1. A bad wife takes advice from every one but her own husband.

不好的妻子接納每個人的意見，卻不接納他丈夫的意見。

2. A good husband makes a good wife.

好夫有好妻。夫妻相好合。琴瑟與笙簧。

3. A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind. [French Proverb]

好丈夫應該耳聾，好妻子應該眼瞎。（法國諺語）

4. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

賢妻與健康乃男人之最大的財富。

5. A good wife is a good portion.

賢妻便是好嫁妝。

6. A good wife makes a good husband.

好妻有好夫。夫妻相好合。琴瑟與笙簧。

7. A man without a wife is but half a man.

人無賢妻只能算是半個人。

8. A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife.

一個男人最好和最壞的財富就是他的妻子。

9. A poor man who takes a rich wife, has a ruler, not a wife. [Greek Proverb]

窮人娶了富妻等於娶了一位統治者而不是一個妻子。 （希臘諺語）

10. An evil wife converts a man's house into a hell on earth.

邪惡的妻子使家庭變成人間地獄。

Write injuries in dust, kindness in marble.

把傷害寫在灰塵中，把仁慈寫在大理石上。

There is kindness to be found everywhere.

仁慈到處可見。

The poor man is often rich in kindness.

窮人經常富於仁慈。

Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency.

有時候寬厚是殘酷，殘酷也是寬厚。

One kindness is the price of another.

一方的仁慈是另一方的代價。

Kindness is often better than force.

仁慈常勝過武力。

Kindness is noblest weapon to conquer with.

仁愛乃征服人類之最高貴兵器。

Kindness is nobler than revenge.

仁慈比報復更高貴。

Kindness comes of will.

仁慈來自意志。

Kind words soften anger.

仁慈的話語使怒氣緩和。

Kind hearts are the garden; kind thoughts are the roots; kind words are the flowers; kind deeds are the fruits.

仁慈的心是花園；仁慈的思想是根莖； 仁慈的話語是花朵；仁慈的行為是果實。

Kind hearts are more than coronets. [A. L. Tennyson]

仁慈的心勝於冠冕。（但尼生）

Kind words heal wounded hearts.

仁慈的話語可以治療創傷的心靈。

Injury should be recompensed with kindness.

傷害應以仁慈來彌補。

Kind words do not wear the tongue.

仁慈的話語不會磨損舌頭。

Cruelty is the first attribute of the devil.

殘酷是魔鬼的第一屬性。

Work while you work, and play while you play; that is the way to be happy and gay.

工作時工作，遊戲時遊戲；這才是幸福之道。

Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit. [German Proverb]

工作雖苦，其果甜蜜。（德國諺語）

Work for all you're worth and you'll be worth more.

盡全力工作，你會更有價值。

When you play, play hard. When you work, don't play at all.

遊玩時，盡情遊玩；工作時，竭力工作。

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

不管做怎麼事，盡全力去做。

Whatever you do, do it well.

不管做怎麼事，都要把它做好。

What is worth doing is worth doing well.

凡是值得做的事情，就值得好好去做。

We should push our work; the work should not push us.

是我們推動工作，不是工作推動我們。

The laborer is worthy of his hire. [Luke 10:7]

工人得工價是應當的。（路加福音10:7）

The surest way to be happy is to be busy.

最確切的幸福之道，就是使自己忙碌。

The devil finds work for idle hands to do.

魔鬼找事給游手好閒的人去做。小人閒著為不善。

Want is the mother of industry.

需要為勤勉之母。窮則變，變則通。

Of idleness comes no goodness.

懶惰不會帶來好處。

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

懇勤可以清償債務，失望只會徒增債務。

It is only the idle that are wretched.

唯有懶惰的人才是卑鄙的人。

Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.

手腳勤快可以餬口。

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.

勤儉為富貴之本。

Industry is the parent of success.

勤勉為成功之本。

1. A gentleman ought to travel abroad, but dwell at home.

紳士應該到海外旅行，但要在本國定居。

2. A gentleman will do like a gentleman.

紳士的言行舉止要表現出像一位紳士。

3. A gentleman without an estate is like a pudding without suet.

紳士沒有產業猶如布丁缺少了板油。

4. A thief passes for a gentleman when thieving has made him rich.

成則為王，敗則為寇。

5. Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

懦弱的人永遠得不到美人的歡心。

6. He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions.

有紳士風度的人才是紳士。

7. 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。

8. It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.

彩色繽紛的衣服不能塑造紳士。

9. It takes three generations to make a gentleman.

塑造一位紳士需要花上三代時光。

10. Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French.

只要會說法語，人人可做紳士。

11. Jack would be a gentleman if he had money.

只要有錢，人人可做紳士。

12. Manners and money make a gentleman.

禮貌和金錢塑造名流。

13. The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman.

國王能夠塑造武士，卻不能塑造紳士。

14. You a lady, I a lady, who will milk the cow?

你是淑女，我是淑女，誰來擠牛奶。

1. A good lawyer does not go to law himself. [Italian Proverb]

好的律師本人不會訴諸法律。（義大利諺語）

2. A good lawyer must be a great liar.

好的律師一定是偉大的說謊者。

3. Be just before you are generous.

先小人後君子。

4. Be just to all, but trust not all.

對所有的人要公正，但不要信賴所有的人。

5. Every law has a loophole.

每一項法律都有漏洞。一法立，一弊生。

6. Few lawyers die well, few physicians live well.

律師少有善終，醫生少有悠閒。

7. Go before God with justice, before the judge with money.

帶著公義見上帝；帶著金錢見法官。

8. Go to law for a sheep and lose your cow.

為了一隻羊訴諸法律，就會輸掉一隻牛。

9. Good laws often proceed from bad manners.

好的法律常常是由不良的禮貌而生。

10. Good lawyer, bad neighbor. [French Proverb]

好的律師是壞的鄰居。（法國諺語）

11. Hunger obeys no laws.

三天不吃飯，什麼事都敢幹。

12. Ignorance does not avert the law.

無知的人不懂得躲避法律。

13. In justice is all virtue found in sum.

簡言之，所有美德都是在正義中尋獲。

14. Just notions will grow into good actions.

公正的信念孕育出良好的作為。

15. Justice has long arms.

天網恢恢，疏而不漏。

16. Justice is a noble quality.

正義是高貴的素養。

17. Justice is higher than expediency.

正義優於權宜。

1. A cat has nine lives.

貓有九命。

2. A dead bee makes no honey.

死的蜜蜂不會釀蜜。

3. A dead mouse feels no cold.

死的老鼠不覺得寒冷。

4. A fair death honors the whole life. [Jonathan Swift]

死得正直，一生光榮。（斯威夫特）

5. A live ass is better than a dead lion.

A living ass is better than a dead doctor.

A live dog is better than a dead lion.

(活驢勝過死獅。)  好死不如賴活

6. A long life has long miseries.

漫長的人生多苦難。

7. A man can die but once. (A man can only die once.) [Hebrews 9:27]

人人都有一死。（希伯來書9:27）

8. All men are mortal.

人人都有一死。

9. An evil life is a kind of death. [Ovid]

邪惡的生活，便是死亡的一種。（奧維德）

10. As a man lives, so shall he die.

有生必有死。

11. Better die a beggar than live a beggar.

不食嗟來之食。

11. Bread is the staff of life.

麵包是生命的依靠。民以食為先。

12. Call no man happy till he is dead.

人未死不能說他快樂。蓋棺論定。

The thought has good legs, and the quill a good tongue.

思想能跑，翎筆能言。

The pen is the tongue of the hand.

筆桿猶如手中之舌。

The pen is mightier than the sword. 。

筆比劍更厲害。筆桿強過槍桿。文勝於武

The first principle and source of all good writing is to think justly. [Horace]

一切好的作品之首要原則就是正確的思考。（賀瑞斯）

One who has literary tastes is rarely expert in military exercises.

有文學氣質的人，在軍事演習上也是一位難能可貴的專家。

Make authorship your avocation, not your vocation.

把寫作當作你的副業，不要把它當作正業。

Literature is a good staff but a bad crutch.

文學是好的支柱，卻是壞的拐杖。

Literature is a good crutch, but a very bad walking stick.

文學是好的拐杖，卻是壞的手杖。

Life without literature is death. [Latin Proverb]

沒有文學的人生雖生猶死。（拉丁諺語）

Brevity is in writing what charity is to all other virtues.

簡潔之於寫作猶如寬恕之於所有其他美德。

1. A bad woman is worse than a bad man.

壞女人比壞男人更壞。

2. A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.

男人覺得自己多老，就有多老； 女人看起來多老，就有多老。 男人年紀憑感覺，女人年紀憑外貌。

3. A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.

一個窮光棍的男人勝過一個腰纏百萬的女人。

4. A woman conceals what she knows not.

女人隱藏她所不知道的。（意指女人會說出所知道的一切。）

5. A woman has an eye more than a man.

女人比男人多長一隻眼睛。

6. A woman is flax, a man is fire, the devil comes and blows the bellows.

女人是風，男人是火，魔鬼來煽風點火。

7. A woman is the weaker vessel.

女人是弱者。

8. A woman’s work is never done.

女人的家務事，永無休止。

9. A woman’s mind and winter wind change oft.

女人的心和冬天的風說變就變。水性楊花。

10. Choose neither a woman nor linen by candle-light.

選女人如選布，絕不可只憑燭光。

11. Deeds are males, and words are females.

「做」是男人的事，「說」是女人的事。

12. Gaming, women and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

賭博，女人和酒，發作時使男人憔悴。

13. Man is the head, but woman turns it.

男人雖有權威，卻受到女人支配。

14. Men get wealth and women keep it.

男人謀財，女人守財。

1. A bad peace is even worse than war. [Whitman]

不好的和平甚至比戰爭更壞。（惠特曼）

2. A deceitful peace is more hurtful than an open war.

明槍易躲，暗箭難防。

3. A just war is better than an unjust peace.

公平的戰爭勝過不公平的和平。

4. Better an egg in peace than an ox in war.

和平時一隻蛋勝過戰爭時一隻牛。

5. By wisdom peace, by peace plenty.

智慧生和平，和平生富裕。

6. He that makes a good war, makes a good peace.

奮勇作戰的人才能獲得真正的和平。

7. He that will not have peace, God gives him war.

不愛和平的人，上帝賜他們戰爭。

8. If you wish for peace, be prepared for war. (If you want peace, you must prepare for war.)

欲求和平，必須準備戰爭。

9. In peace prepare for war.

和平時不忘備戰。

10. It is safest making peace with sword in hand.

手握兵器談和平最安全。

1. A soft answer turneth away wrath. [Proverbs 15:1]

回答柔和，使怒消退。（箴言15:1）

2. Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.

發出愚蠢的問題，就會得到愚蠢的答案。

3. Ask and it shall be given you. [Matthew 7:7]

你們祈求，就給你們。（馬太福音7:7）

4. Ask no questions and hear no lies. (Ask no questions and be told no lies.)

不發問，就聽不見謊言。是非終日有，不聽自然無。

5. Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler.

避開好問者，因他也是是非人。

6. Better to ask the way than go astray.

路在嘴邊，一問便知。不問不知，迷路無知。

7. He that asks faintly begs a denial.

軟弱的請求換來拒絕的回覆。

8. He that cannot ask, cannot live.

一事不問之人，則無法生存。

9. He that nothing questions, nothing learns. (He that nothing questioneth nothing learneth.)

什麼事都不問的人，什麼事都學不會。

10. He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

畏問者，恥於學。

11. It is not every question that deserves an answer.

並非每個問題都有答案。

12. Like question, like answer.

有怎樣的問題，就有怎樣的回答。

13. Never answer a question until it is asked.

不需要回答的時候，不要回答。

14. No answer is also an answer.

不回答也是回答。

15. The shortest answer is doing.

最簡短的回答就是實際去做。

16. There are two sides to every question . [Latin Proverb]

每個問題都有兩面。（拉丁諺語）