吃一堑，长一智。
2、A guest should suit the convenience of the host.
客随主便。
3、A letter from home is a priceless treasure.
家书抵万金。
4、All rivers run into the sea.
殊途同归。
5、All time is no time when it is past.
机不可失，时不再来。
6、To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
既当演说家，又做实干家。
7、Variety is the spice of life.
变化是生活的调味品。
8、Bad times make a good man.
艰难困苦出能人。
9、There is no royal road to learning.
求知无坦途。
10、Doubt is the key to knowledge.
怀疑是知识的钥匙。
11、The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
世界上对勇气的最大考验是忍受失败而不丧失信心。
12、A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
人最好的朋友是自己的十个手指。
13、Only they who fulfill their duties in everyday matters will fulfill them on great occasions.
只有在日常生活中尽责的人才会在重大时刻尽责。
14、The shortest way to do many things is to only one thing at a time.
做许多事情的捷径就是一次只做一件事。
15、Sow nothing, reap nothing.
春不播，秋不收。
16、Life is real, life is earnest.
人生真实，人生诚挚。
17、Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.
生活若无波折险阻，就会过于平淡无奇。
18、Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient premises.
生活是一种艺术，要在不充足的前提下得出充足的结论。
19、Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.
人生是美好的，但要学会如何享用美好的生活。
20、Life is but a hard and tortuous journey.
人生即是一段艰难曲折的旅程，人生无坦途。
21、Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you.
人生像一匹马，你不驾驭它，它便驾驭你。
22、Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
人生是一幅大画布，你应该努力绘出绚丽多彩的画面。
23、Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
人生如一首乐曲，要用乐感，感情和直觉去谱写，不能只按乐律行事。
24、Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
生活是绘画，不是做算术。
25、The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.
精神的财富是唯一的财富。
26、You can't judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相。
27、Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事，必先利其器。
28、Wasting time is robbing oneself.
浪费时间就是掠夺自己。
29、Nurture passes nature.
教养胜过天性。
30、There is no garden without its weeds.
没有不长杂草的花园。
31、A man is only as good as what he loves.
一个人要用他所爱的东西有多好来衡量。
32、Wealth is the test of a man's character.
财富是对一个人品格的试金石。
33、The best hearts are always the bravest.
心灵最高尚的人，也总是最勇敢的人。
34、One never lose anything by politeness.
讲礼貌不吃亏。
35、There's only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that's your own self.
这个宇宙中只有一个角落你肯定可以改进，那就是你自己。
36、The world is like a mirror: Frown at itand it frowns at you; smile, and it smiles too.
世界犹如一面镜子：朝它皱眉它就朝你皱眉，朝它微笑它也吵你微笑。
37、Death comes to all, but great achievements raise a monument which shall endure until the sun grows old.
死亡无人能免，但非凡的成就会树起一座纪念碑，它将一直立到太阳冷却之时。
38、The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.
伟人之所以伟大，是因为他立志要成为伟大的人。
39、Suffering is the most powerful teacher of life.
苦难是人生最伟大的老师。
40、A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.
海内存知己，天涯若比邻。
41、A common danger causes common action.
同舟共济。
42、A contented mind is a continual / perpetual feast.
知足常乐。
43、An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一日一个苹果，身体健康不求医。
44、As heroes think, so thought Bruce.
英雄所见略同。
45、A young idler, an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
46、Behind the mountains there are people to be found.
天外有天，山外有山。
47、Bad luck often brings good luck.
塞翁失马，安知非福。
48、Business is business.
公事公办。
49、Clumsy birds have to start flying early.
笨鸟先飞。
50、Do one thing at a time, and do well.
一次只做一件事，做到最好!
51、Custom makes all things easy.
习惯成自然。
52、He would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
千里之行始于足下。
53、Home is where the heart is.
心在哪里，哪里就是家。
54、If you are not inside a house, you don not know about its leaking.
不在屋里，不知漏雨。(亲身经历才有体会。)
55、It is never too late to mend.
亡羊补牢，犹未为晚。
56、It six of one and half a dozen of the other.
彼此彼此。
57、Desire has no rest.
人的欲望无止境。
58、Difficult the first time, easy the second.
一回生，二回熟。
59、Do not change horses in mid-stream.
别在河流中间换马。
60、Do not have too many irons in the fire.
贪多嚼不烂。
61、Do not teach fish to swim.
不要班门弄斧。
62、East or west, home is the best.
东奔西跑，还是家里好。
63、Experience is the best teacher.
实践出真知。
64、Faith can move mountains.
精诚所至，金石为开。
65、First impressions are half the battle.
先入为主。
66、Good wine needs no bush.
酒香不怕巷子深。
67、Haste makes waste.
欲速则不达。
68、He that promises too much means nothing.
轻诺者寡信。
69、He who has an art has everywhere a part.
一招鲜，吃遍天。
70、Just has long arms.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
71、Keep something for a rainy day.
未雨绸缪。
72、Life is a span.
人生如朝露。
73、Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
74、Meet plot with plot.
将计就计。
75、Merry meet, merry part.
好聚好散。
76、Mind acts upon mind.
心有灵犀一点通。
77、Never hit a man when he is down.
不要落井下石。
78、Never judge by appearances.
切莫以貌取人。
79、No fire without smoke.
无风不起浪。
80、Nurture passes nature.
教养胜过天性。
81、One is never too old to learn.
活到老，学到老。
82、One swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。(一花独放不是春。)
83、One who has seen the ocean thinks nothing of mere rivers.
曾经沧海难为水。
84、Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不见，心不烦。
85、Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
86、Poverty is stranger to industry.
勤劳之人不受穷。
87、Rome was not built in a day.
罗马不是一日建成的。(伟业非一日之功。)
88、Sense comes with age.
老马识途。
89、Use legs and have legs.
经常用腿，健步如飞。
90、Virtue never grows old.
美德常青。
91、Walls have ears.
隔墙有耳。
92、What is done cannot be undone.
覆水难收。
93、Wine in, truth out.
酒后吐真言。
94、So many men, so many minds.
人心各不同。
95、Some thing is learned every time a book is opened.
开卷有益。
96、Strike while the iron is hot.
趁热打铁。
97、The car will find its way round the hill when it gets there.
车到山前必有路。
98、The heart is seen in wine.
酒后吐真言。
99、The worse luck now, the better another time.
风水轮流转。
100、Time tries all things.
时间检验一切。
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。
2、Misfortunes never come alone/single.(祸不单行。)
3、Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.(遭祸容易脱祸难。)
4、Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.(不经灾难不知福。)
5、To an optimist every change is a change for the better.(对于乐观者总是越变越好。)
6、From small beginnings comes great things. (伟大始于渺小。)
7、Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. (智力投资绝不会白花。)
8、Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.(脑中有知识，胜过手中有金钱。)
9、The voice of one man is the voice of no one. (一个人的声音没有力量。)
10、A great ship asks for deep waters.(大船要走深水。)
11、While there is life, there is hope.(有生命便有希望/留得青山在，哪怕没柴烧)
12、Two heads are better than one. (一人不及二人智;三个臭皮匠，胜个过一个诸葛亮。)
13、Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own.(聪明人从别人的错误中学得教训;笨人则自己付出代价。他山之石可以攻玉。)
14、Good company on the road is the shortest cut. (行路有良伴就是捷径。)
15、It takes all sorts to make a world. (世界是由各种不同的人所组成的。)
16、If a thing is worth doing it is worth worth doing well.(如果事情值得做，就值得好好做。)
17、Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.(无热情成就不了伟业。)
18、Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.(没有恒心只有力量是完不成伟业。)
19、It is never too late to learn. (活到老，学到老。)
20、It is never too late to mend. (亡羊补牢，犹时未晚。)
21、Constant dropping wears the stone. (滴水穿石。)
22、Experience is the mother of wisdom.(经验是智慧之母。)
23、Every man is his own worst enemy.(一个人最大的敌人就是他自 己。)
24、Saying and doing are two different things. (说和做是迥然不同的两回事。)
25、Actions speak louder than words. (行动比语言更响亮。)
26、Truth never fears investigation.(事实从来不怕调查。)
27、A good medicine tasks bitter.(良药苦口。)
28、Great minds think alike. (英雄所见略同。)
29、Storms make trees take deeper roots.(风暴使树木深深扎根。)
30、Live and let live. (自己生活也让别人生活。)
31、Better late than never. (迟做总比不做好;晚来总比不来强。)
32、A bold attempt is half success.(勇敢的尝试是成功的一半。)
33、All things are difficult before they are easy. (凡事必先难后易。)
34、What we acquire without sweat we give away without regret.(得之不费力，弃之不可惜。)
35、Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.(只要有一颗意志坚强的心，没事不成。)
