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。
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。
Succebelongs 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 grais 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 lecourage.
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 kindneto 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。
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一、关于教育的谚语
1.A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (H.B.Adams, American historian)
教师的影响是永恒的;无法估计他的影响会有多深远。(美国历史学家 亚当斯)
2.And gladly would learn, and gladly teach. (Chaucer, British poet)
勤于学习的人才能乐意施教。(英国诗人 乔叟)
3.Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. (Plato, Ancient Greek phiosopher)
与其不受教育，不知不生，因为无知是不幸的根源。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)
4.Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education:dancing with the feet, with ideas, with works, and ,need I add that one must also be able
to dance with the pen? (Friedrich W.Nietzsche, German philosopher)
所有高尚教育的课程表里都不能没有各种形式的跳舞：用脚跳舞，用思想跳舞，用言语跳舞，不用说，还需用笔跳舞。(德国哲学家 尼采)
5.Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. (Hosea Ballou British cducator)
教育始于母亲膝下，孩童耳听一言一语，均影响其性格的形成。(英国教育家 巴卢)
6.Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave. (John Ruskin, British art critic)
教育不在于使人知其所未知，而在于按其所未行而行。(英国艺术评论家 园斯金)
7.Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Durant, American historian)
教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。(美国历史学家 杜兰特)
8.Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist)
教育是令人羡慕的东西，但是要不时地记住：凡是值得知道的，没有一个是能够教会的。(英国剧作家 王尔得)
9.Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)
教育是以造就人的品质为其目标。(英国哲学家 斯宾塞)
10.Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (George Macaulay Trevelyan British historian)
教育造就了一大批人，他们会读书，但是不会区别什么书值得读。(英国历史学家 特里维廉)
11.Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats, lrish poet)
教育不是注满一桶水，而且点燃一把火。(爱尔兰诗人 叶芝)
12.Education is the chief defence of nations. (Edmund Bruke, British statesman)
教育是国家的主要防御力量。(英国政治家 伯克)
13.Education is the transmission of civilization. (Will Drant, American historian and essayist)
教育传播文明。(美国历史学家、散文家杜兰特)
14.Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. (Brougham, British statesman)
教育使一个民族容易领导，但是难于驱使;容易管理，却不可能奴役。(英国政治家 布罗马汉姆)
15.Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one , more important, which he gives himself. (Edward Gibbon, British historian)
每个人都受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的是来自自己。(英国历史学家 吉朋)
二、关于动物的
1.Bird
(1)Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭双雕;一举两得。
(2)A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。
(3)Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
(4)It's an ill bird that fouls own nest.
家丑不可外扬。
(5)Fine feathers make fine birds.
人要衣装，马要鞍。
(6)A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
听音识鸟，闻言识人。
(7)Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
鸟儿都爱听自己唱。(自我欣赏)
(8)You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
(粗糠)用粗糠捉不住老鸟。(有
(9)Birds in their little nests agree.
同巢之鸟心儿齐。
2.Cat
(1)A cat has nine lives.
猫有九条命;吉人天相。
(2)Cats hide their claws.
知人知面不知心。
(3)All cats are grey in the dark.
黑暗之中猫都是灰色的。(人未出名时看起来都差不多。)
(4)A gloved cat catches no mice.
戴手套的猫，老鼠抓不到。(不愿吃苦的人成不了大事业。)
(5)When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
黄鼠狼和猫结亲，不是好事情。
(6)Who will bwll the cat?
谁去给猫系铃?(谁愿意为大家冒风险?)
(7)The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
帽偷吃奶油的时候总是闭着眼睛。(掩耳盗铃)
(8)There are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter.
杀猫的办法很多。(达到目的的途径很多。)
(9)Care kill a cat.
忧虑愁死猫。
3.Chicken
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
鸡蛋未孵出，先别数小鸡。(不要过早乐观。)
4.Crow
A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.
江山易改，本性难移。
5.Dog
(1)He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad.
欲加之罪，何患无词。
(2)A staff is quickly found to beat a dog with.
欲加之罪，何患无词。
(3)Love me, love my dog.
爱屋及乌。
(4)Too much pudding will choke a dog.
布丁太多噎死狗。
(5)Every dog has his day.
人人皆有得意时。
(6)Barking dogs don't (seldom) bite.
爱叫的狗很少咬人。
(7)Let sleeping dogs lie.
勿惹事生非。
(8)Dead dogs bite not.
死狗不咬人。
(9)All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
狗见了叫的不一定都是贼。(不要以貌取人。)
(10)Every dog is a lion at home.
狗在家门口就成了狮子。
(11)Don't be a dog (lying) in the manger.
莫学狗占马槽不吃草。(不要占着茅坑不拉屎。)
(12)Dog does not eat dog.
同类不相残。
(13)Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
狗再傲慢也会吃脏布丁。
(14)A son never thinks his mother ugly,and a dog never shuns its owner's home however
shabby it is.
儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫
三、关于友谊的英语谚语
Set great store by friendship. 情意重千斤。
Between friends all is common. 朋友之间不分彼此。
Old friends and old wine are best. 陈酒味醇, 老友情深。
The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water. 君子之交淡如水。
A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. 海内存知己, 天涯若比邻。
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate. 人的友谊是无法言喻的。
Friendship is like a plant of slow growth. 友谊像生长着的植物, 是慢慢地建立起来的。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 好书如挚友, 情谊永不渝。
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. 路遥知马力, 日久见人心。
I like a simple friend, who holds my faults like a looking glass before my face.
我喜欢这样的朋友, 他对我的缺点就像照镜子一样直言不讳。
It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world .
世界上没有不犯错误的人. 想交没有错误的朋友, 你就没有朋友。
It is only the greathearted who can be true friends; the mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is. 只有伟大胸怀的.人才是真正的朋友; 平庸和怯懦之辈决不可能了解真正友谊的含义。
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
没有朋友的人不会幸福，不处逆境不能识别朋友。
Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. 远方的朋友能使世界变得非常宽阔; 他们组成了经纬度。
Of our mixed life two quests are given control: food for the body, friendship for the soul. 在复杂的生命中, 有两点要牢记:为生存需要吃饭, 而心灵需要友谊。
The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.
旅行中最愉快的事是交到一个真诚的朋友。
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
能交到真正的朋友是人生中最成功的事。
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them. 对朋友爱得越深, 奉承得就越少。
The smell of coin is often the knell of friendship. 铜臭味浓往往是友谊的不祥之兆。
The true friendship seeks to give, not take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto.
真正的友谊追求的是给予, 而不是索取; 是帮助别人, 而不是被人帮助; 是为人服务, 而不是被人服务。
To prepare a friend, three things are required: to honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities. 维护朋友, 有三件事情要做到：当面要尊重他, 不在场时要表扬他, 苦难时要帮助他。
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice. 选择朋友要像选书那样, 数量要少, 但质量要精。
My friend is not perfect—nor am I—and so we suit each other admirably.
朋友不会十全十美，你自己也一样，双方要互相尊敬。
For a congenial friend a thousand toasts are too few; in a disagreeable conversation one word more is too many. 酒逢知己千杯少，话不投机半句多。
四、关于健康的名言
A light heart lives long .( William Shakespeare , British dramatist )
豁达者长寿。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚。 W.)
Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise .(Benjamin Franklin, American president )
早睡早起会使人健康、富有和聪明。 (美国总统 富兰克林。 B.)
Sloth , like rust , consumes faster than labor wears .(Benjamin Franklin , Americanpresident)
懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。 (美国总统 富兰克林。 B.)
The first wealth is health .( Ralph Waldo Emerson , American thinker )
健康是人生第一财富。 (美国思想家 爱默生。 R. W.)
五、
All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
Failure is the mother of success. ——Thomas Paine
失败乃成功之母。
For man is man and master of his fate.
人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
The unexamined life is not worth living.——Socrates
混混噩噩的生活不值得过。——苏格拉底
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus
只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize
it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M. Nixon
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运。——尼克松
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.——John Ruskin
生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。——罗斯金
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.——George Eliot
没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。——乔治·埃略特
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.——Lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。——林肯
六、关于哲理的谚语
1.Be honest rather clever.
诚实比聪明更要紧。
2.Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.
随遇而安。
3.Be just to all, but trust not all.
要公正对待所有的人，但不要轻信所有的人。
4.Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
眼见的不能全信，耳闻的也不能半信。
5.Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
不轻诺，诺必果。
6.Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
多听少说。
7.Better an empty purse than an empty head.
宁可钱袋瘪，不要脑袋空。
8.Better an open enemy than a false friend.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
9.Better good neighbours near than relations far away.
远亲不如近邻。
10.Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
功亏一
11.Between two stools one falls to the ground.
脚踏两头要落空。
12.Beware beginnings.
慎始为上。
13.Big mouthfuls ofter choke.
贪多嚼不烂。
14.Bind the sack before it be full.
做事应适可而止。
15.Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
1、Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
做你想做的梦吧，去你想去的地方吧，成为你想成为的人吧，因为你只有一次生命，一个机会去做所有那些你想做的事。
2、We all have moments of desperation. But if we can face them head on, that’s when we find out just how strong we really are.
我们都有绝望的时候，只有在勇敢面对时，我们才知 道我们有多坚强。
3、If they throw stones at you, don’t throw back, use them to build your own foundation instead.
如果别人朝你扔石头，就不要扔回去了，留着作你建高楼的基石。
4、If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
如果你的快乐与否取决于别人做了什么，我想，你真的有点问题。
5、When there’s no expectation, losing won’t bring hurt, gaining makes you surprised.
不去期望。失去了不会伤心，得到了便是惊喜。
6、Sometimes your plans don’t work out because God has better ones.
有时候，你的计划不奏效，是因为上天有更好的安排。
7、How much truth of heart in one’s life is told in a joke?
一辈子，有多少真心话，是以玩笑的方式说了出去?
8、A relationship should be between two people, not the whole world.
爱情是两个人的事，与旁人无关。
9、You can’t have a better tomorrow if you don’t stop thinking about yesterday.
如果你无法忘掉昨天，就不会有一个更好的明天。
10、Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
今天，给一个陌生人送上你的微笑吧。很可能，这是他一天中见到的唯一的阳光。
11、You cannot improve your past, but you can improve your future. Once time is wasted, life is wasted.
你不能改变你的过去，但你可以让你的未来变得更美好。一旦时间浪费了，生命就浪费了。
12、Knowlegde can change your fate and English can accomplish your future.
知识改变命运，英语成就未来。
13、Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
如果你想要成功，不要去追求成功;尽管做你自己热爱的事情并且相信它，成功自然到来。
14、Jack of all trades and master of none.
门门精通，样样稀松。
15、Judge not from appearances.
人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
16、Justice has long arms.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
17、Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.
近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
18、Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭双雕。
19、Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.
君王发狂，百姓遭殃。
20、Kings have long arms.
普天之下，莫非王土。
21、Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
21、Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。
22、Learn and live.
活着，为了学习。
23、Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
好人越学越好，坏人越学越坏。
24、Learn not and know not.
不学无术。
25、Learn to walk before you run.
先学走，再学跑。
26、Let bygones be bygones.
过去的就让它过去吧。
27、Let sleeping dogs lie.
别惹麻烦。
28、Let the cat out of the bag.
泄漏天机。
29、Lies can never changes fact.
谎言终究是谎言。
30、Lies have short legs.
谎言站不长。
31、Life is but a span.
人生苦短。
32、Life is half spent before we know what it is.
人过半生，方知天命。
33、Life is not all roses.
人生并不是康庄大道。
34、Life without a friend is death.
没有朋友，虽生犹死。
35、Like a rat in a hole.
瓮中之鳖。
36、Like author, like book.
文如其人。
37、Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。
38、Like for like.
一报还一报。
39、Like knows like.
惺惺相惜。
40、Like mother, like daughter.
有其母必有其女。
41、Like teacher, like pupil.
什么样的老师教什么样的学生。
42、Like tree, like fruit.
羊毛出在羊身上。
43、If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
太容易的路，可能根本就不能带你去任何地方。
44、Getting out of bed in winter is one of life’s hardest mission.
冬天，将自己从被窝里掏出来，是人生最难的任务之一了。
45、The future is scary but you can’t just run to the past cause it’s familiar.
未来会让人心生畏惧，但是我们却不能因为习惯了过去，就逃回过去。
46、I love it when I catch you looking at me then you smile and look away.
我喜欢这样的时刻：我抓到你正在看我，你笑了，然后害羞地别过脸去。
47、Having a calm smile to face with being disdained indicates kind of confidence.
被轻蔑的时候能平静的一笑，这是一种自信。
48、Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
成功是，你即使跨过一个又一个失敗，但也沒有失去热情。
49、Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
并不是你面对了，任何事情都能改变。但是，如果你不肯面对，那什么也变不了。
50、A guy who whispers in your ears, saying ” It’s alright, I’m here.” Holds you when you’re sad, and treasures everything about you. That’s the guy I want to give my heart to.
那个人会在耳边轻声说：没事，我在这。在你悲伤时给你依靠，与你相关的，他都珍视。有这样的人，我爱定了。
