It is better to die when life is a disgrace.寧為玉碎，不為瓦全。

　　It is easier to get money than to keep it.掙錢容易攢錢難。

　　It is easy to be wise after the event.事后諸葛亮好當。

　　It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.創業容易守業難。

　　It is hard to please all.眾口難調It is never too old to learn.活到老，學到老。

　　It is no use crying over spilt milk.覆水難收。

　　It is the first step that costs troublesome.萬事開頭難。

　　It is the unforeseen that always happens.天有不測風云，人有旦夕禍福。

　　It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.坐失良機，后悔已遲。

　　It never rains but it pours.不鳴則已，一鳴驚人。

　　It takes three generations to make a gentleman.十年樹木，百年樹人。

　　Jack of all trades and master of none.門門精通，樣樣稀松。

　　Judge not from appearances.人不可貌相，海不可斗量。

　　Justice has long arms.天網恢恢，疏而不漏。

　　Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.近朱者赤近墨黑。

　　Kill two birds with one stone.一箭雙雕。

　　Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it君王發狂，百姓遭殃。

　　Kings have long arms.普天之下，莫非王土。

　　Knowledge is power.知識就是力量。

　　Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.

　　博學使人謙遜，無知使人驕傲。 Learn and live.活著，為了學習。

　　Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.

　　好人越學越好，壞人越學越壞。

　　Learn not and know not.不學無術。Let sleeping dogs lie.別惹麻煩

　　Learn to walk before you run.先學走，再學跑。

　　Let bygones be bygones.過去的就讓它過去吧。

　　Let the cat out of the bag.泄漏天機。Life is but a span.人生苦短。

　　Lies can never changes fact.謊言終究是謊言。

　　Lies have short legs.謊言站不長。

　　Life is half spent before we know what it is.人過半生，方知天命。

　　Life is not all roses.人生并不是康莊大道。

　　Life without a friend is death.沒有朋友，雖生猶死。

　　Like a rat in a hole.甕中之鱉。

　　Like author, like book.文如其人。

　　Like father, like son.有其父必有其子。

　　Like for like.一報還一報。 Like knows like.惺惺相惜。

　　Like mother, like daughter.有其母必有其女。

　　Like teacher, like pupil.什么樣的老師教什么樣的學生。

　　Like tree, like fruit.羊毛出在羊身上。

　　Little things amuse little minds.小人無大志。

　　Look before you leap.摸清情況再行動。

　　Lookers-on see more than players.當局者迷，旁觀者清。

　　Losers are always in the wrong.勝者為王，敗者為寇。

　　Lost time is never found again.歲月既往，一去不回。

　　Love at first sight.一見鐘情。 Love cannot be compelled.愛情不能強求。

　　Love is blind.愛情是盲目的。 Love is full of trouble.愛情充滿煩惱。

　　Love is never without jealousy.沒有妒忌就沒有愛情。

　　Love me, love my dog.愛屋及烏Make hay while the sun shines.良機勿失。

　　Make your enemy your friend.化敵為友。

　　Man is the soul of the universe.人是萬物之靈。

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

　　Many hands make light work.眾人拾柴火焰高。

　　Many heads are better than one.三個臭皮匠，賽過諸葛亮。

　　Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

　　有心栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成蔭。

　　Once bitten, twice shy.一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。

　　One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.

　　一個和尚挑水喝，兩個和尚抬水喝，三個和尚沒水喝。

　　One cannot put back the clock.時鐘不能倒轉。

　　One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.百聞不如一見。

　　One false move may lose the game.一著不慎，滿盤皆輸。

　　One good turn deserves another.行善積德。

　　One hour today is worth two tomorrow.爭分奪秒效率高。

　　One man‘s fault is other man‘s lesson.前車之鑒。

　　One never loses anything by politeness.講禮貌不吃虧。

　　One swallow does not make a summ一燕不成夏。

　　One‘s words reflect one‘s thinking.言為心聲。

　　Out of debt, out of danger.無債一身輕。

　　Out of office, out of danger.無官一身輕。

　　Out of sight, out of mind.眼不見，心為靜。

　　Patience is the best remedy.忍耐是良藥。

　　Penny wise, pound foolish.貪小便宜吃大虧。

　　Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.

　　正大光明者，說到的多，做到的少。

　　Please the eye and plague the heart. 貪圖一時快活，必然留下隱禍。

　　Pleasure comes through toil.苦盡甘來。

　　Pour water into a sieve.竹籃子打水一場空。

　　Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。

　　Praise is not pudding.恭維話不能當飯吃。

　　Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.

　　好人越夸越好，壞人越夸越糟。

　　Prefer loss to unjust gain.寧可吃虧，不貪便宜。

　　Prevention is better than cure.預防勝于治療。

　　Pride goes before, and shame comes after.驕傲使人落后。

　　Promise is debt.一諾千金。

　　Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.諺語是日常經驗的結晶。

　　Measure for measure.針鋒相對。

　　Misfortunes never come alone.禍不單行。

　　Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.患難見真情。

　　Money isn‘t everything.錢不是萬能的。 Murder will out. 紙包不住火。

　　My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.

　　兒子婚前是兒子，女兒終生是女兒。

　　Nature is the true law.天行有常，不為堯存，不為桀亡。

　　Necessity is the mother of invention.需要是發明的動力。

　　Never fish in trouble water.不要混水摸魚。

　　Never judge from appearances.不可以貌取人。 Never say die.永不言敗。

　　Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.亡羊補牢，為時未晚。

　　Once a thief, always a thief.偷盜一次，做賊一世。

　　Pull the chestnut out of fire.火中取栗。

　　Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。

　　Put your shoulder to the wheel.鼎力相助。

　　New wine in old bottles.舊瓶裝新酒。 No cross, no crown.不經歷風雨，怎么見彩虹。

　　No garden without its weeds.沒有不長草的園子。

　　No living man all things can.世上沒有萬事通。

　　No man can do two things at once.一心不可二用。

　　I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.朋友不能阿諛奉承。

　　If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

　　上當一回頭，再多就可恥。

　　If you make yourself an ass, don‘t complain if people ride you.

　　人善被人欺，馬善被人騎。

　　If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.耳朵發燒，有人念叨。

　　If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.腳踏兩條船，必定落空。

　　If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.殺雞取卵。

　　If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

　　If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.要想求知，就得吃苦。

　　Industry is the parent of success.勤奮是成功之母。