水滴天天滴不停，石头再坚也磨损。Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.

弱者等待机会，强者创造机会。 Weak men wait for opportunity, but the strong men make it.

我们都要像树叶一样枯萎。 We all do fade as a leaf.

财富并不属于拥有的人，而是属于享用的人。 Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.

财富能使人崇拜。 Wealth makes worship.

财富可能是一样好东西，因为它意味着权力，安逸和自由。 Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, leisure, and liberty.

人生非为己。 We are not born for ourselves.

我们生活中可以没有兄弟，但不能没有朋友。 We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.

生活可无友，邻居不能无。 We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours.

我们先养成习惯，然后习惯又左右我们。 We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

如果不创造财富，就没有权力享用财富；同样地，如果不能创造幸福，就没有权利享受幸福。 We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

我们希望长大，但怕年老；就是，愿意生，而害怕死。 We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.

有的时候不爱惜，失了以后空叹息。 We know not what is good until we have lost it.

学习不在校，而在生活中。 We learn not at school, but in life.

良好开端，功成一半。 Well begun is half done.

衣食足，知荣辱。 Well fed, well bred.

我们必须千百次地反复说明，坚韧不拔是取得胜利的唯一道路。 We must repeat a thousand and one times that perseverance is the only road to success.

井枯方知水可贵。 We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

We never know the value of water till the well is dry.

我们生命只一次，好自为之一次足矣。 We only live once,, but if we work it right once is enough.

一进坟墓，大家一样。 We shall lie all alike in our graves.

欲找朋友无缺点，永远不会有朋友。 We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

施惠莫记，受恩莫忘。 We should never remember the benefit we have offered nor forget the favour received.

我们要推动工作，不要让工作推动我们。 We should push our work, the work should not push us.

我们应在人降生时流泪，而不该在人死亡时哭泣。 We should weep for men at their birth and not at their death.

一厢情愿。 We soon believe what we desire.

对别人如何对自己也应如何。不分彼此，一样对待。 What a sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

事已无法可救，只得耐心忍受。 What cannot be cured must be endured.

 月亮岂怕狗来吠。 What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her?

 狗嘴里吐不出象牙。 What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?

种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。 Whatever a man sow, that shall he also reap.

无论我做什么事，我都尽力而为之。 Whatever I do, I will do in my power.

天下无难事。 Whatever man has done man may do.

不论做什么事要尽力去搞；事情做得不彻底，就不能算好。 Whatever you do, do with your might; Things done by halves are never done right.

 我今天要做些什么好事？我今天做了些什么好事？ What good shall I do this day? What good have I done today?

我的成就是由于坚忍地思索。 What I have done is due to patient thought.

生于骨中者不会出肉外。 What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.

若要人不知，除非己莫为。 What is done by night appears by day.

木已成舟。 What is done cannot be undone.

一件事情三个人知道就人人知道。 What is known to three is known to everybody.

小时学会的事情到老不会忘记。 What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the grave.

What is learnt in the cradle is carried to the grave.

不智的事是危险的。 What is not wisdom is danger.

此人乌云盖顶，彼人艳阳满天。一个人的云彩是另一个人的阳光。What is one man's cloud is another man's sunshine.

适用于甲的，也适用于乙。 What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

教育之于心灵，犹如雕刻之于大理石。 What is sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

世界上没有什么事情，较之虚度年华，一事无成，更使人痛心。 What is there sadder under the sun than a day that is gone and nothing done.

 财富如带忧郁来，有了财富有何用？ What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy?

事既值得做，就把事做好。 What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

没有目的，人生就黯淡无光。 What makes life dreary is the want of motive.

该怎么样的就怎么样。 What must be must be.

生就的本性，总会暴露的。 What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.

若要人不知，除非己莫为。 What's done by night appears by day.

无可挽回。 覆水难收。 What's done can't be undone.

小时学过的，至死不忘记。 What's learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb.

流水落花春去也。失去的就是失去。 What's lost is lost.

有什么比不知足更为痛苦？ What's more miserable than discontent?

醉汉口里露真言。 What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.

己所欲，施于人。 Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.

眼不见，心不烦。 What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over.

目不见，心不乱。 What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.

心直口快。 What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.

我们不知道的东西多得不可胜数。 What we are ignorant of is immense.

世上无难事，只要肯登攀。 What we do willingly is easy.

乐意学的东西决不会忘记。 What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

失之东隅，收之桑榆。 What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.

别人身上你不喜欢的东西，自己身上的也要注意改正。 What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.

失之东隅，收之桑榆。 What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

 What you lose on the swings you get back on the roundabouts.

青年时经常做的事，老年时却能记得起。 What youth is used to, age remembers.

落井下石。 When a dog is drowning everyone offers him drink.

朋友的要求不要拖。 When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.

贪杯丧智。 When ale is in wit is out.

When drink is in wit is out.

When wine is in wit is out.

人人都讲话，无人去听它。 When all men speak no man hears.

怒火中烧瞎心眼，真理在前看不见。 When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears.

怒时数十再说话，大怒数百方开言。 When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

机不可失，时不再来。 When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you.

蠢人做件羞愧事，总说义不容辞。 When stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.