1. The early man never borrows from the late man.

早起三朝當一工，免得求人落下封。

2.The early bird catches the worm.

早起的鳥有蟲吃。莫道君行早，更有早行人。

3. Sooner begun, sooner done.

速戰速決。

4. Soon ripe, soon rotten.

早熟早爛。

5. It is too late to spare when the bottom is bare.

臨堤走馬收韁晚，船到江心補漏遲。

6. It is too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.

等到馬兒跑掉才關門，為時已晚。亡羊補牢，後悔已晚。

7. He who works before dawn will soon be his own master.

黎明前做工的人將做自己的主人。

8. He that will thrive must rise at five.

若要飛黃騰達，五點須起床。

9. He that rises late, must trot all day.

晚起床的人必須整天都要急步疾走。

10. He is never too late to mend.

改過不嫌遲。亡羊補牢，未為晚也。

11. Better late than never.

遲到總比不到好。早播種，早收成。先下米，先吃飯。

12. Early sow, early mow.

早種早收，可以用來形容勤勞工作的人。

(早開始是成功的保證。)

13. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

早上一小時抵過晚上兩小時。一日之計在於晨。

14. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

睡得早起得早，聰明富裕身體好。

15. Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.

日出而作，日入而息。

16. All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill.

有情人終成眷屬。

Once bitten, twice shy.

一朝被蛇咬，十年怕草繩。談虎色變。心有餘悸。

Old birds are not caught with chaff.

老雀不易受騙。

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.

沒有學問的經驗勝過沒有經驗的學問。

Experience is what a man does with what happens to him.

經驗是一個人處理他所遭遇過的經歷。 經一事，長一智。

Experience is the mother of wisdom.

經驗乃智慧之母。

Experience is the mistress of fools.

經驗是愚者之師。經一事，長一智。

Experience is a precious gift, only given a man when his hair is gone. [Turkish Proverb]

經驗是一件珍貴禮品，衹獻給頭髮脫落的人。（土耳其諺語）

A painful experience makes us cautious in the future.

痛苦的經驗使我們將來更為謹慎。

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

教育是成為紳士的第一步，而談吐則畢其成。

Experience is a school from which no one can never graduate.

經驗是一所人人都能畢業的學校。

Education polishes good natures, and corrects bad ones.

教育修飾良好的本性，矯正不良的本性。

Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other.

吃虧學乖代價高，笨漢非此學不好。

Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.

天生扭曲者，無法因教育變直。

An investment in education pays the best dividends.

投資教育將來一定有好處。

Experience is the best teacher.

經驗乃最佳的良師。經一事，長一智。

1. Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows.

上行下效。

2. We live by laws, not by examples.

我們是以法律為依歸，不是以個人的典範為依歸。

3. The friar preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve.

托缽僧勸人勿偷盜，袖子裡卻藏著一隻鵝。監守自盜。（口是心非，言行相悖。）

4. Teach others by thy examples.

教人須以身作則。

5. Precepts may lead and examples draw.

教訓能指引人；實踐能推動人。

6. Precept begins, example accomplishes.

以教訓來開始，以實踐來完成。

7. Practice what you preach. (Practice what one preaches.)

躬行己說。言出必行。

8. One sheep follows another.

羊群彼此倣效。

9.No marvel if the imps follow when the devil goes before.

魔鬼帶頭，難怪小鬼紛紛跟隨。

10. It is well to profit by the folly of others.

前車可鑒。

11. If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.

一羊跳過水溝，眾羊相繼跟隨。

12. Do unto others as you would they should do unto you. [Luke 6:31]

你們願意人怎樣待你們，你們也要怎樣待人。（路加福音6:31）

13. He preaches well that lives well.

言行一致。

14. Example is better than precept.

身教重於言教。

15. Do as I say, not as I do.

照著我的話去做，不要跟著我去做。（本身言行不符，卻要他人遵循其言而行

1. Who that in youth, no virtue uses, in age all honor him refuses.

行善不趁少年時，休想晚年享榮華。

2. Where there is no honor there is no grief.

沒有榮譽，就沒有苦惱。

3. There is honor among thieves.

盜亦有道。

4. There are many ways to fame.

行行出狀元。

5. Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime.

無功得來的聲望卻常因無過而失去。

6. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

在一小時的生命裡充滿著榮耀勝過一輩子過著寂寂無名的生活。

7. Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

聲名狼籍常被誤認為鼎鼎大名。

8. Honors change manners. [Latin Proverb]

聲譽改變人的態度。（拉丁諺語）

9. Honor without profit is a ring on the finger.

沒有好處的榮譽猶如指頭上的戒指。

10. Honor shows the man.

榮譽表現人品。

11. He who leaves the fame of good works after him does not die.

生前留下好名聲的人，死後其精神永遠不死。

12. Honor is the reward of virtue. [Latin Proverb]

有美德者必享美譽。（拉丁諺語）

13. Honor can only be purchased by worth actions.

榮譽只能用有價值的作為才可收購。

14. Honor buys no beef in the market.

榮譽買不到市場上的牛肉。

15. Honor brings responsibility. [Latin Proverb]

榮譽帶來責任。（拉丁諺語）

1.You can lead a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.

牛不喝水按不住牛頭低。

2. You cannot get water (blood) out of a stone.

石頭榨不出水來。老糠榨不出油來。（比喻硬心腸的人不會幫助別人。）

3. When the heart is a fire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth.

心裡有什麼，嘴裏總要洩露出來。

4. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. (We never miss the water till the water runs dry.)

井枯方知水重要。身在福中不知福。

5. Water is the king of food. [African Proverb]

水是食物之王。（非洲諺語）

6. Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

(水在沙漠中是人的恩物，快淹死的人卻咒詛它。)   需要隨環境而異。

7. Water afar off quencheth not fire.

遠水救不了近火。

8. Violent fires soon burn out.

野火燒不盡，春風吹又生。

9. Under water, famine, under snow, bread.

洪水泛濫有飢荒，雪花飄落有糧食。

10. Too much water drowned the miller.

過猶不及。

11. Three removes are as bad as a fire. 。

上屋搬下屋，都要拋掉一籮穀。一搬三窮

12. Those who drink but water will have no liquor to buy.

只喝白開水的人用不著買酒。

13. There is no smoke without fire.

無火那有煙。無風不起浪。事出必有因。

14. The straws floating upon the waters show how the stream runs.

草動知風向。觀微知著。

15. The smoke of a man’s own country is better than the fire of another’s.

敝帚自珍。

16. Pour water into a sieve.

竹籃打水一場空。

17. A drop in the bucket!

（一桶水裡的一滴）杯水車薪

1. Yield not to misfortunes. [Latin Proverb]

不要向惡運低頭。（拉丁諺語）

2. The worse luck now, the better another time.

這回倒楣，下回走運。十年風水輪流轉。

3. The footsteps of fortune are slippery.

幸福的腳步是滑溜溜的。

4. Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us.

最不幸的就是從來沒有發生在我們身上的不幸事故。

5. One misfortune rides upon another's back. (One misfortune comes on the neck of another.)

禍不單行。

6. No man is content with his lot.

沒有人會滿足自己的命運。

7. Misfortunes tell us where fortune is.

不幸才知幸福好。憶苦思甜。

8. Misfortunes never come singly. (Misfortunes seldom come singly.)

禍不單行。

9. Misfortunes hasten age.

不幸催人老。

10.Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night.

甚至在黑夜裏，不幸也不會迷路。

11. Misfortunes come of themselves.

不幸來自不幸。

12. Misfortunes are helpful and instructive.

不幸是有益的。

13. Misfortune tastes the sincerity of friends.

只有在不幸時才能體驗到朋友的真誠。患難見真情。

14. Misfortune is a good teacher.

不幸是良師。

15. Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot. (Misfortune comes on wings and departs on foot)

不幸，來得快，去得慢。不幸，來如風雨，去似微塵。

1. A man apt to promise is apt to forget.

容易作出承諾的人，也很容易忘掉他的承諾。

2. By forgetness of injuries we show ourselves superior to them.

忘記創傷就不會被創傷所傷害。

3. Do not forget little kindness and do not remember small faults. [Chinese Proverb]

小善不忘，小錯不念。（中國諺語）

4. Forgive all but thyself. [French Proverb]

寬恕所有的人，但別輕易寬恕自己。將恕己之心恕人。（阿拉伯諺語）

5. Forgive and forget injuries, but never forget benefits.

對於別人的加害，寬恕他，忘了一切； 受了別人的恩惠，卻不應忘記。

6. Forgive and forget.

不念舊惡。既往不咎。

7. Forgiveness from the heart is better than a box of gold. [Moorish Proverb]

一顆寬仁之心重於一箱黃金。（摩爾諺語）

8. Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered.

當罪被赦免時，寬恕是完美的。

9. He that does you an ill turn will never forgive you.

以怨報德的人，絕不會寬恕別人。

10. He that forgives gains the victory. [African Proverb]

寬恕敵人的人，才獲得勝利。（非洲諺語）

11. He who forgives others, God forgives him.

寬恕別人者，神必寬恕他。

12. To err is human, to forgive divine. 

1. Who receives a gift, sells his liberty.

接受禮物者，出賣自由。

2. Who loses his liberty loses all.

失去自由，就失去一切。

3. Where liberty is, there is my country.

[Latin Proverb]

那裡有自由，那裡就是我的國家。(拉丁諺語)

4. Too much liberty spoils all.

太多的自由破壞一切。

5. To receive a favor is to sell your liberty.

[Latin Proverb]

接受好處就等於出賣自由。(拉丁諺語)

6. No man is free who cannot command himself.

不能自我控制的人不算自由。

7. My country is dear but liberty is dearer.

 [Latin Proverb]

國家雖珍貴，自由更可貴。（拉丁諺語）

8. Liberty is not licence.

自由並非執照。

9. Liberty is more worth than gold.

自由抵萬金。

1. A father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is both.

父親是寶藏，兄弟是安逸，但朋友兩者皆是。

2. A flattering friend is your worst enemy. [Danish Proverb]

諂媚之友是你最可怕的敵人。(丹麥諺語)

3. A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.

與其袋中有錢，不如朝中有人。

4. A friend in court makes the process short.

朝上有人好做官。近官得力，近廚得食。

5. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

患難之友才是真友。

6. A friend is a second self.

朋友是第二個自己。

7. A friend is best found in adversity.

災難見真友。風雨故人來。

8. A friend is proved in distress.

災難見真友。

9. A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

朋友就是一位最能了解你，同樣關愛你的人。

10. A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.

朋友應該容忍朋友的缺點。

11. A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. (A friend to all is a friend to none.)

人盡可友的人，不是真正朋友。濫交者無友。

12. A hedge between keeps friendship green.

君子之交淡如水。

13. A life without a friend is a life without a sun. [French Proverb] 人

生無友猶如生活中無太陽。（法國諺語）