★Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。
★Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。
★Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
忍耐是痛苦的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。
★Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动、明天的保证。
★Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者，事竟成。
★All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。
★Money is a good servant and a bad master.
金钱是善仆，也是恶主。
★No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.
任何一个国家，不管它多么富裕，都浪费不起人力资源。
★Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life.
有所成就是人生唯一的真正乐趣。
★You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。
★If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为哨兵。
★Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.
实力永远意味着责任和危险。
★Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。
★The first wealth is health.
健康是人生第一财富。
★It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。
★Work banishes those three great evils : boredom, vice, and poverty.
工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊、堕落和贫穷。
★Activity is the only road to knowledge.
行动是通往知识的唯一道路。
★If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
倾己所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它；向知识投资，收益最佳。
★Imagination is more important than knowledge.
想象力比知识更为重要。
★The empty vessels make the greatest sound.
满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。
★If you don't learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.
如果你年轻时就没有学会思考，那么就永远学不会思考。
★Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.
天生的才干如同天生的植物一样，需要靠学习来修剪。
★Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
幸福不在于拥有金钱，而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。
★Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds t
o be.
对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。
★The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。
★The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。
★We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样，我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。
★Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
与其不受教育,不如不生,因为无知是不幸的根源。
★Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
普通人只想到如何度过时间，有才能的人设法利用时间。
★The golden age is before us, not behind us.
黄金时代在我们面前而不在我们背后。
★A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
不善始者不善终。
★Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.
智者嘴在心里，愚者心在嘴里。
★Jack of all trades and master of none.
门门精通，样样稀松。
★A bully is always a coward.
色厉内荏。
★No way is impossible to courage.
勇者无惧。
★A close mouth catches no flies.
病从口入。
★A constant guest is never welcome.
常客令人厌。
★Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。
★Adversity makes a man wise.
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.
知音难觅。
★A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑，长一智。
★A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性难移。
★A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。
★A good beginning is half done.
良好的开端是成功的一半。
★Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.
亡羊补牢，为时未晚。
★A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
★One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.
百闻不如一见。
★A hedge between keeps friendship green.
君子之交淡如水。
★A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.
戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。
★A leopard cannot change its spots.
积习难改。
★Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
有心栽花花不开，无心插柳柳成荫。
★A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
一知半解，自欺欺人。
★Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.
读书健脑，运动强身。
★A young idler, an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
★Beauty lies in the love's eyes.
情人眼里出西施。
★Be swift to hear, slow to spe
ak.
听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。
★Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
★Business is the salt of life.
事业是人生的第一需要。
★By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。
★Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。
★Caution is the parent of safety.
小心驶得万年船。
★Constant dripping wears away a stone.
水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
★Content is better than riches.
知足者常乐。
★Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
来而不往非礼也。
★Do as you would be done by.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
★Don't claim to know what you don't know.
不要不懂装懂。
★Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班门弄斧。
★Do well and have well.
善有善报。
★Each bird love to hear himself sing.
孤芳自赏。
★Eat to live, but not live to eat.
人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。
★Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。
★Everybody's business is nobody's business.
人人负责，等于没人负责。
★Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
自己的命运自己掌握。
★Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。
★Example is better than percept.
说一遍，不如做一遍。
★Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
★False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
★Far from eye, far from heart.
眼不见，心不烦。
★Far water does not put out near fire.
远水救不了近火。
★Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
隔墙有耳。
★Fire and water have no mercy.
水火无情。
★Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
风水轮流转。
★God helps those who help themselves.
自助者天助。
★Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
以德报德是常理，以德报怨大丈夫。
★Great hopes make great man.
伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。
★Guilty consciences make men cowards.
做贼心虚。
★Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
自己不动，叫天何用。
★He is lifeless that is faultless.
只有死人才不犯错误。
★He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
正人先正己。
★Honesty is the best policy.
做人诚信为本。
★Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。
★If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
★If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
★It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。
★It is easy to open a shop but hard
to keep it always open.
创业容易守业难。
★It is hard to please all.
众口难调。
★It is the unforeseen that always happens.
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
★It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
坐失良机，后悔已迟。
★It never rains but it pours.
不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。
★We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
我们必须接受有限的失望，但是千万不可失去无限的希望。
★Humility is the foundation of glory.
谦卑是荣誉的基础。
★Goodness blows no trumpet, nor desires to have it blown.
美德不自吹自擂，也不愿被吹捧。
★Education makes a people easy to lead,but difficult to drive;easy to govern,but impossible to enslave.
教育使一个民族易于引导，难于驾御；易于管理，但不能奴役。
★The roots of education is bitter,but the fruit is sweet.
求知道路千辛万苦，知识硕果芬芳香甜。
★A good book is the best of friends,the same today and forever.
好书乃挚友，情谊永不渝。
★Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
书籍是积累智慧的明灯。
★Reading make a full man;conference a ready man;and writing an exact man.
读书使人完美，交谈使人机敏，写作使人严谨。
★If you steal from one author,it's plagiarism;If you steal from many,it's research.
如果你抄袭一个作家，这是剽窃；如果你能博采众家，这是研究。
★Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
音乐是医治心灵创伤的良药。
★All those man have their price.
人人都有自己的价值。
★It is not enough to do good;one must do it the right way.
人不仅要做好事,更要以正确的方式做好事。
★Men are always sincere.They change sincerities,that's all.
人总是真诚的,只是表现形式有所不同。
★Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
只要能等待，心想事会成。
★If at first you don't succeed,try,try again.
初试不成功，努力勿懈怠。
★There is no excellent beauty that has not some strangeness in the proportion.
十全十美的美从来就是不存在的。
★The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.
水能载舟，也能覆舟。
★Lookers-on see most of the game.
旁观者清。
★Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
隐恶败善；原谅坏人即是伤害好人。
★The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
重伤可治，恶名难去。
★Evil communications corrupt good manners.
不良的交往败坏良好的举止。
★No wrong without remedy.
有过皆可补。
★Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
唯利是图者，胸中无美德。
★First think, and then speak.
动口先动脑。
★A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷马难追。
★While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; w
hen it's once spoken, it's another's.
话在嘴里，属于自己；话一出口，人家所有。
★Speech is silver, silence is gold.
言语是银，沉默是金。
★Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
言语能伤人，有时胜刀剑。
★A wise head makes a close mouth.
真人不露相，露相非真人。
★It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently.
说得多是一回事，讲得中肯又是一回事。
★Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall,but bears no fruit.
无益的雄辩犹如高大的柏树，不会结果。
★Many a true word is spoken in jest.
笑语之中吐真言。
★From words to deeds is a great space.
言行之间，大有距离。
★Our own actions are our security, not others' judgments.
我们的行为是自己的保证，并不是旁人的鉴定。
★A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
空有言语而无行动的人，犹如杂草丛生的花园。
★A man is not good or bad for one action.
不能凭一件事判断人的好坏。
★A man that breaks his word, bids others to be false to him.
人不守信，无异于叫旁人对他失信。
★Pride goes before destruction.
骄者必败。
★No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself.
人并不因为他自知很差就是很差。
★It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
用慷慨激昂的言语攻击傲慢并不是谦逊的标志。
★He that is full of himself is very empty.
自满之人腹内空。
★Knavery may serve, but honesty is best.
欺诈可能有用，诚实却是上策。
★Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill pennyworth.
高价买诚实，永远也值得。
★Love asks faith, and faith firmness.
爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。
★Love is the touchstone of virtue.
爱情是美德的试金石。
★Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
没有知识的热心，犹如有火而无光。
★A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart.
做贼心虚。
★The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.
坐井观天。
★Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
相聚爱益切，离别情更深。
★A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
一着不慎，全盘皆输。
★What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
儿时所学，终生难忘。
★A clear conscience is a sure card.
光明磊落，胜券在握。
★A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
只要问心无愧，旁人的指责可以一笑置之。
★A clear fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
宁为清贫，不为浊富。
★A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
夜郎自大。
★A common danger causes common action.
同仇敌忾。
★Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
忠言逆耳。
★A hero is known in the time of misfortune.
时势造英雄。
★A mother's love never changes.
母爱永恒。
★As a man sows, so he shall reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
★A single spark can start a prairie fire.
星星之火，可以燎原。
★Behind bad luck comes good luck.
塞翁失马，焉知非福。
★Call a spade a spade.
直言不讳。
★Come what may, heaven won't fall.
船到桥头自会直。
★Conversation makes one what he is.
言如其人。
★Cut short the nonsense and return one's muttons.
闲话少说，言归正传。
★Cut the coat according to the cloth.
量布裁衣。