涯若比邻。 - Think twice before you do.
三思而后行。 - Things at the worst will mend.
否极泰来。 - Time and tide wait for no man.
时不我待。 - Time cures all things.
时间是医治一切创伤的良药。 - Time flies.
光阴似箭。 - Time is money.
时间就是金钱。 - Time lost cannot be won again.
时光流逝，不可复得。 - Time past cannot be called back again.
时间不能倒流。 - Time tries all.
路遥知马力，日久见人心。 - Tit for tat is fair play.
人不犯我，我不犯人；人若犯我，我必犯人。 - To err is human.
人非圣贤，孰能无过。 - To know everything is to know nothing.
什么都知道，一如什么都不知道。 - To know oneself is true progress.
人贵有自知之明。 - Tomorrow never comes.
我生待明日，万事成蹉跎。 - Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
过分熟悉会使人互不服气。 - Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
学问太多催人老。 - Too much liberty spills all.
自由放任，一事无成。 - Too much praise is a burden.
过多夸奖，反成负担。 - To save time is to lengthen life.
节约时间就是延长生命。 - Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋。 - Troubles never come singly.
福无双至，祸不单行。 - Truth never grows old.
真理永存。 - Turn over a new leaf.
洗心革面，改过自新。 - Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。 - Two heads are better than one.
一个好汉三个帮。 - Two of a trade seldom agree.
同行是冤家。 - Two wrongs do not make a right.
别人错了，不等于你对了。 - Unity is strength.
团结就是力量。 - Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.
忠言逆耳利于行。 - Until all is over one's ambition never dies.
不到黄河心不死。 - Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
吃小亏占大便宜。 - Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
美德远远胜过美貌。 - Walls have ears.
小心隔墙有耳。 - Wash your dirty linen at home.
家丑不可外扬。 - Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
滴水穿石。 - Wealth is nothing without health.
失去健康，钱再多也没用。 - We know not what is good until we have lost it.
好东西，失去了才明白。 - Well begun is half done.
好的开始，是成功的一半。 - We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
井干方知水可贵。 - We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
欲求完美无缺的朋友必然成为孤家寡人。 - We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.
自己的好事别去提，别人的恩惠要铭记。 - Wet behind the ears.
乳臭未干。 - Whatever you do, do with all your might.
不管做什么，都要一心一意。 - What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
儿时所学，终生难忘。 - What's done cannot be undone.
生米煮成熟饭了。 - What's lost is lost.
失者不可复得。 - What we do willingly is easy.
愿者不难。 - When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
入国问禁，入乡随俗。 - When everybody's somebody then nobody's anybody.
人人都伟大，世间没豪杰。 - When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.
伤心旧事别重提。 - When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
新仇旧恨，齐上心头。 - When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
黄鼠狼给鸡拜年，没安好心。 - When wine is in truth, wit is out.
酒后吐真言。 - Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者事竟成。 - Where there is life, there is hope.
留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。 - Where there is smoke, there is fire.
事出有因。 - While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.
道高一尺，魔高一丈。 - Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.
搬弄口舌者必是小人。 - Whom the gods love die young.
好人不长命。 - Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.
智者嘴在心里，愚者心在嘴里。 - Work makes the workman.
勤工出巧匠。 - You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
蜡烛不能两头点，精力不可过分耗。 - You cannot eat your cake and have it.
鱼与熊掌，不可得兼。 - You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
强扭的瓜不甜。 - You may know by a handful the whole sack.
由一斑可知全貌。 - You never know what you can till you try.
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