1. A fair woman without virtue is like palled wine.

美女無德如酒無味。

2. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. [John Keats]

美的事物是永恆的喜悅。（濟慈）

3. All cats are grey in the dark.

貓在黑暗中通通都是灰色的。

4. Beauty and honesty seldom agree.

美貌和貞潔難得和睦相處。美女多不貞。

5. Beauty and wisdom rarely go together. [German Proverb]

美麗與才智鮮能兼備。美女多不智。(德國諺語)

6. Beauty fades like a flower.

紅顏薄命。

7. Beauty is but skin deep.

美麗只是膚淺的東西。美貌只是外表而已。

8. Beauty is eloquent even when silent.

甚至在靜默的時候，美麗也是口若懸河。

9. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

情人眼裏出西施。

10. Beauty is the child of love.

情人眼裏出西施。

11. Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.

美麗長出漂亮的葉子，卻生出苦辣的果實。

12. Beauty’s sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

美麗的姐妹是虛榮，她的女兒是情慾。

13. Beauty’s tears are lovelier than her smiles.

美人的眼淚比她的微笑更可愛。

14. Fair face, foul heart.

人面獸心。

15. Fair faces need no paint.

美麗的容貌用不著塗脂抹粉。

16. Fair without and foul (false) within.

金玉其外，敗絮其中。繡花枕頭。

17. Grace will last, beauty will blast.

神的恩典永不止息; 人的美麗終會凋謝。

18. Handsome is what (that, as) handsome does.

有德才是美。善行重於美貌。

19. If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.

情人眼裏出西施。

20. Pretty face, poor fate. [Chinese Proverb]

自古紅顏多薄命。（中國諺語）

1. A big man is usually a little man, who takes advantage of an opportunity.

所謂大人物，只是懂得利用機會的小人物。

2. A great tree attracts the wind.

樹大招風。

3. A little body often harbors a great soul.

偉大的靈魂常寓於短小的驅體。

4. A little help is worth a deal of pity.

濟弱扶困勝於同情。

5. A little pot is soon hot.

器小易盈。心胸狹隘。人窮志短。

6. A little spark may kindle a great fire.

星星之火可能釀成大火。

7. A little wariness prevents great weariness.

一點點的謹慎避免莫大的疲勞。

8. A miss is as good as a mile.

失之毫釐，差之千里。

9. A small leak will sink a great ship.

小小的漏洞可以弄沉一艘大船。牽一髮，動全身。

10. Eagles do not catch flies.

大雞不吃細米。

11. Every great thing is nothing but a lot of little ones.

每一件大事只不過是由無數的小事所綴成的。

12. Every little helps.

一點一滴都有助益。

13. Every oak has been an acorn.

千里之行，始於足下。由小到大。

14. Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

只要功夫深，鐵杵磨成針。

15. For want of a nail, the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe, the horse is lost; for want of a horse, the rider is lost.

千里之堤，潰於蟻穴。

1. A good beginning makes a good ending.

有好的開始才有好的結局。善始者必善終。

2. A hard beginning makes a good ending.

先苦後甜。

3. All good things must come to an end.

天下無不散之筵席。

4. All things are difficult before they are easy.

萬事起頭難。

5. All’s well that ends well.

結局好，一切都好。吉人自有天相。

6. An ill beginning, an ill ending.

不善始者不善終。

7. At the game’s end, we shall see who gains.

比賽結束後，方見得勝者。

8. Bad beginnings have ever bad endings.

惡始必有惡終。不慎始者，常得惡果。

9. Everything has an end.

凡事都會結束

10. Everything must have a beginning.

凡事都有個開頭。

11. Good to begin well, better to end well.

有好的開始是不錯的，堅持到底更重要。

12. He who begins many things, finishes but few.

樣樣事只有開始，到頭來一事無成。

13. He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.

九層之台，起於累土。千里之行，始於足下。

A black hen lays a white egg.

烏雞生白蛋。醜婦生俊兒。

A black plum is as sweet as a white.

烏梅白梅一樣甘甜。管它黑貓白貓，抓到老鼠便是好貓。

A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.

江山易改，本性難移。

After black clouds, clear weather.

烏雲散去天轉晴。

Death is the black camel that kneels before every door.

死亡像一頭黑駱駝，在每一家門前下跪。

Every bean has its black.

人人都有缺點。金無赤金，人無完人。

Every white hath its black, and every sweet its sour.

有白必有黑，有甜必有苦。每樣事物都有其缺陷。

He that has a white horse and a fair wife, never wants trouble.

擁有一匹白馬和漂亮太太的人，永遠不會缺少煩惱。

He that touches pitch shall be defiled.

近朱者赤，近墨者黑。

If the master says the crow is white, the servants must not say 'tis black.

主人若說烏鴉是白，僕人不該說它是黑。

The devil is not so black as he is painted.

魔鬼並不如人所說的那麼壞。過甚其詞。

The fairer the paper, the fouler the blot.

黑白分明。

The pot calls the kettle black.

五十步笑百步。半斤八兩。

There is no wool so white but a dyer can make it black.

人非聖賢，孰能無過。

There's a black sheep in every flock.

任何群體，總有害群之馬。樹大有枯枝，族大有乞兒。

A book that is shut, is but a block.

書本備而不閱，猶如木片毫無益處。開卷有益。

A good book is a light to the soul.

一本好書是靈魂之光。

A good book is the best of friends, the same today, and forever.

一本好書是最好的朋友，現在如此，永遠如此。

A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.

圖書館是治療精神之病院。

A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.

一本不良的書籍比壞人更壞，因為它不知悔過。

By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.

讀書使心智豐富，交談使心智明亮。

Books and friends should be few and well chosen.

書籍和朋友，貴精不貴多。多不如少，少不如好。

Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. [George William Curtis]

書籍乃世人累積智慧之不滅明燈。（寇蒂斯）

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

每一個人都是一卷書，只要你懂得如何閱讀它。

Good books need no boost.

好書無需誇耀。

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

有些書給我們自由，有些書則使我們自由。

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

好書開卷時引人入勝，終卷時使人獲益。

You cannot tell a book by its cover.

不能從封面了解書的內容。凡事不可貌相。

A beggar can never be bankrupt.

乞兒不會破產。

A beggar cannot be a chooser.

討飯難揀嘴。饑餓難擇食。鹿死不擇蔭。

A beggar pays a benefit with a louse.

以怨報德。

Beggar's bags are bottomless.

窮起來不怕錢多。

Better beg than steal.

求乞總好過偷竊。

Better buy than borrow.

「借」不如「買」的好。

Better die a beggar than live a beggar.

不食嗟來之食。

Borrowed garments never fit well.

借來的外套不合適。

Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Lessing]

借錢無異於求乞。（萊興）

First you borrow, then you beg. [Ernest Hemingway]

先是向人借貸，後來向人乞求。(海明威)

He learned timely to beg that could not say "Nay".

學會在適當的時候向人請求，就不會被拒絕。

He that borrows binds himself with his neighbor's rope.

向人借錢的人，就是用鄰居的繩子把自己捆綁。

He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.

有債便有愁。

Idleness is the key of beggary.

懶惰是求乞的主要因素。

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

假如願望都能實現，乞丐都會發財。

1. A bold heart is half the battle.

勇敢是勝利的一半。

2. A brave and honest man will speak out.

一個勇敢和誠實的人大膽說話。

3. A brave arm makes a short sword long.

一個勇敢的人，手中的短刃也會變成長劍。

4. A brave man’s wounds are seldom on his back.

一個勇敢的人背部很少受到傷害。

5. A bully is always a coward.

欺負弱小的人膽子最小。欺善怕惡。

6. A cock is always bold on its own dunghill.

公雞在自己的糞堆上稱雄。狗是百步王，只在門前狠。

7. A man of courage never wants weapons.

一個有勇氣的人絕不會缺少武器。

8. A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword.

橫眉冷對千夫指。

9. Bold men have generous heart.

勇敢的人都有寬宏大量的心腸。

10. Brave actions never want a trumpet.

英勇的行為永遠不需吹噓。

A handful of trade is a handful of gold.

一把貿易，一把黃金。

A hundred tricks are not so good as one well-learned trade.

百藝無如一藝精。

A Jack of all trades is master of none.

萬事通，無事精通。周身刀沒把利。

A trade is better than service.

買賣勝於服務。

A useful trade is a mine of gold.

有用的貿易猶如金礦。

Best is cheapest.

最好的東西最便宜。

Business before pleasure. (Business first and pleasure after.)

先談生意，再談娛樂。

Business is business.

在商言商。公事公辦。

Business is the best sport in the world.

商務是世界上最好的戶外活動。

Business is the salt of life; business and action strengthen the brain.

商務是生命之鹽；商務和行動增強腦力。

Business knowledge cannot be bought. It can only be acquired by long study.

商務的知識不是用金錢買來的。它是經過長時間學來的。

Capital, labor, and brains -- and all as equally essential in business as each leg of a three-legged stool.

資本，勞工，和腦力在商務上同樣重要，猶如三腳架上的每一隻腳。

Cheap things are never very good.

便宜貨絕不是好東西。

Courtesy is the lubricant which oils the wheels of business.

禮貌是商務巨輪的潤滑油。

Despatch is the soul of business.

辦事以迅速為貴。

Anger is the cause of sin.

憤怒乃犯罪之因。

As you brew, so must you drink.

自食其果。

As you sow, so you reap. (As a man sows, so shall he reap.)

種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆。一分耕耘，一分收穫。

As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.

自作自受。作繭自縛。

Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.

三思而後行。

Every why has a wherefore.

事出必有因。

Look before you leap.

三思而後行。

No cross, no crown.

沒有痛苦的十字架，那有榮耀的冠冕。不受磨難不成佛。

No smoke without fire. (There is no smoke without fire.) (Where there's smoke, there's fire.)

無火那有煙。無風不起浪。事出必有因。

One good turn deserves another.

種善因，得善果。善有善報。

One wrong thought may cause a life-long regret.

一失足成千古恨。

Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. [Hosea 8:7] (They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.)

他們所種的是風，所收的是暴風。（何西亞書8:7）

Take away the cause, and the effect must cease.

沒有因，那有果。

Think before you act.

三思而後行。

A bad padlock invites picklock.

壞鎖惹來撬鎖人。（予人可趁之機。）

When fortune smiles, embrace her.

當命運之神向你微笑時，就應擁抱祂。

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

弱者等待機會，強者創造機會。

The man who loses his opportunities loses himself. [George Moore]

失去機會的人就失去了自身。（摩爾）

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. [Robert Herrick]

花開堪折直須折，莫待無花空折枝。(赫里克)

Take time when time comes.

當時機來臨時，就應把握它。

Strike while the iron is hot.

打鐵趁熱。

Opportunity seldom knocks twice.

機會很少會敲兩次門。福無重至。

Opportunity makes the thief.

有機可趁，盜賊四起。

Opportunity comes often to the man who is ready for it.

機會總是衝著做好準備的人而來。

Make hay while the sun shines.

趁著陽光普照，把秝草灑乾。趁機行事莫蹉跎。

It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.

錯失良機，悔之恨晚。

It chances in an hour, that happens not in seven years.

一小時的偶然機會，七年內再也不會出現。千載難逢。

Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.

順風駛帆。（勿失良機。）

He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.

能做而不去做，等到想做的時候便沒有機會去做。

A good character is better than a good fortune.

好的品德勝過於一筆豐厚的財產。

Meat is much, but manner is more.

衣食足而後禮義興。

Manners make the man.

儀表造人品。一表人才。

Manners make often fortunes.

禮貌常使人致富。

Manners and money make a gentleman.

貌和金錢塑造名流。

It is not good manners to show your learning before ladies.

在女士面前炫耀自己的學問是失禮的。

It is bad manners to stare at one in the face.

瞪著別人的臉來看是沒有禮貌的。

Great manners are attractive.

良好的禮貌是誘人的。好禮貌，吸引人。

Good manners like good words, cost nothing, and are worth everything.

良好的禮貌猶如良言，雖是一文不值，卻是價值連城。

Good manners are the fine flowers of civilization.

良好的禮貌是文明的漂亮花朵。

Character is what makes one man stand out more prominently than another.

一個人的德性使他與眾不同。。

Full of courtesy, full of craft.

禮多必詐

Evil communications corrupt good manners. [I Corinthians 15:33]

濫交是敗壞善行。（哥林多前書15:33）

Character is the first and last word in the success circle. With it you have riches no money can buy. Without it you are a pauper.

品德是成功的始末。擁有它，就擁有金錢買不到的財富。 缺少了它，就成為貧民，一無所有。

Character in a man creates an impression.

一個人的個性塑造了他的形象。

Wrong never comes right.

錯誤終究是錯誤，絕不會變成正確。

Who will go far must go slow. [German Proverb]

跑得慢，跑得遠。慢慢划船先登岸。（德國諺語）

Who comes uncalled, sits unserved. (He that comes unbidden goes unthanked.)

不速之客，不受歡迎。

Where the needle goes, the thread follows.

嫁雞隨雞，嫁狗隨狗。

When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.

兩雄相遇，必有激鬥。強中更有強中手，惡人自有惡人磨。

What's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh.

江山易改，本性難移。

Tomorrow never comes.

明日永不再。

Thursday comes, and the week is gone.

當禮拜四到來時，這一週也快結束。

There comes nought out of the sack but what was there.

大勢已去。 狗嘴吐不出象牙。

The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down.

世界好像是一把梯子，有人向上爬，有人往下跑。 有人掛冠歸故里，有人臨夜趕科場。

The weakest goes to the wall.

最軟弱的人處處碰壁。弱肉強食。

Repentance comes too late.

後悔莫及。悔之已晚。

Take things as they come.

既來之則安之。

The sluggard's convenient season never comes.

春天不是讀書天，夏日炎炎正好眠， 等到秋來冬又至，收拾書包待明年。

Men come and pass; mountains stay forever.

生生死死，青山依舊。

With customs we live well, but laws undo us.

風俗使我們的生活美滿，法律卻破壞我們的美滿生活。

Use doth breed a habit.

實踐生習慣。

So many countries, so many customs.

各國風俗，各有不同。

Pursuits become habits.

因循會變成習慣。

Old habits die hard.

舊習慣很難戒掉。

Old customs are best.

舊風俗最好。

Men do more things through habit than through reason.

人做事經常由於習慣多過於理性。

Indolence is about the worst habit a man can form.

怠惰大概是一個人所養成的最壞習慣。

Habits are great helps or great hindrances.

習慣帶給人類許多的幫助，也帶來許多的阻礙。

Good habits are the best friends of man.

良好的習慣是人的良友。

Habit is a friend or foe.

習慣，不是朋友，就是敵人。

Great is the force of habit. [Latin Proverb]

習慣的力量相當大。(拉丁諺語)

Every one has his particular habit. [Latin Proverb]

每個人都有其獨特的習慣。（拉丁諺語）

Every one has his own custom.

每個人都有自己的習慣。

Do in Rome as the Romans do.

入鄉隨俗。

When the sun comes in, the doctor goes out.

陽光進來，醫生離去。

There is no medicine for fear.

恐懼是沒有藥物可以治療的。

There is no medicine for a fool. [French Proverb]

傻瓜是無藥可救的。（法國諺語）

The wise will not rely on medicine for keeping their health.

有智慧的人不依賴藥物來維持健康。

The windows open more will keep the doctor from the door.

窗戶常打開，醫生快離開。

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

醫生常常比疾病更可怕。

The best doctors are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merryman.

最好的醫師就是飲食，安靜，和快樂。

Repentance is the heart's medicine. [German Proverb]

懊悔是醫治心靈的良藥。（德國諺語）

Repentance is a pill unwillingly swallowed.

懊悔是一顆人們不願意吞服的藥丸。

Repentance is a bitter physic.

懊悔是苦藥。

Medicines are not meat to live by.

藥物不像肉類可以賴以為生。

Laughter is the best medicine.

歡笑是最好的良藥。

If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

醫得了病，醫不了命。

Good medicine is bitter to the mouth. [Chinese Proverb]

良藥苦口利於病。（中國諺語）

Diet cures more than a doctor.

食物治療勝過於醫生的治療。