英語格言及諺語
英語格言及諺語
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第三部份（）
英文教師：整理
1.Actions speak louder than words.
2.Advice when most needed is least
3.After a storm comes a calm.
4.All good things come to and end.
5.All roads lead to Rome.
6.All that glitters is not gold.
7.All's well that ends well.
8.Art is long, life is short.
9.As you sow, so shall you reap.
10.Bad news travels fast.
11.A bad penny always comes back.
12.A bad shearer never had a good sickle. {A bad workman always blames his
13.The bait hides the hook.
14.Barking dogs seldom bite.
15.Beauty is but skin deep.
16.Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
17.Beggars must not be choosers.
18.The best fish swims near the bottom.
19.Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. {Better be the
head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
20.Better late than never.
21.Between two stools you fall to the ground.
22.A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
23.Birds of a feather flock together.
24.The biter is sometimes bit.
25.Blood is thicker than water.
26. A burnt child dreads the fire.
27.Care killed a cat.
28.A cat may look at a king.
29.Charity begins at
30.The child is father of the man.
31.Comparisons are odious.
32.Constant dripping wears away the
33.A contented mind is a perpetual
34.Death is the great leveler.
35.The devil finds work for idle hands
36.Diamond cut diamond.
37.Do as you would be done by.
38.Do in Rome as the Romans do.
39.Don't change horses in mid-stream.
40.Don't count your chickens before
they are hatched.
41.Do not kick against the pricks.
42.Don't put the cart before the
43.Don't quarrel with your bread and
44.Don't wash your dirty linen in
45.Dog does not cat dog.
46.Easier said than done.
47.Easy come easy go.
48.Empty vessels make the most sound.
49.Even Homer sometimes nods.
50.Everybody's business is nobody’s
51.Every dog has his day.()。
52. Every man has his taste.
53.Extremes meet.
54. Familiarity breed contempt.;
55.A fault confessed is half redressed.
56.First come first served.
57.The fish will soon be caught that
nibbles at every bait.
58.Forewarned is forearmed.
59.A friend in need is a friend indeed.
60.Give knaves an inch and they will
take a yard.
61.God's mill grinds slow but sure.
62.Grasp all, lose all.
63.Handsome is as handsome does.
64.He that touches pitch shall be
65.Heaven helps those who help
themselves.
66.Health is better than wealth.
67.Hide not your light under a bushel.
68.History repeats itself.
69.Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
70.Honesty is the best policy.
71.Idle folk have the least leisure.
72.If you run after two hares, you will
catch neither.
73.In wine there is truth.
74.It is easy to be wise after the
75.It is never too late to mend.
76.It is no use crying over spilt milk.
77.A Jack of all trades is master of
78.Knowledge is power.
79.The last straw breaks the camel's
80.Least said, soonest mended.()。
81.The leopard cannot change his spots.
82.Let sleeping dogs lie.
83.Like father, like son.
84.A little learning is a dangerous
85.A little pot is soon hot.
86.Live and learn.
87.Look before you leap.
88.Lookers-on see most of the game.
89.Love is blind.
90.Love me little. love me long.
91.Make hay while the sun shines.
92.Man proposes. God disposes.
93.Many a little makes a mickle. =Every
little makes a mickle.()。
94.Marry in haste, and repent at
95.Men are not to be measured in inches.
96.Might is right.
97.Money makes the mare go.
98.Much would have more.
99.Murder will out.
100.Necessity is the mother of
invention.
101.Never do things by halves.
102.Never look a gift horse in the
103.No man can serve two masters.
104.No man is content with his lot.
105.No news is good news.
106.No pains, no gains.
107.None so blind as those who won’t
108.Nothing comes of nothing.
109.Nothing venture, nothing have.
110.Once bitten, twice shy.
111.One swallow does not make a summer.
112.Out of debt, out of danger.
113.Out of sight, out of mind.
114.The pot called the kettle black.
115.Practice makes perfect.
116.Prevention is better than cure.
117.The proof of pudding is in the
118.Put the saddle on the right horse.
119.The road to hell is paved with good
intentions.
120.Rome was not built in a day.
121Second thoughts are best.
122.Seeing is believing.
123.Share and share alike.
124.Slow and steady wins the race.
125.A soft answer turned away wrath.
126.Some people cannot see the wood for
the trees.
127.A sound mind in a sound body.
128.Spare the rod and spoil the child.
129.Stil water runs deep.
130.A stitch in time saves nine.
131.Strike while the iron is hot.
132.Take the rough with the smooth.
133.Talk of the devil and he is sure to
134.There are two sides to every
135.There's a black sheep in every
136.There is no rose without a thorn.
137.There is on smoke without fire.
138.Those who live in glass houses
should not throw stones.
139.The tongue is not steel, yet it
140.Too many cooks spoil the broth.
141.Turn a stumbling block into a
stepping stone.
142.Two heads are better than one.
143.Two of a trade can never than one.
144.Virtue is its own reward.
145.Walls have ears.
146.Well begun is half done.
147.What can't be cured must be
148.Whatever a man sow, that shall he
also reap.
149.Where there is a will there is a
150.Words cut more than swords.
151.You cannot burn the candle at both
152.You cannot get blood out of a stone.
153.You cannot sell the cow and drink
the milk.。
154.You cannot teach an old dog new
155.Zeal without knowledge is a runaway
156.When you judge others you condemn
yourself.批評別人，就是責備自己。
157.There is more pleasure in loving than in being loved.愛別人比被別人愛的樂趣多。
158.Cunning is no burden.藝多不壓人。
159.He stands not surely that never slips.從不滑倒的人是站不穩的人。
160.He that loses his honesty has nothing else to lose.丟了誠實，就是丟了一切。
161.He that may not do as he would, must do as he may.不能做想做的事，就該做可做的事。
162.Heaven is at the feet of mothers.慈母的膝下就是天堂。
163.There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. ( ~~~Cicero )
沒有時間不能減輕與緩和的哀傷。
164.Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. ( ~~~Aldous
Huxley )事實並不僅僅因為受到忽略而停止存在。
165.The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ( ~~~Edmund Burke
)權力愈大，愈有濫用的危險。
166.Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth. ( ~~~Pablo Picasso
)藝術是一種使我們能夠實現真實的謊言。
167.Love is forgiving even if you can't forget.愛就是不能忘懷，也要原諒。
168.Love is sharing a hard day's leisure hour before
dinner.愛就是在晚餐前，共享辛勞一天後的片刻閒暇。
169.He has no friend who has many friends. ~~~ by
Aristotle(1)有很多朋友的人，是沒有知己的。(2)廣交者無友。
170.He will not have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. ~~~ by
William Hazlitt
171.He who is not impatient is not in love. ~~~ by Aretino
172.I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool,
but be wise. ~~~ by Montesquieu 我總是發現，要成功於世，就必須大智若愚。（孟德斯鳩）
173.Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient
premises. ~~~ by Samuel Butle人生的藝術是從不充分的前提，引出充分的結論。
174.Love means not ever having to say you're sorry. ~~~ by Erich Segal
(1)愛的意義是永遠不必說你很抱歉。(2)愛是用不着說對不起的。
41.否極泰來。
After the storm comes the calm.
42.你去賞花了嗎？
Have you seen the beautiful blossoms?　
43.謝謝你的合作。
Thank you for your cooperation.
44.什麼事耽擱你了？
What's holding you up?
45.一切都在掌握中。
Everything is under control.
46.該是採取行動的時候了。
It's time to take action.
47.情人眼裡出西施。
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
48.請您美言幾句。
Please put in a good word for me.
49.我會想辦法。
I'll think of something. (or) I'll see what I can do.
50.我不太清楚。
I didn't get a very clear picture of it.
51.你管不了！
It's no concern of yours.（較客氣）。You stay out of
this.（語氣較重）。None of your business.（語氣最重，罵討厭鬼，別管閒事）。
52.只許這麼一次。（下不為例）
This will be the first and last time.
53.金玉其外。
All that glitter is not gold.
54.千載一時。
Once in a blue moon.
55.不合羅輯。
That doesn't make sense.
56.願聞其詳（請道其詳）。
Give me the lowdown.（實情、內幕）
57.囊中物。
It's in the bag.
58.我希望你小心從事。
I hope you know what you are doing.
59.不說也吧！
I'd rather not talk about it.
60.一言難盡。
It's a long story.
61.(1)當今熱門人物；時代人物(2)言而有信之人(3)沉默之人(4)老於世故之人(5)普通老百姓。
(1)a man of the hour(2)a man of his word(3)a man of few
words(4)a man of the world(5)a man on the street
Golden mean
63.己立立人，己達達人。
To live and let live.
64.月裏嫦娥。
Girl in the moon
65.我真不敢相信（我的眼睛、我的耳）。
I can't believe my eyes ( ears ).
66.語無倫次。
Talking through one's hat. ( or ) Talking nuts. ( or )
Talking nonsense.
67.強弩之末。
The end of the rope.
68.人人為自己。
Everyone for himself.
69.人人為我，我為人人。
All for one, one for all.
70.歲月不饒人。歲月不居。
Time and tide wait for no one.
71.寧為玉碎，不為瓦全。
Rather lose honorably than gain basely.
72.混水摸魚。
To fish in troubled waters.
73.不要操之過急。
Easy does it.
74.流鱷魚的眼淚。貓哭耗子。
To shed crocodile tears.
75.桃李不言（好東西不必宣傳）。
Good wine needs no bush.（掛招牌）
76.少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。
A a needy age.
77.坐食山崩。
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty overtakes him.
78.打腫臉充胖子。
To put a false front. ( or ) To create a false impression.
79.隨便你（你相不相信隨你）。
That's your privilege.
80.你懂我的意思吧。（我要開除你??等）
You are getting the message.
D B L Tank
82.我不會喝酒。
I'm not much of a drinker.
83.我戒酒啦。
I'm on the wagon.
84.他能喝酒。他嗜酒如命。
He can hold his liquor. He is an alcoholic.
85.無風不起浪。
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
86.青出于藍。
Jade comes from stone.
87.錢能通神。（有錢能使鬼推磨）= 107
Money talks.
88.你不明白我。
You don't read me.
89.漁翁得利。
Two d the third runs away with it.
90.以德報怨。
To recompense injury with kindness.
91.對牛彈琴。
Cast pearls before swine.
92.作繭自縛。
Make one's bed and lie in it.
93.不要打岔。
Don't change the subject.
94.公平交易。
square deal
95.正大光明。
fair and square
96.集思廣益。
Two heads are always better than one.
97.人多嘴雜。
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
98.杞人憂天。（半途迎接麻煩）
Meet trouble half way.
99.流水不腐。
Running water does not get stale. ( or ) A used key is
always bright.
100.目不見睫。
Your eyes cannot see your lashes. ( or ) The hunchback does
not see his own hump.
101.難兄難弟。
They deserve each other.
102.法網難逃。
You can't get away with murder.
103.談虎變色。
A burnt child dreads the fire.
104.笑裡藏刀。
There are dangers in men's smiles.
105.鶴立雞群。
Head and shoulders above others.
106.左右逢源。
his bread is buttered on both sides.
107.財能通神。
Money makes the mare to go.
108.一勞永逸。
Once and for all.
109.五十步笑百步。
A pot calling the kettle black.
110.不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
N nothing gained.
111.人心不足蛇吞象。
The eye is bigger than the mouth.
112.值得做。走一步，算一步。
It pays. Cross the bridge when you come to it.
113.為什麼？我要他好看。
How comes? I'll give it to him.
114.放明白一點。（做人要聰明一點）
You'd better wise up.
115.記著我的話。要老實點。
Mark my words. Be incurable square.
116.你又來這一套。
There you go again.
117.酒醉飯飽。
square meal
118.禮多人不怪。
Politeness offends no one. ( or ) Courtesy costs nothing.
119.鹿死不擇音（陰）。
A dying deer doesn't choose a shade. ( or ) Beggars are no
120.到目前為止相當好。
So far so good.
121.我自己有分寸。
I know what I'm doing.
122.有時候；常常；很少
O O Once in a blue moon
123.上帝是基於美的必要，上帝就是愛。
God, from a beautiful necessity, is love.
124.能做要人固然是好，做個好人卻更重要。
It is nice to be important but it is more important to be
1.A good book is a great friend.良書仍最好的朋友。
2.A man is known by the books he reads.看一個人所讀的書，就知其人。
3.Books and friends should be few and
good.書與友，貴精不貴多。
4.To read without reflecting is like
eating without digesting.學而不思，猶食而不化。
5.A page digested is better than a
volume hurriedly read.消化一頁書，勝於匆促讀一卷書。
6.By readin by
conversation we polish it.讀書使心智豐富;
交談使心智增美。
7.Reading is to the mind what exercise
is to the body.書有益於心，如運動有益於身體。
8.To open a book brings profit.開卷有益。
9.In books there are women who appear as
jewels.書中自有顏如玉。
10.Everything is deemed inferior to
studying.萬般皆下品，唯有讀書高。
（二）談求學
1.Never be too late to learn.活到老學到老。
2.The more a man learns, the more he
sees his ignorance.學然後知不足。
3.There is no royal road to learning.學問無捷徑。
4.Learning is
to advance is to drop back.學如逆水行舟，不進則退。
5.Learning with
thinking without learning is perilous.學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆。
（三）談健康
1.Health is above welth.健康勝於財富。
2.Prevention is better than cure.預防重於治療。
misfortune issues from it.病從口入，禍從口出。
4.A sound body lies first of all in
health.健全的身體寓於健全的心靈。
5.happiness lies first of all in health.幸福之首要在健康。
6.When there is life, there is hope.留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒。
（四）談勤勞
1.Labor makes us insensible to sorrow.勤勞使人忘憂。
2.Labor itself is a pleasure.工作本身即是一種樂趣。
3.No pains, no gains.不勞則無獲。
4.Industry is the parent of success.勤勞為成功之父。
5.Care and diligence brings luck.小心與勤勞，福必隨至。
6.Plan your year in spring and your date
at dawn.一年之計在於春，一日之計在於晨。
7.The early bird catches the warm.早起的鳥兒有蟲吃。
8.An inch of gold will not buy an inch
of time.寸金難買寸光陰。
9.Early to bed and early to rise makes a
man healthy, wealthy and wise.早起早睡，使人健康，富有，明智。
10.Time and tide wait for no man.歲月不待人。
11.Young a gambler, old a begger.少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。
12.Never do things by halves.凡事不可半途而廢。
13.Well begun is half done.好的開始是成功的一半。
14.Poverty is stranger to industry.勤勞有餘，怠惰多憂。
（五）談節儉
1.Cut your coat according to your cloth.量入為出。
2.Without frugality few can be rich.不儉約，難致富。
3.It is easy to go from economy to
extravagance but not from extravagance to economy.由儉入奢易，由奢入儉難。
4.From saving comes having.儉省是致富之本。
5.Many a little ( pickle ) makes a
mikle.聚少成多（
積沙成塔 ）
（六）談交友
1.A friend in need is a friend indeed.患難見真情。
2.Birds of a feather flock together.物以類聚。
3.A friend is not as soon gotten as
lost.失友易，得友難。
4.Good medicine tastes bitter.良藥苦口。
5.Live and let live.待人寬容如待己。
6.To be severe with oneself and lenient
with others.嚴以律己，寬以待人。
7.He who respects others is constantly
respected by them.敬人者人恆敬之。
8.Pros adversity
tries them.財富結交朋友；患難見友情。
9.A life without a friend is a life
without a sun.人而無友，猶生活中無太陽。
（七）談立志
1.Where there is a will, there is a way.有志者，事竟成。
2.A penny soul never comes to two pence.志小之人不能成大事。
3.Rome was not built in a day.羅馬不是一天造成的。
4.God helps those who help themselves.自助天助。
5.Pure gold does not fear the furnace.真金不怕火鍊。
6.Difficulties are paved with
perseverance.天下無難事，只怕有心人。
7.If you wish to be the best man, you
must suffer the bitterest of the bitter.( No cross, no crown )吃得苦中苦，方為人上人。
8.Great works are performed not by
strength but by perseverance.成大事不在力量而在堅忍。
9.Almighty Heaven is not indifferent to
those whose hearts are earnest.皇天不負苦心人。
10.Continual dropping wears away the
stone.滴水穿石。
11.Great oaks from little acorns grow.萬丈高樓平地起。
12.There is nothing truly valuable which
can be purchased without pains and labor.若非一番寒徹骨，焉得梅花撲鼻香。
13.You can lead a horse to the water,
but you can’t make him drink.匹夫不可奪志也。
14.Wherever you go, you can not succeed
without resolution.志不立，天下無可成之事。
（八）談快樂
1.To help others is the source of
happiness.助人無快樂之本。
a poor heart that never rejoices.憂悒者永不歡樂。
3.Pleasure has a sting in its tail.樂極生悲。
4.It is better to be happy than wise.快樂勝於智慧。
（九）談財富
1.He who is contented is rich.知足即富。
2.Riches have wings.財富不常駐。
3.Riches do not always bring happiness.有錢不一定有福。
4.Money is not everything.金錢不是一切。
5.The more one has, the more one wants.愈富愈貪。
（十）談習慣
1.Habit is second nature.習慣是第二天性。
2.It is easier to prevent bad habits
than to break them.避免惡習易，除去惡習難。
3.The child is the father of the man.江山易改，本性難移。
4.Habit can
forever unconquered.習慣永遠不能征服本性；也永遠難以被征服。
5.Once a cue, forever a custom.習慣成自然。
（十一）談誠實
1.Honesty is the best policy.誠實為上策。
2.We need no grave to bury honesty.誠實永生不滅
3.No legacy is so rich as honesty.誠實為最富的遺產。
（十二）談人生觀
1.Things will happen.天有不測風雲。
2.Blessings
misfortunes never come alone.福無雙至，禍不單行。
3.A wise man changes his mind, a fool
never will.識時務者為俊傑。
4.Every dog has his day.每人都有得意的時候。
5.Every cloud has a silver lining.塞翁失馬，焉知非福。
6.Harm watch, harm catch.害人終害己。
7.One good turn deserves another.善有善報。
8.Evil communication corrupts good
manners.近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
9.One false moves may lose the game.一步走錯，滿盤皆輸。
10.Nothing in the universe is due to
chance.世事無僥倖。
11.Man proposes, God disposes.謀事在人，成事在天。
12.Heaven’s vengeance is slow but sure.天網恢恢，疏而不漏。
13.A fall into a pit, a gain in your
wit.經一事，長一智。
14.Life is compared to a stage.人生如舞台。
15.Misfortune might be a blessing in
disguise. 塞翁失馬，焉知非福。
16.Wise after the even.
不經一事，不長一智。
17.God never shuts one door but he opens
another.天無絕人之路。
（十三）談教育
1.Birth is much, but breeding is more.教養重於門弟。
2.Knowledge is power.知識就是力量。
3.The aim of education is the
development of character.教育的目的在發展人格。
4.What sculpture is to a block of
marble, education is to the soul.教育之於心靈，猶如雕塑之於大理石。
5.Example is better than percept.身教重於言教。
6.Teaching others teaches yourself.教學相長。
（十四）談家庭
1.He knows not what love is that has no
children.養兒方知父母恩。
2.If the family lives in harmony, all
affairs will prosper.家和萬事興。
3.Piety is the foundation of all
virtues.百善孝為先。
4.Be it ever so humble, there is no
place like home.金窩銀窩，不如自己的草窩。
5.East or west, home is best.不論走到東方或西方，家庭仍是最好的地方。
6.A true person is known in the day of
adversity.家貧出孝子，亂世現忠臣。
7.Spare the rod, and spoil the child.玉不琢，不成器。
（十五）論國家政治
1.For the rise or fall of a nation,
every citizen bears his share of responsibility.天下興亡，匹夫有責。
2.Ask not what your country can do for
you, ask what you can do for your country.不要問你的國家能為你做些什麼，而要問你能為你的國家做些什麼。
3.Union is strength.團結就是力量。
4.United we stand, divided we fall.團結則立，分散則敗。
5.Give me liberty, of give me death.不自由毋寧死。
6.When the lips are gone, the teeth are
cold.唇亡而齒寒。
（十六）其他
1.Easier said than done.說時容易做時難。
2.What you would not have done to
yourself never do to others. = Never do to others what you don’t want others to
do to you.己所不欲，勿施於人。
3.Distant water can’t quench a fire near
by.遠水救不了近火。
4.Clever men are sometimes the victims
of their own cleverness.聰明反被聰明誤。
5.Work has a bitter root but sweet
fruit.工作雖苦，其果甜蜜。
6.It is no use crying over spilt milk.覆水難收。
7.A word spoken is past recalling.一言既出，駟馬難追。
8.Honest advice is unpleasant to the
ear.忠言逆耳。
9.It is a wise man that never makes
mistakes.智者千慮，必有一失。
10.No sweet without sweat.苦盡甘來。
11.A hungry man is an angry man.衣食足然後知禮節。
12.In every profession there is some one
who excels all the rest.行行出狀元。
13.Pride goes before a fall.驕者必敗。
14.You can’t have your cake and eat it
too.魚與熊掌不可兼得。
15.Within the four seas all men are
brothers.四海之內皆兄弟也。
16.Too much is as bad as too little.過猶不及。
17.Take care of the pence, and the
pounds will take care of themselves.小事注意，大事必成。
18.Two’s company, three is none.兩個和尚挑水喝，三個和尚沒水吃。
19.Rest breeds rust.荒棄則生銹。
20.A great estate is not gotten a few
hours.冰凍三尺，非一日之寒。
21.They live through thick and thin.他們同甘共苦地度日。
22.Facts speak louder than eloquence.事實勝於雄辯。
23.Care killed the cat.憂慮傷身。
24.Out of sight, out of mind.離久情疏（
眼不見為淨 ）
25.Two of a trade never agree.同行相忌。
26.Do wrong once and you will never hear
the end of it.一失足成千古恨。