生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。 Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.

马未偷走前，厩门先锁上。比喻不要亡羊补牢，悔之晚矣。 Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.

树大招风。 Loftiest trees most dread the thunder.

长久不在的人，很快被忘怀。 Long absent, soon forgotten.

事情耽搁太久就没有人会感谢了。 Long tarrying takes all the thanks away.

对万事要乐观。 Look at the world through rose-coloured glasses.

三思而行。 Look before you leap; see before you go.

旁观者清。 Lookers-on see more than players.

旁观者清。 Lookers-on see most of the games.

海底捞月。  Look for a needle in a bundle of hay.

Look for a needle in a bottle of hay.

狗嘴里吐不出象牙。  Look not for musk in dog's kennel.

不要浪费时间，做些有益的事情，停止一切不必要的行动。  Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.

失败者总是错的。  Losers are always in the wrong.

 损失使人更谨慎。  Losses make us more cautious.

时间一去不再来，我们常说时间充足，实际总是不够。  Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough.

失去的财富可由勤奋而恢复，失去的知识可由学习而恢复，失去的健康可由节制或药物而恢复，但失去的时间却一去永不复返。  Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.

要爱一切人，相信少数人，不要负于任何人。  Love all, trust a few, be false to none.

爱情和买卖可以培养口才。  Love and business teach eloquence.

爱情和咳嗽是不能掩饰的。  Love and cough cannot be hid.

爱和穷难隐瞒。  Love and poverty are hard to hide.

爱情要求忠诚，而忠诚要求坚贞。  Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.

爱产生爱。。  Love begets love.

 爱情不强求。  Love cannot be forced.

爱情可使茅屋成为金碧辉煌的宫殿。  Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.

情人眼里出西施。  Love comes by looking.

爱情做许多事，金钱做任何事。  Love does much, money does everything.

Love does much, money does more.

爱情不怕危险。  Love fears no danger.

磨折越多，爱情越深。  Love grows with obstacles.

爱情是一种甜蜜的折磨。  Love is a sweet torment.

爱情是甜蜜的虐政，情人心甘情愿地受它的折磨。  Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.

爱情是盲目的。爱情使人对缺点视而不见。情人眼里出西施。  Love is blind.

爱情多烦恼。  Love is full of trouble.

爱情像月亮，不盈即亏。  Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases.

爱情不能买卖。  Love is neither bought nor sold.

爱情莫不忌妒。  Love is never without jealousy.

爱情在市场上是找不到的。  Love is not to be found in the market.

爱情始甜而终苦。  Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.

爱产生爱情。  Love is the mother of love.

爱情就是爱的报答。  Love is the reward of love.

爱情是美德的试金石。  Love is the touchstone of virtue.

爱情只能用爱情来报答。  Love is the true price of love.

爱情是没理智的。  Love is without reason.

 春闺锁不住。  Love laughs at locksmith.

爱情无贵贱，贫负皆有之。  Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.

爱情大处著眼，忌妒吹毛求疵。  Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope.

恋爱不分贵贱。  Love makes all equal.

爱情把一切冷酷的心变得温柔。  Love makes all hard hearts gentle.

爱情使服从变为易事。  Love makes obedience easy.

爱情使人适合任何工作。  Love makes one fit for any work.

爱情使世界运转。  Love makes the world go round.

不求情意浓，但愿情义长。  Love me little and love me long.

爱屋及乌。  Love me, love my dog.

爱情无需教导。  Love needs no teaching.

切莫一见钟情。  Love not at the first look.

情侣靠爱情生活，正像云雀靠韭葱生活一样。  Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks.

维持爱情，不用强力。  Love rules his kingdom without a word.

爱的统治不用刀枪，捆绑不用绳索。  Love rules without a sword and bind without a cord.

爱情不应是单方面的。  Love should not be all on one side.

追求而得的爱情固然美好，但不经追求而得的爱情更为美好。  Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

爱邻如爱己。  Love your neighbors as yourself.

爱情可以意会，无需言传。  Love understands love; it needs no talk.

爱情会自找出路。  Love will find out the way.

爱你的左邻右舍，但不要拆去你们之间的藩篱。  Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge.

说谎是上断头台的第一步。  Lying is the first step to the gallows.

负债的人谎话多。  Lying rides upon debt's back.

少女应温良谦恭，敏于听而慎于言。Maidens should be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.

Maidens must be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak

尽力而为，尽力节约，尽力施舍。Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

别太急。慢慢地赶。Make haste slowly.

趁热打铁。Make hay while the sun shines.

白天当白天，夜晚当夜晚，生活过得好，愉快而多欢。Make the night night, and the day day, and you will have a pleasant time of it.

要化敌为友。Make your enemy your friend.

使你有益于人。Make yourself necessary to someone.

只有人，生下时啼哭，活着时抱怨，去世时失望。Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

人之大敌，自己而已。 Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

人是使用工具的动物。 Man is a tool-using animal.

人生谁无死。 Man is mortal.

并非时势造人，而是人造时势。 Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creature of man.

人之幸福，自己创造。 Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

礼貌造就人。 Manners make the man.

谋事在天，成事在人。 Man proposes, God disposes.

神机妙算，常常失算。 Man's best plans often miscarry.

男人最可贵的是有一个贤淑的妻子。 Man's best possession is a loving wife.

人定胜天。 Man will conquer nature.

虚有其表。 Many a fine dish has nothing on it.

有许多花儿生来就开著没有人欣赏。 Many a flower is born to blush unseen.

虎父生犬子。 Many a good cow has a bad calf.

好父亲偏生不肖子。 Many a good father has but a bad son.

积少成多。 Many a little makes a mickle.

Many a pickle makes a mickle.

蚁多可杀马。千里之堤，溃于蚁穴。 Many ants kill the horse.

戏言寓真理。 Many a true word is spoken in jest.

多吃多病。 Many dishes, many diseases.

积少成多。 Many drops makes a shower.

有许多伟人出身卑微。 Many great men have arisen from humble beginnings.

众擎易举。人多力量大。 Many hands are better than one.

Many hands make a burden lighter.