到别人家中去拜访，要像冬季的白天那样短，免得被人嫌弃和追赶。
visit should be short,like a winters day,lest you're too trouble some hasten away.
轻不过钱包，重不过心。
Light purse,heave heart.
他去了，什么都没有落下，就是忘了和债主说再见。
He's gone,and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors.
越是爱，越要揍。
Love well,whip well.
语言的巨人，行动的矮子。
Great talkers,little doers.
多年相识无情谊，有了情谊却无权，有权但又缺心眼，有了心眼却无效，有效了却无利可图，有利可图但无美德，终究无用。
Relation without friendship,friendship without power,power without will,without effect,effect without profit,&profit without virtue, are not worth a falto.
吃饭是为了 活着，活着却不是为了吃饭。
Eat to live,and not live to eat.
伟人的恩赐并非飞来的财产。
The favour of the great is no inferitance.
烈火才能检验金子，金子才能检验女人，女人才能检验男人。
The proof of gold is fire,the proof of woman,gold;the proof of man,a woman.
多注意安去，少一些风险。
Distrust &caution are the parents of security.
舌头动得快，麻烦来的多。
Tongue double,brings trouble.
酒中想出的办法，水上作出的决定。
Take counsel in wine,but resolve after wards in water.
对一个好妻子不负责任，就是随手扔弃上帝的礼物。
A good wife lost is god's gift lost.
笨蛋的心在口中，智者的口在心上。
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise is in his heart.
人心难测善恶如西瓜难辨生熟。
Men & melon are hard to know.
天才在自己的王国，犹如金子在山中藏着。
A fine genius in his own country,is like gold in the mine.
寒冬之雪使万物繁荣。
Snowy winter,a plentiful harvest.
天真者无邪。
Innocence is its own defence.
时间吞噬了一切，从前的诗人说，时代变了，现代的人吞噬了时间。没事，过了节她就清醒了，与以前一样。
Time eateth all things,could old poets say; The times are changed,our times drink all away.Never mind it, she'll be sober after the holidays.
想过得好，懂得放弃是第一要义。
Would you live with ease,do what you ought, and not what you please.
足底不稳胜过舌头打滑。
Better slip with foot than tougue.
采好看的玫瑰会遇刺，娶好看的老婆易惹事。
You cannot pluck roses without fear of horns.Nor enjor afair wife without danger of horns.
不正义，勇无力。
Without justice,courage is weak.
吃不了苦中苦，作不了人上人。
No man was glorious,who was nor laborrious.
隐瞒过错劳神伤心，改正过错轻而易举。
What pains our justice takes his faults to hide,
With half that pains sure he might cureem quite.
成功者戒骄。
In success be moderate.
勤者无难事，懒惰事事难。
All things are easy to industry,all things difficult to sloth.
骑在马上要紧贴马背，驾驭别人则要给他自由。
If you ride a horse,sit close and tight; If you ride a man, sit easy and light.
奉献欢乐者得到欢乐。
Who pleasure gives,shall joy receive.
有没有爱情的婚姻，就有没有婚姻的爱情。
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without mardage.
不愚蠢，不精明，但要作个明白人。
Be neither silly,nor cunning, but wise.
节省时什么都是便宜的，浪费时什么都是昂贵的。
Allthings are cheap to the saving,dear to the wasteful.
空讲道理，不如谈谈利益。
Would you persuade,speak of interest,not of reason.
祸福相依朝夕难料。
Happy's the woing,that's not long a doing.
不看缺点看优点。
Don't value a man for the quality he is of, but for the qualities he possesses.
是挚友的留住他，是敌人的争取他。
Do good to the friend to keep him, to your enemy to gain him.
好心思使人快活，坏心眼让人不安。
A good man ia seldom uneasy,an ill one never easie.
教你的孩子学会沉默，也就是教他怎么开口说话。
Teach your child to hold his tongue, he'll learn fast enough to speak.
不懂服从，难以施令。
He that can not obay,can not commond.
魅力毫无用处，糊涂难以求得。
As charms are nonsence,nonsence is a charm.
肿痛之处容易磨破，骄矜之人容易树敌。
As sore places meet most rubs,proud folks meet most affronts.
不是他左右财富，而是财富左右了他。
He does not possess wealth,it possesses him.
专等上苍恩赐，就要常饿肚子。
He that wangt upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
无知者一不小心成了先知，智者一不小心成了愚人。
He that knows nothing of it,may by changce be a prophet;while the wisest that is may happen to miss.
不进步，则退步。
Look before,or you'll find yourself behind.
有些人审时度势，有些人闭门造车。
Some are weatherwise,some are otherwise.
提问题要提得深入，答问题要答得简洁。
Weighty questions ask for deliberate answers.
选择朋友和放弃朋友一样要慎重考虑。
Be slow in chusing a friend,slower in changing.
谦虚受人尊敬。
Humility makes grest men twice honourable.
谎言站不住脚跟，真理却稳步向前。
A lie stands on leg,thuth on.
时下忍气吞声，得志便又猖狂。
It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
机遇是值得争夺的东西。
Opportunity is the great bawd.
身体是事业的本钱。
Early to bed and early to rise,makes a man healthy,wealthy and wise.
谦卑对领导迫不得已，对同事实属礼貌，对下级无比美妙。
To be humble to superiors is duty,to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
太阳在不求回报地照着。
The sun never repents of the good he does,nor does he demand a recompence.
人在人群中，干吗要生他人气？
Are you angry that others disappiont you? Remember you cannot depend upon youself.
农夫并不一定粗俗，但粗俗者一定卑鄙。
He is no clown that drives the plow,but he that do the clowmish things.
不再希望中生活，就在屁声中死去。
He that live upon hope,dies farting.
不熟悉的就不要去做。
Do not do that which you would not have known.
未来难测。
This easy to see,hard to forsee.
谨慎的人的嘴，把公事变成隐私。
In a discreet man's mouth, a publick thing is private.
崇拜是因为无知。
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
不看别人信件，不偷他人钱财，不听他人秘密。
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
耐心成就一切。
He that can have patience,can have what he will.
上帝帮助行动之人。
God helps them that help themselves.
以柔克刚。
Gifts burst rocks.
出卖信誉的人财友两空。
He that sells upon trust,loses mangy friends, and always wants money.
理智便是力量。
Force shites upon reason's back.
话多误事。
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
知道的不全说，见到的不乱说，就能生活得很舒心。
He that would live in peace and at ease.
Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
一个伟大的人，从来都是胸怀大志。
The master piece of man,is to live to the purpose.
通向荣耀的 捷径－－努力争取，做到问心无愧。
The nearest way to come at glory,is to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
不被自己弄晕，胜过才高八斗。
He that can compose himself,is wiser than he that composes books.
吃一堑长一智。
After crosses and losses men grow humbler&wiser.
做的好胜过说得好。
Well done is better than well said.
千金易得，知己难求。
No better relation than a prudent & faithful friend.
假如你想拥有时间，就不要等待时间。
If you have time don't wait for time.
世上最伟大的问题莫过于人生在世，能做什么好事？
The noblest question in the world is what good may I do in it?
没有比善良更受人欢迎的了。
Nothing so popular as goodness.
只有自己才能欺骗自己。
Who has deceived you so oft as yourself?
没有什么比自己制造的痛苦更能使人痛苦的事了。
Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
太快乐使人痛苦，太自由使人受奴。
Nothing brings more pain than toomuch pleasure;nothing more bondage than too much libeny(or libertinism).
多读书，但不能乱读书。
Read much,but not many books.
写文章要引经据典，说话却要通俗易懂。
Write with the learned,pronounce with the vulgar.
与人分享快乐，就会永远快乐。
Fly plaesures, and they'll follow you.
想具备高尚的品德，不仅要具备它的风采，也要具备它的气质。
Hast thou virtue?acqulre also the graces & beaunes of vidue.
假如你聪明、有学识，就再增加智慧和谦逊吧。
If you hast wit & learning,add to it wisdom and modesty.
假如你想声名永存，要么写出值得一读的书，要么做出值得一写的事。
If you wou'd not before gotten,
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
or do things worth the writing.
财富和权力难得，却无法与美德＆自由相比。
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
让缺点在你面前消失。
Let the vices die before there.
不可轻易迷信前人，当实事求是，弃糟粕而取精华。
The eancients tell us what is best;but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
把握不了一分钟，就会浪费一小时。
Since thou are not sure of a minute,throw not away an hour.
做了错事，就得听气话。
If you do what you should not, you must hear what you would not.
阅读使人充实，思考使人深沉，谈话使人智慧。
Reading makes a full man,meditation a profound man,discourse a cear man.
好话不怕多说几次。
If any man flatters me,I'll flatter him again;thought he were my best friend.
素质差的人不知道怎么承认错误，也不知道怎么负责任。
None but the well bred man knows how to confess a fault,or a knowlege himself in an error.
发现别人的长处，看见自己的短处。
Search others for their virtues, theyselves for they vices.
相信自己，才不会被自己出卖。
Trust myself,and another shall not betray thee.
玩笑不能使敌人变成朋友，却会使朋友变成敌人。
You can not joke an enemy in a friend;but you may'st a friend into an enemy.
知足者常乐。
Blessed is he that expects nothing for he shall never be disapionted
让不满成为你的秘密吧。
Let the discontents be secrets.
良心不存，必有报应。
If thou injurest conscience,it will have its revenge on thee.
钱财不张扬，秘密不乱说，才华不显露。
Proclaim not all the knowest,all the owest, all the hast,nor all the canst.
创造荣誉靠自己。
Let out fathers and grandfathers be valued for their goodness,ourselve for our own.
勤劳者自有福气，无须上天赐予。
Industry need not wish.
罪恶不是因为被制止才有害，而是因为它有害才被制止。同样的道理，责任不是因为被要求才有好处，而是因为它有好处才被要求。
Sin is not hunful because it is foridden,hut it is forbidden because it's hurtful.Noris a duty beneficial because it is commanded, but it is commanded, because it's beneficial.
一方有难，八方支援。
To bear other peoples afflictions,every one has cotlrage enoltgh,and to spare.
空口袋是不能站直的。
An empty bag can not stand up right.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
An open foe may prove a curse; but a pretended friend is worse.
他人助我，没齿不忘，我助他人，即刻忘记。
When be friended,remember it; when you be friend,forget it.
如想清闲，就该好好利用时间。
Employ your time well, if you meanest to gain leisure.
永远不奉承，永远不贬损。
Neither praise nor dispraise,till seven christmasses be over.
拜访频繁遭人厌。
Visit your aunt,but not every day;and call at your brother,but not every night.
事业成功后仍需明智和谦虚，人生如海沉浮不定，谁能说清；傲慢的人一旦跌入低谷，落魄不堪也无人理睬。
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, the greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise;but insolent people that fall in disgrace, are wretched and nobody pities their case.
让所有人知道你，但不要让人把你看透；水浅被脚踏过，心浅遭人欺负。
Let all men know you, but no man know you throughly,men freely ford that see the shallows.
承诺容易信守难。
It is easy to frame a good bold resolution; but hard is the task that concerns execution.
想干什么，就努力去干什么。
What you would seem to be,be really.
真正的朋友是不用拍马屁的。
The same man can not be both friend and flatterer.
怕你，也必恨你。
Those who are fear'd are hated.
傲气与财富成反比。
As prilde increases,fortune declines.
童心永存，岁月不老。
Old young and old long.
你可以比一个人聪明，却不可能比所有人聪明。
One man may be more cunning than another,but not more cunning than everybody else.
热爱生活吗？那么就不要浪费时间，因为时间乃生活的根本。
Do you love life? then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
每个人都需要通情达理，却没有几个人具备，但所有人都觉得自己已经具备。
Good sence is a thing all need,few have , and none think they want.
责备使人难过，是因为它说了真话。
The sting of a reproach,is the truth of it.
过分炫耀自己的聪明是最大的愚蠢。
The most exquisite foolly is made of wisdom spun too fine.
勇敢冲锋，审慎阻栏。
Courage would fight,but discretion won't let him.
事实比雄辩有说服力。
A good example is the best sermon.
听不进劝告的人无药可救。
He that won't be coullsell'd,can't be help'd.
明智的人不探听秘密 ，诚实的人不暴露秘密 。
It is wise not to seek a secret,and honest not to reveal it.
与傻瓜生活就知道吃喝，与智者生活才知道探索。
Life with fools consisls in drinking;with the wise man living's thinking.
你对别人好，其实是对自己最好。
When you're good to others,you are best to yourself.
满桶不动半桶响。
Half wits talk much but say little.
聪明人从他人的 教训中学习，愚蠢的人从自己的苦难中获益。
Wise men learn by others harms;fools by their own.
话说的如何巧妙，都必须靠行动表达。
Words may shew a man's wit,but actions his meaning.
问心无愧，身无所畏。
Keep conscience clear,then never fear.
冷静之人驾驭人心，狂热之徒被人驾驭。
He is a governor that governs his passions,and he a servant that serves them.
制服敌手，先得自己刚直不阿。
Wouldst you confound your enemy,be good yourself.
得意露缺陷，逆境见品质。
Prosperrity discovers vice,adversity virtue.
我们可以提出忠告，但也必须行动。
We may gave advice,but we cannot give conduct.
向朋友认错是你对他的最大信任，当面指出他的错误则是更大的信任。
It is great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his.
严厉意味着仁慈，反之亦然。
Severity is often clemency;clemency severity.
成功使很多人毁灭。
Success has ruin'd many a man.
从天而降的权力容易使人傲慢，从天而降的自由容易使人莽撞。好的行为需要慢慢培养。
Sudden power is apt to be insolent,sudden liberty saucy; that behaves best which has grown gradually.
失意时，没有人了解；得意时，不了解自己。
When out of favour,none know thee;when in ,thou dost not know thvself.
平时不烧香，临时抱佛脚。
Danger is sauce for prayers.
最寒酸的是想高攀。
Nothing humbler than ambition,when it is about to climb.
抛弃那些不切实际的念头，免得被它们托得筋疲力尽。
Cut the wings of your hens and hopes,lest they lead you a weary dance after them.
什么都干不了，是因为什么都想去干。
Where sense is wanting,every thing is wangting.
不提前准备难免穷老终身，早上的太阳，也迟早要落下。
For age and want save while you may;no morning sun lasts a whole day.
少说点话，多做点事。
Speak little, do much.
想想三个问题：你从何处来，将到何处去，你会遇到什么人。
Think of three things, where you came,where you are going,and whom you must account.
乐于兼听者明智。不易冲动者有力。知足常乐者富有。
Who is wise?He that learns from every.
Who is powerful? He that governshis passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
无知并不可怕，可怕的是不学习。
Being ignorant is not so much a shame,as being unwilling to learn.
人生之沉浮无常，正如月亮之阴晴圆缺。
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
尊重所有人，服务很多人，认识几个人，与一个人成为朋友，不与任何人为敌。
Be crvil to all,serviceable to many;farmliar with few;friend to one;enemy to none.
诚实的人拒绝来路不明的钱财＆名誉。
An honest man will receive neither money nor praise,that is not his due.
道不同，不足与谋。
Saying and doing ,have quarreled and parted.
认识自己的错误，改正自己的缺点。
Tell me my faults,and mend your own.
没有什么比眼泪消失的更快。
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
掩饰错误比改正错误难。
Men take more pains to mask than mend.
一个今天等于两个明天。
One today is worth two tomrrows.
自做主张多坏事，多听意见为明智。
Singularity in the right,hath ruined many,happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
谦虚背后是优秀的品德。
Great modesty often hides great ment.
时间不可拖延。
You may delay,but time will not.
美德不一定使人漂亮，但恶行却一定使人丑陋。
Virtue may not always make a face handsome,but vice will certainly make it ugly. |
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