【第1句】：想象有時比現實生動得多。Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality.

【第2句】：聞其歌知其鳥，聽其言知其人。A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.

【第3句】：前車之覆，后車之鑒。The mirror of misfortune is the mirror of misfortune.

【第4句】：適者生存。Survival of the fittest.

【第5句】：喜形于色。Show your face.

【第6句】：愛鄰如愛己。Love thy neighbour as thyself.

【第7句】：吃小虧占大便宜。Small losses make great gains.

【第8句】：不要信賴朋友的贊揚，也不要仇敵的輕蔑放在心上。Trust not the praise of a friend, nor the contempt of an enemy.

【第9句】：我們都要像樹葉一樣枯萎。We all wither as a leaf.

【第10句】：不是人人都懂的語言不是好語言。A language not known to all is not good language.

【第11句】：活著正常的人死也正常。He that lives well dies well.

【第12句】：為人只顧自己事，就無時間關心人。He that thinks only of his own business has no time to think of others.

【第13句】：人人都講話，無人去聽它。When all men speak, no man hears.

【第14句】：先想后說。First think and then speak.

【第15句】：人急造反，狗急跳墻。(事急老嫗跑。)A cat may jump at a straw. It's urgent that the old woman run.

【第16句】：本末倒置。Put the cart before the horse.

【第17句】：在世無朋友，死后無證人。Life without a friend is death without a witness.

【第18句】：婦女在受危害時比男子機智。Women in mischief are wiser than men.

【第19句】：好書開卷引人入勝，閉卷使人得益。That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

【第20句】：少管閑事。Mind your own business.

【第21句】：我成功是因為有決心，從不猶豫。I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated.

【第22句】：船到橋頭自會直。Cross the bridge till you come to it.

【第23句】：如要忠告向老人請教。Ask an old man for advice.

【第24句】：丸藥不苦不會加糖衣。The pill is not bitter without sugar coating.

【第25句】：敵人禮，藏危險。Gifts from enemies are dangerous.

【第26句】：大希望造就大人物。Great hopes make great man.

【第27句】：禁果格外香。Forbidden fruit is sweet.

【第28句】：時間就是金錢。Time is money.

【第29句】：一次不成例。Once is not the custom.

【第30句】：小過彼此不相諒，兩人友誼難長久。Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

【第31句】：不可緣木求魚。Don't cry for fish.

【第32句】：戇人有戇福。Fools have fortune.

【第33句】：主人必須會服務。The host must be able to serve.

【第34句】：音樂是醫治心靈創傷的妙藥。Music is the medicine of the broken heart.

【第35句】：天有不測風云，人有旦夕禍福。Every dog has his day.

【第36句】：狐貍雖會跑，小雞有翅膀。Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings.

【第37句】：沒有什么財富像知識那樣保險，因為它偷不去，搶不走。There is no wealth so sure as knowledge, for it cannot be stolen or taken away.

【第38句】：要抓住時機。Seize the moment.

【第39句】：人生必須永遠前進，才不愧為有理智的人。Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression.

【第40句】：愚者總好無事生非。Fools will make a fuss.

【第41句】：集思廣益。Put your heads together.

【第42句】：永不生病的人往往一病致命。He that never falls ill often dies of a disease.

【第43句】：重要的并不在于一個人怎樣死，而是在于他怎樣生。What matters is not how a man dies, but how he lives.

【第44句】：健康勝于財富。Health is better than wealth.

【第45句】：一心不可二用。A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.

【第46句】：只有真理才是真美。Truth alone is beautiful.

【第47句】：若要得經驗，必須化代價。Experience must be bought.

【第48句】：人到黃泉，貧富同眠。In death rich and poor sleep together.

【第49句】：人要衣裝。Clothes make the man.

【第50句】：牛失其尾，方知其貴。An ox is known by its tail.

【第51句】：想一次做完什么事，結果一件也做不完。Trying to do everything at once ends up doing nothing at all.

【第52句】：吾生有涯，而知無涯。Art is long, life is short.

【第53句】：三思而行，再思可也。Think twice before you act.

【第54句】：身正不怕影子斜。A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.

【第55句】：愛情就是愛的報答。Love is the reward of love.

【第56句】：言多必失。He that talks much loses much.

【第57句】：不能以己度人。One cannot measure another's corn by one's own bushel.

【第58句】：搬弄是非者，惡劣甚于賊。A tattler is worse than a thief.

【第59句】：沒有脫離險境，不要過早高興。Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

【第60句】：粗話無害，甘言無益。Bad words will do no harm, but good words will do no good.

【第61句】：寧可穿破衣，不可蒙羞恥。It is better to be clothed in rags than to be ashamed.

【第62句】：青年人向前看，老年人向后看。Young men look forward, old men backward.

【第63句】：夫妻之間難免有差異。There are differences between husband and wife.

【第64句】：愛情入，友誼出。Love in, friendship out.

【第65句】：勤奮近乎成功。Diligence is next to success.

【第66句】：不能靠藥物度日子。You can't live on medicine.

【第67句】：若照習慣辦，萬事皆不難。Custom makes all things easy.

【第68句】：好狗不擋道。A good dog is not in the way.

【第69句】：蟻多可殺馬。Many ants kill a horse.

【第70句】：樂意學的東西決不會忘記。What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

【第71句】：偉人也會鑄大錯。Great men have great faults.

【第72句】：靜水常深。Still water run deep.

【第73句】：事過境遷。Things have changed.

【第74句】：明鏡照容顏，醇酒見人心。As the glass looks, so the wine looks.

【第75句】：青年時代是人生的播種期。Youth is life's seed-time.

【第76句】：悲喜互繼，哀樂相續。Joys and sorrows continue, and joys and sorrows continue.

【第77句】：醫生年老的好，律師年輕的俏。An old physician, and a young lawyer.

【第78句】：一個父親能扶養十個孩子，十個孩子卻不能贍養一個父親。One father can support ten children, but ten children cannot support one father.

【第79句】：良馬不失蹄。A good horse never stumbles.

【第80句】：自作自受。What goes around comes around.

【第81句】：務請心情常歡暢，只因無人喜憂傷。Be always in a good mood, because no one likes to be sad.

【第82句】：囊中無錢心事重。A light purse makes a heavy heart.

【第83句】：無風不起浪。No smoke without fire.

【第84句】：物以類聚。Birds of a feather flock together.

【第85句】：世界上只有兩種力量∶刀和筆；而其結果，后者總是戰勝前者。There are only two powers in the world: the knife and the pen; As a result, the latter always beats the former.

【第86句】：友誼是愛加上諒解。Friendship is love with understanding.

【第87句】：忠言無害。Good counsel never hurt.

【第88句】：選擇妻子也象策畫戰爭，一時之錯將成終身之恨。Choosing a wife is like planning a war; a fault in one moment becomes a lifelong regret.

【第89句】：光說空話不做事，猶如花園光長刺。A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

【第90句】：事情本無好與壞，全在自己怎么想。There is no such thing as good or bad, it's all in your own mind.

【第91句】：有生必有死。As we live we must die.

【第92句】：愛情是不能買賣的。Love is neither bought nor sold.

【第93句】：飯后百步走，活到九十九。After dinner walk a mile.

【第94句】：失之毫厘，謬以千里。A miss is as good as a mile.

【第95句】：負債的人謊話多。"People in debt lie more."

【第96句】：說得好不如做得好。Better to do well than to say well.

【第97句】：擇友如藏書，皆宜少而精。Books and friends should be few but good.

【第98句】：一個人引以為恥的事情越多，就越可尊敬。The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

【第99句】：傳播新聞有三種方法∶電報、電話和告訴女人。There are three ways of spreading news: telegraph, telephone, and tel-a-woman.