- A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
不善始者不善終。 - A bad thing never dies.
遺臭萬年。 - A bad workman always blames his tools.
不會撐船怪河彎。 - A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.
一鳥在手勝過雙鳥在林。 - A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.
吹牛與說謊本是同宗。 - A bully is always a coward.
色厲内荏。 - A burden of one's choice is not felt.
愛挑的擔子不嫌重。 - A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蠟燭照亮别人，卻毀滅了自己。 - A cat has 9 lives.
貓有九條命。 - A cat may look at a king.
人人平等。 - A close mouth catches no flies.
病從口入。 - A constant guest is never welcome.
常客令人厭。 - Actions speak louder than words.
事實勝于雄辯。 - Adversity leads to prosperity.
窮則思變。 - Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
逆境出人才。 - A fair death honors the whole life.
死得其所，流芳百世。 - A faithful friend is hard to find.
知音難覓。 - A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一塹，長一智。 - A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性難移。 - A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患難見真情。 - A friend is easier lost than found.
得朋友難，失朋友易。 - A friend is never known till a man has need.
需要之時方知友。 - A friend without faults will never be found.
沒有十全十美的朋友。 - "After you" is good manners.
“您先請”是禮貌。 - A good beginning is half done.
良好的開端是成功的一半。 - A good beginning makes a good ending.
善始者善終。 - A good book is a good friend.
好書如摯友。 - A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好書，相伴一生。 - A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做虧心事，不怕鬼叫門。 - A good fame is better than a good face.
美名勝過美貌。 - A good husband makes a good wife.
夫善則妻賢。 - A good medicine tastes bitter.
良藥苦口。 - A good wife health is a man's best wealth.
妻賢身體好是男人最大的财富。 - A great talker is a great liar.
說大話者多謊言。 - A hedge between keeps friendship green.
君子之交淡如水。 - A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.
戲谑不能化敵為友，隻能使人失去朋友。 - A leopard cannot change its spots.
積習難改。 - A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
說謊者即使講真話也沒人相信。 - A light heart lives long.
靜以修身。 - A little body often harbors a great soul.
濃縮的都是精品。 - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
一知半解，自欺欺人。 - A little pot is soon hot.
狗肚子盛不得四兩油。 - All are brave when the enemy flies.
敵人逃竄時，人人都成了勇士。 - All good things come to an end.
天下沒有不散的筵席。 - All rivers run into sea.
海納百川。 - All roads lead to Rome.
條條大路通羅馬。 - All that ends well is well.
結果好，就一切都好。 - All that glitters is not gold.
閃光的不一定都是金子。 - All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事總是由難而易。 - All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
隻會用功不玩耍，聰明孩子也變傻。 - A man becomes learned by asking questions.
不恥下問才能有學問。 - A man can do no more than he can.
凡事都應量力而行。 - A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.
一心不能二用。 - A man is known by his friends.
什麼人交什麼朋友。 - A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
光說空話不做事，猶如花園光長刺。 - A man without money is no man at all.
一分錢難倒英雄漢。 - A merry heart goes all the way.
心曠神怡，事事順利。 - A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差之千裡。 - A mother's love never changes.
母愛永恒。 - An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一天一蘋果，不用請醫生。 - A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。 - An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
以眼還眼，以牙還牙。 - An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
一日之計在于晨。 - An old dog cannot learn new tricks.
老狗學不出新把戲。 - An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.
聰明才智，不如運氣。 - An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
預防為主，治療為輔。 - A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滾石不生苔，轉業不聚财。 - As a man sows, so he shall reap.
種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆。 - A single flower does not make a spring.
一花獨放不是春，百花齊放春滿園。 - A snow year, a rich year.
瑞雪兆豐年。 - A sound mind in a sound body.
健全的精神寓于健康的身體。 - A still tongue makes a wise head.
寡言者智。 - A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不補，大洞吃苦。 - A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
身正不怕影子斜。 - A wise head makes a close mouth.
真人不露相，露相非真人。 - A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷馬難追。 - A year's plan starts with spring.
一年之計在于春。 - A young idler, an old beggar.
少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。 - Bad news has wings.
好事不出門，壞事傳千裡。 - Barking dogs seldom bite.
吠犬不咬人。 - Beauty lies in the love's eyes.
情人眼裡出西施。 - Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
聽宜敏捷，言宜緩行。 - Better late than never.
不怕慢，單怕站。 - Better to ask the way than go astray.
問路總比迷路好。 - Between friends all is common.
朋友之間不分彼此。 - Birds of a feather flock together.
物以類聚，人以群分。 - Blood is thicker than water.
血濃于水。 - Blood will have blood.
血債血償。 - Books and friends should be few but good.
讀書如交友，應求少而精。 - Business is business.
公事公辦。 - Business is the salt of life.
事業是人生的第一需要。 - By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
讀書使人充實，交談使人精明。 - Cannot see the wood for the trees.
一葉障目，不見泰山。 - Care and diligence bring luck.
謹慎和勤奮才能抓住機遇。 - Caution is the parent of safety.
小心駛得萬年船。 - Cheats never prosper.
騙人發不了财。 - Children are what the mothers are.
耳濡目染，身教言傳。 - Choose an author as you choose a friend.
擇書如擇友。 - Come what may, heaven won't fall.
做你的吧，天塌不下來。 - Complacency is the enemy of study.
學習的敵人是自己的滿足。 - Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是走向成功的第一步。 - Constant dripping wears away a stone.
水滴石穿，繩鋸木斷。 - Content is better than riches.
知足者常樂。 - Count one's chickens before they are hatched.
蛋未孵先數雛。 - Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
來而不往非禮也。 - Creep before you walk.
循序漸進。 - Cry for the moon.
海底撈月。 - Custom is a second nature.
習慣是後天養成的。 - Custom makes all things easy.
有個好習慣，事事皆不難。 - Diamond cuts diamond.
強中自有強中手。 - Do as the Romans do.
入鄉随俗。 - Do as you would be done by.
己所不欲，勿施于人。 - Doing is better than saying.
與其挂在嘴上，不如落實在行動上。 - Do it now.
機不可失，時不再來。 - Do nothing by halves.
凡事不可半途而廢。 - Don't claim to know what you don't know.
不要不懂裝懂。 - Don't have too many irons in the fire.
不要攬事過多。 - Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
不要小題大做。 - Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
今日事，今日畢。 - Don't put the cart before the horse.
不要本末倒置。 - Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
不要自找麻煩。 - Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班門弄斧。 - Do well and have well.
善有善報。 - Each bird love to hear himself sing.
孤芳自賞。 - Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身體好。 - Easier said than done.
說得容易，做得難。 - Easy come, easy go.
來也匆匆，去也匆匆。 - Eat to live, but not live to eat.
人吃飯是為了活着，但活着不是為了吃飯。 - Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
實磨無聲空磨響，滿瓶不動半瓶搖。 - Envy has no holidays.
忌妒之人無甯日。 - Even Homer sometimes nods.
智者千慮，必有一失。 - Even reckoning makes long friends.
親兄弟，明算賬。 - Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。 - Everybody's business is nobody's business.
人人負責，等于沒人負責。 - Every day is not Sunday.
好景不常在。 - Every dog has his day.
誰都有得意的時候。 - Every door may be shut, but death's door.
人生在世，唯死難逃。 - Every heart has its own sorrow.
各人有各人的苦惱。 - Every little helps a mickle.
聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。 - Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
人不為己，天誅地滅。 - Every man has his faults.
金無足赤，人無完人。 - Every man has his hobbyhorse.
蘿蔔青菜，各有所愛。 - Every man has his weak side.
人人都有弱點。 - Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
自己的命運自己掌握。 - Every minute counts.
分秒必争。 - Every mother's child is handsome.
孩子是自己的好。 - Every potter praises his pot.
王婆賣瓜，自賣自誇。 - Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
東西是新的好，朋友是老的親。 - Example is better then percept.
說一遍，不如做一遍。 - Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
經驗是智慧之父，記憶是智慧之母。 - Experience must be bought.
吃一塹，長一智。 - Fact speak louder than words.
事實勝于雄辯。 - Failure is the mother of success.
失敗是成功之母。 - False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
明槍易躲，暗箭難防。 - Far from eye, far from heart.
眼不見，心不煩。 - Far water does not put out near fire.
遠水救不了近火。 - Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情意淡，樣樣不順眼。 - Fear always springs from ignorance.
恐懼源于無知。 - Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
隔牆有耳。 - Fire and water have no mercy.
水火無情。 - Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
火是一把雙刃劍。 - First come, first served.
先來後到。 - First impressions are half the battle.
初次見面，印象最深。 - First think and then speak.
先想後說。 - Fools grow without watering.
朽木不可雕。 - Fool's haste is no speed.
欲速則不達。 - Fools has fortune.
呆人有呆福。 - Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
愚者不學無術，智者不恥下問。 - Forbidden fruit is sweet.
禁果格外香。 - Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
機遇偏愛善斷之人。 - Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
風水輪流轉。 - Four eyes see more than two.
集思廣益。 - Friends agree best at distance.
朋友之間也會保持距離。 - Friends are thieves of time.
朋友是時間的竊賊。 - Friends must part.
再好的朋友也有分手的時候。 - Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
天才不過是勤奮而已。 - Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
衆口铄金，積毀銷骨。 - God helps those who help themselves.
自助者天助。 - Gold will not buy anything.
黃金并非萬能。 - Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
以德報德是常理，以德報怨大丈夫。 - Good health is over wealth.
健康是最大的财富。 - Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.
良藥苦口利于病。 - Good watch prevents misfortune.
謹慎消災。 - Great barkers are no biters.
好狗不擋道。 - Great hopes make great man.
偉大的抱負造就偉大的人物。 - Great minds think alike.
英雄所見略同。 - Great men have great faults.
英雄犯大錯誤。 - Great men's sons seldom do well.
富不過三代。 - Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
大樹底下好乘涼。 - Great wits have short memories.
貴人多忘事。 - Greedy folks have long arms.
心貪手長。 - Guilty consciences make men cowards.
做賊心虛。 - Habit cures habit.
心病還需心藥醫。 - Handsome is he who does handsomely.
行為漂亮才算美。 - Happiness takes no account of time.
歡樂不覺時光過。 - Happy is he who owes nothing.
要想活得痛快，身上不能背債。 - Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
吸取他人教訓，自己才會走運。 - Harm set, harm get.
害人害己。 - Hasty love, soon cold.
一見鐘情難維久。 - Health is better than wealth.
健康勝過财富。 - Health is happiness.
健康就是幸福。 - Hear all parties.
兼聽則明。 - Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
自己不動，叫天何用。 - He is a fool that forgets himself.
愚者忘乎所以。 - He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
背後說好話，才是真朋友。 - He is a wise man who speaks little.
聰明不是挂在嘴上。 - He is lifeless that is faultless.
隻有死人才不犯錯誤。 - He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
正人先正己。 - He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
自嘲者不會讓人見笑。 - He is wise that is honest.
誠實者最明智。 - He knows most who speaks least.
大智若愚。 - He laughs best who laughs last.
誰笑到最後，誰笑得最好。 - He sets the fox to keep the geese.
引狼入室。 - He that climbs high falls heavily.
爬得越高，摔得越重。 - He that will not work shall not eat.
不勞動者不得食。 - He who does not advance loses ground.
逆水行舟，不進則退。 - He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
經常訴苦，沒人同情。 - He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
想不犯錯誤，就一事無成。 - He who risks nothing gains nothing.
收獲與風險并存。 - History repeats itself.
曆史往往重演。 - Honesty is the best policy.
做人誠信為本。 - Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
抱最好的願望，做最壞的打算。 - I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
朋友不能阿谀奉承。 - If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
上當一回頭，再多就可恥。 - If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.
人善被人欺，馬善被人騎。 - If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.
耳朵發燒，有人念叨。 - If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
腳踏兩條船，必定落空。 - If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
殺雞取卵。 - If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。 - If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
要想求知，就得吃苦。 - Industry is the parent of success.
勤奮是成功之母。 - It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
甯為玉碎，不為瓦全。 - It is easier to get money than to keep it.
掙錢容易攢錢難。 - It is easy to be wise after the event.
事後諸葛亮好當。 - It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
創業容易守業難。 - It is hard to please all.
衆口難調。 - It is never too old to learn.
活到老，學到老。 - It is no use crying over spilt milk.
覆水難收。 - It is the first step that costs troublesome.
萬事開頭難。 - It is the unforeseen that always happens.
天有不測風雲，人有旦夕禍福。 - It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
坐失良機，後悔已遲。 - It never rains but it pours.
不鳴則已，一鳴驚人。 - It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
十年樹木，百年樹人。 - Jack of all trades and master of none.
門門精通，樣樣稀松。 - Judge not from appearances.
人不可貌相，海不可鬥量。 - Justice has long arms.
天網恢恢，疏而不漏。 - Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.
近朱者赤，近墨者黑。 - Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭雙雕。 - Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.
君王發狂，百姓遭殃。 - Kings have long arms.
普天之下，莫非王土。 - Knowledge is power.
知識就是力量。 - Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博學使人謙遜，無知使人驕傲。 - Learn and live.
活着，為了學習。 - Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
好人越學越好，壞人越學越壞。 - Learn not and know not.
不學無術。 - Learn to walk before you run.
先學走，再學跑。 - Let bygones be bygones.
過去的就讓它過去吧。 - Let sleeping dogs lie.
别惹麻煩。 - Let the cat out of the bag.
洩漏天機。 - Lies can never changes fact.
謊言終究是謊言。 - Lies have short legs.
謊言站不長。 - Life is but a span.
人生苦短。 - Life is half spent before we know what it is.
人過半生，方知天命。 - Life is not all roses.
人生并不是康莊大道。 - Life without a friend is death.
沒有朋友，雖生猶死。 - Like a rat in a hole.
甕中之鼈。 - Like author, like book.
文如其人。 - Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。 - Like for like.
一報還一報。 - Like knows like.
惺惺相惜。 - Like mother, like daughter.
有其母必有其女。 - Like teacher, like pupil.
什麼樣的老師教什麼樣的學生。 - Like tree, like fruit.
羊毛出在羊身上。 - Little things amuse little minds.
小人無大志。 - Look before you leap.
摸清情況再行動。 - Lookers-on see more than players.
當局者迷，旁觀者清。 - Losers are always in the wrong.
勝者為王，敗者為寇。 - Lost time is never found again.
歲月既往，一去不回。 - Love at first sight.
一見鐘情。 - Love cannot be compelled.
愛情不能強求。 - Love is blind.
愛情是盲目的。 - Love is full of trouble.
愛情充滿煩惱。 - Love is never without jealousy.
沒有妒忌就沒有愛情。 - Love me, love my dog.
愛屋及烏。 - Make hay while the sun shines.
良機勿失。 - Make your enemy your friend.
化敵為友。 - Man is the soul of the universe.
人是萬物之靈。 - Man proposes, God disposes.
謀事在人，成事在天。 - Many hands make light work.
衆人拾柴火焰高。 - Many heads are better than one.
三個臭皮匠，賽過諸葛亮。 - Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
有心栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成蔭。 - Measure for measure.
針鋒相對。 - Misfortunes never come alone.
禍不單行。 - Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
患難見真情。 - Money isn't everything.
錢不是萬能的。 - Murder will out.
紙包不住火。 - My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.
兒子婚前是兒子，女兒終生是女兒。 - Nature is the true law.
天行有常，不為堯存，不為桀亡。 - Necessity is the mother of invention.
需要是發明的動力。 - Never fish in trouble water.
不要混水摸魚。 - Never judge from appearances.
不可以貌取人。 - Never say die.
永不言敗。 - Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.
亡羊補牢，為時未晚。 - New wine in old bottles.
舊瓶裝新酒。 - No cross, no crown.
不經曆風雨，怎麼見彩虹。 - No garden without its weeds.
沒有不長草的園子。 - No living man all things can.
世上沒有萬事通。 - No man can do two things at once.
一心不可二用。 - No man is born wise or learned.
沒有生而知之者。 - No man is content.
人心不足蛇吞象。 - No man is wise at all times.
聰明一世，糊塗一時。 - None are so blind as those who won't see.
視而不見。 - None are so deaf as those who won't hear.
充耳不聞。 - No news is good news.
沒有消息就是好消息。 - No one can call back yesterday.
昨日不會重現。 - No pains, no gains.
沒有付出就沒有收獲。 - No pleasure without pain.
沒有苦就沒有樂。 - No rose without a thorn.
沒有不帶刺的玫瑰。 - No sweet without sweat.
先苦後甜。 - No smoke without fire.
無風不起浪。 - Nothing brave, nothing have.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。 - Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
眼淚幹得最快。 - Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
世上無難事，隻怕有心人。 - Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上無難事，隻要肯登攀。 - Nothing seek, nothing find.
沒有追求就沒有收獲。 - Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.
外出旅行，語言最要緊。 - Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.
世上唯有貧窮可以不勞而獲。 - Not to advance is to go back.
不進則退。 - Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
不懂世故，幼稚可笑。 - No way is impossible to courage.
勇者無懼。 - Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
軍人以服從命令為天職。 - Observation is the best teacher.
觀察是最好的老師。 - Offense is the best defense.
進攻是最好的防禦。 - Old friends and old wines are best.
陳酒味醇，老友情深。 - Old sin makes new shame.
一失足成千古恨。 - Once a man and twice a child.
一次老，兩次小。 - Once a thief, always a thief.
偷盜一次，做賊一世。 - Once bitten, twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。 - One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.
一個和尚挑水喝，兩個和尚擡水喝，三個和尚沒水喝。 - One cannot put back the clock.
時鐘不能倒轉。 - One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.
百聞不如一見。 - One false move may lose the game.
一着不慎，滿盤皆輸。 - One good turn deserves another.
行善積德。 - One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
争分奪秒效率高。 - One man's fault is other man's lesson.
前車之鑒。 - One never loses anything by politeness.
講禮貌不吃虧。 - One swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。 - One's words reflect one's thinking.
言為心聲。 - Out of debt, out of danger.
無債一身輕。 - Out of office, out of danger.
無官一身輕。 - Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不見，心為靜。 - Patience is the best remedy.
忍耐是良藥。 - Penny wise, pound foolish.
貪小便宜吃大虧。 - Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
正大光明者，說到的多，做到的少。 - Please the eye and plague the heart.
貪圖一時快活，必然留下隐禍。 - Pleasure comes through toil.
苦盡甘來。 - Pour water into a sieve.
竹籃子打水一場空。 - Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。 - Praise is not pudding.
恭維話不能當飯吃。 - Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
好人越誇越好，壞人越誇越糟。 - Prefer loss to unjust gain.
甯可吃虧，不貪便宜。 - Prevention is better than cure.
預防勝于治療。 - Pride goes before, and shame comes after.
驕傲使人落後。 - Promise is debt.
一諾千金。 - Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
諺語是日常經驗的結晶。 - Pull the chestnut out of fire.
火中取栗。 - Put the cart before the horse.
本末倒置。 - Put your shoulder to the wheel.
鼎力相助。 - Reading enriches the mind.
開卷有益。 - Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.
讀書健腦，運動強身。 - Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
要人尊敬，必須自重。 - Rome is not built in a day.
冰凍三尺，非一日之寒。 - Saying is one thing and doing another.
言行不一。 - Seeing is believing.
眼見為實。 - Seek the truth from facts.
實事求是。 - Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.
智者當差，不用交代。 - Set a thief to catch a thief.
以賊捉賊。 - Short accounts make long friends.
好朋友勤算賬。 - Something is better than nothing.
聊勝于無。 - Soon learn, soon forgotten.
學得快，忘得快。 - Soon ripe, soon rotten.
熟得快，爛得快。 - Speech is silver, silence is gold.
能言是銀，沉默是金。 - Still water run deep.
靜水常深。 - Strike the iron while it is hot.
趁熱打鐵。 - Success belongs to the persevering.
堅持就是勝利。 - Take things as they come.
既來之，則安之。 - Talking mends no holes.
空談無補。 - Talk of the devil and he will appear.
說曹操，曹操就到。 - Tall trees catch much wind.
樹大招風。 - Teach others by your example.
躬親示範。 - The best hearts are always the bravest.
無私者無畏。 - The best man stumbles.
偉人也有犯錯時。 - The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.
掩耳盜鈴。 - The danger past and God forgotten.
過河拆橋。 - The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.
黎明前的黑暗。 - The darkest place is under the candlestick.
燭台底下最暗。 - The devil knows many things because he is old.
老馬識途。 - The devil sometimes speaks the truth.
魔鬼有時也會說真話。 - The die is cast.
木已成舟。 - The early bird catches the worm.
早起的鳥兒有蟲吃。 - The end justifies the means.
隻要目的正當，可以不擇手段。 - The end makes all equal.
死亡面前，人人平等。 - The eye is bigger than the belly.
貪多嚼不爛。 - The farthest way about is the nearest way home.
抄近路反而繞遠路。 - The finest diamond must be cut.
玉不琢，不成器。 - The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.
烈火驗真金，艱難磨意志。 - The first step is the only difficulty.
邁出第一步是最艱難的。 - The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.
機關算盡太聰明，反誤了卿卿性命。 - The fox preys farthest from home.
兔子不吃窩邊草。 - The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.
坐井觀天。 - The grass is greener on the other side.
這山望着那山高。 - The greatest talkers are always least doers.
語言的巨人總是行動的矮子。 - The higher up, the greater the fall.
爬得高，摔得慘。 - The leopard cannot change its spots.
本性難移。 - The more noble, the more humble.
人越高尚，越謙虛。 - The more wit, the less courage.
初生牛犢不怕虎。 - The outsider sees the most of the game.
旁觀者清。 - The pen is mightier than the sword.
筆能殺人。 - The pot calls the kettle black.
五十步笑百步。 - There are spots in the sun.
太陽也有黑點。 - There are two sides to every question.
問題皆有兩面。 - There is a skeleton in the cupboard.
家家有本難念的經。 - There is kindness to be found everywhere.
人間處處有溫情。 - There is no general rule without some exception.
任何法規均有例外。 - There is no medicine against death.
沒有長生不老藥。 - There is no place like home.
金窩銀窩不如咱的狗窩。 - There is no royal road to learning.
書山有路勤為徑，學海無涯苦作舟。 - 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.
水能載舟，亦能覆舟。 - The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.
清者自清，濁者自濁。 - The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.
螳螂捕蟬，黃雀在後。 - The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
世界如階梯，有人上有人下。 - The world is but a little place, after all.
海内存知己，天涯若比鄰。 - Think twice before you do.
三思而後行。 - Things at the worst will mend.
否極泰來。 - Time and tide wait for no man.
時不我待。 - Time cures all things.
時間是醫治一切創傷的良藥。 - Time flies.
光陰似箭。 - Time is money.
時間就是金錢。 - Time lost cannot be won again.
時光流逝，不可複得。 - Time past cannot be called back again.
時間不能倒流。 - Time tries all.
路遙知馬力，日久見人心。 - 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.
人非聖賢，孰能無過。 - To know everything is to know nothing.
什麼都知道，一如什麼都不知道。 - To know oneself is true progress.
人貴有自知之明。 - Tomorrow never comes.
我生待明日，萬事成蹉跎。 - Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
過分熟悉會使人互不服氣。 - Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
學問太多催人老。 - Too much liberty spills all.
自由放任，一事無成。 - Too much praise is a burden.
過多誇獎，反成負擔。 - To save time is to lengthen life.
節約時間就是延長生命。 - Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
常在河邊走，哪有不濕鞋。 - Troubles never come singly.
福無雙至，禍不單行。 - Truth never grows old.
真理永存。 - Turn over a new leaf.
洗心革面，改過自新。 - Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
鹬蚌相争，漁翁得利。 - Two heads are better than one.
一個好漢三個幫。 - Two of a trade seldom agree.
同行是冤家。 - Two wrongs do not make a right.
别人錯了，不等于你對了。 - Unity is strength.
團結就是力量。 - Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.
忠言逆耳利于行。 - Until all is over one's ambition never dies.
不到黃河心不死。 - Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
吃小虧占大便宜。 - Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
美德遠遠勝過美貌。 - Walls have ears.
小心隔牆有耳。 - Wash your dirty linen at home.
家醜不可外揚。 - Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
滴水穿石。 - Wealth is nothing without health.
失去健康，錢再多也沒用。 - We know not what is good until we have lost it.
好東西，失去了才明白。 - Well begun is half done.
好的開始，是成功的一半。 - We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
井幹方知水可貴。 - We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
欲求完美無缺的朋友必然成為孤家寡人。 - We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.
自己的好事别去提，别人的恩惠要銘記。 - Wet behind the ears.
乳臭未幹。 - Whatever you do, do with all your might.
不管做什麼，都要一心一意。 - What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
兒時所學，終生難忘。 - What's done cannot be undone.
生米煮成熟飯了。 - What's lost is lost.
失者不可複得。 - What we do willingly is easy.
願者不難。 - When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
入國問禁，入鄉随俗。 - When everybody's somebody then nobody's anybody.
人人都偉大，世間沒豪傑。 - When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.
傷心舊事别重提。 - When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
新仇舊恨，齊上心頭。 - When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
黃鼠狼給雞拜年，沒安好心。 - When wine is in truth, wit is out.
酒後吐真言。 - Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者事竟成。 - Where there is life, there is hope.
留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒。 - Where there is smoke, there is fire.
事出有因。 - While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.
道高一尺，魔高一丈。 - Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.
搬弄口舌者必是小人。 - Whom the gods love die young.
好人不長命。 - Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.
智者嘴在心裡，愚者心在嘴裡。 - Work makes the workman.
勤工出巧匠。 - You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
蠟燭不能兩頭點，精力不可過分耗。 - You cannot eat your cake and have it.
魚與熊掌，不可得兼。 - You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
強扭的瓜不甜。 - You may know by a handful the whole sack.
由一斑可知全貌。 - You never know what you can till you try.
是驢子是馬，拉出來遛遛。
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