英語名人警句
wealth is best known by want.人窮方知錢可貴
we can't judge a person by what he says but by what he does.
判斷一個人，不聽言語看行動
we only live once, but if we work it right, once is enough.
年華沒虛度，一生也足矣。
what is done by night appears by day. 若要人不知，除非已莫為
when a man is going down-hill, everyone will give him a push.
墻倒眾人推
when children stand quiet, they have done some harm. 孩子不吭聲，一定闖了禍
when one will not, two cannot quarrel. 一個巴掌拍不響
when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
10. two heads are better than one.
三個臭皮匠，頂個諸葛亮。
11. good company on the road is the shortest cut.
行路有良伴就是捷徑。
12. constant dropping wears the stone.
滴水穿石。
a bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
吃虧的和解也比勝訴強。
a bad conscience is a snake in one's heart.
做賊心虛。
a bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
壞習慣像鮮餡餅，分食要比保存好。
a bad padlock invites a picklock.
開門揖盜。
a bad thing never dies.
壞事傳千年。
a bad workman quarrels with his tools.
拙匠常怨工具差。
a bargain is a bargain.
達成的協議不可撕毀。
a beggar's purse is bottomless.
乞丐的錢袋是無底洞。
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
雙鳥在林不如一鳥在手。
a bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
聞其歌知其鳥，聽其言知其人。
a bird may be known by its song.
什么鳥唱什么歌。
a bit in the morning is better than nothing all day.
略有勝于全無。
a blind man who leans against a wall imagines that it's the boundary of the world.
坐井觀天。
a blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
秋波送盲，白費癡情。
a book is the same today as it always was and it will never change.
一本好書今天如此，將來也如此，永不改變。
a book that remains shut is but a block.
有書閉卷不閱讀，無異是一塊木頭。
a borrowed cloak does not keep one warm.
借來的斗篷不暖身。
absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
相聚愛益切，離別情更深。
1. let sleeping dogs lie.
勿惹事生非；勿打草驚蛇。
2. early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
睡得早，起得早，富裕、聰明、身體好。
3 . wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
胸中有知識，勝于手中有金錢。
4…… honesty is the best policy.
誠實才是上策。
5. beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
情人眼里出西施。
6. yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery.
7. the early bird catches the worm.
捷足先登
8. everybody's business is nobody's business.
人人都管等于沒人管。
9. thinking without learning is dangerous.
思而不學則殆。
10. he laughs best who laughs last.
誰笑在最后，誰笑得最好。
11. god helps them that help themselves.
自助者天助。
12. look before you leap.
三思而后行。
13. a new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。