Don't gild the lily.
不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚 . W .)
I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Mark Twain , American writer)
只凭一句赞美的话我就可以充实地活上两个月。(美国作家 马克·吐温)
It is no use doing what you like ; you have got to like what you do .
(Winston Churchill , British prime minister)
不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。 (美国首相 丘吉尔. W.)
My philosophy of life is work . (Thomas Alva Edison , American inventor)
我的人生哲学就是工作。 (美国发明家 爱迪生 . T . A .)
When work is a pleasure , life is joy ! When work is duty , life is slavery .(Maxim Gorky , Russian writer )
工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受！工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。
(俄国作家 高尔基. M.)
Work banishes those three great evils : boredom , vice, and poverty.
(Voltaire , French philosopher )
工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊、堕落和贫穷。 (法国哲学家 伏尔基泰)
KNOWLEDGE 知识篇
Activity is the only road to knowledge .
(George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist)
行动是通往知识的唯一道路 。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)
A free man obtains knowledge from many sources 1 besides books .
(Thomas Jefferson , American president)
一个自由的人除了从书本上获取知识外，还可以从许多别的来源获得知识。(
美国总统 杰斐逊 . T.)
A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way .(Adams Franklin , American humorist )
我的大部分知识都是这样获得的'：在寻找某个
(美国幽默作家 富兰克林. A.)
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 .
(Benjamin Franklin , American president )
倾已所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它；向知识投资，收益最佳。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
Imagination is more important than knowledge .(Albert Einstein , American scientist )
想象力比知识更为重要。 (美国科学家 爱因斯坦. A. )
Knowledge is power . (Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
知识就是力量。 (英国哲学家 培根. F.)
The empty vessels make the greatest sound . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist )
满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)
一、关于教育的谚语
1.A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (H.B.Adams, American historian)
教师的影响是永恒的;无法估计他的影响会有多深远。(美国历史学家 亚当斯)
2.And gladly would learn, and gladly teach. (Chaucer, British poet)
勤于学习的人才能乐意施教。(英国诗人 乔叟)
3.Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. (Plato, Ancient Greek phiosopher)
与其不受教育，不知不生，因为无知是不幸的根源。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)
4.Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education:dancing with the feet, with ideas, with works, and ,need I add that one must also be able
to dance with the pen? (Friedrich W.Nietzsche, German philosopher)
所有高尚教育的课程表里都不能没有各种形式的跳舞：用脚跳舞，用思想跳舞，用言语跳舞，不用说，还需用笔跳舞。(德国哲学家 尼采)
5.Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. (Hosea Ballou British cducator)
教育始于母亲膝下，孩童耳听一言一语，均影响其性格的形成。(英国教育家 巴卢)
6.Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave. (John Ruskin, British art critic)
教育不在于使人知其所未知，而在于按其所未行而行。(英国艺术评论家 园斯金)
7.Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Durant, American historian)
教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。(美国历史学家 杜兰特)
8.Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist)
教育是令人羡慕的东西，但是要不时地记住：凡是值得知道的，没有一个是能够教会的。(英国剧作家 王尔得)
9.Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)
教育是以造就人的品质为其目标。(英国哲学家 斯宾塞)
10.Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (George Macaulay Trevelyan British historian)
教育造就了一大批人，他们会读书，但是不会区别什么书值得读。(英国历史学家 特里维廉)
11.Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats, lrish poet)
教育不是注满一桶水，而且点燃一把火。(爱尔兰诗人 叶芝)
12.Education is the chief defence of nations. (Edmund Bruke, British statesman)
教育是国家的主要防御力量。(英国政治家 伯克)
13.Education is the transmission of civilization. (Will Drant, American historian and essayist)
教育传播文明。(美国历史学家、散文家杜兰特)
14.Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. (Brougham, British statesman)
教育使一个民族容易领导，但是难于驱使;容易管理，却不可能奴役。(英国政治家 布罗马汉姆)
15.Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one , more important, which he gives himself. (Edward Gibbon, British historian)
每个人都受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的是来自自己。(英国历史学家 吉朋)
二、关于动物的
1.Bird
(1)Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭双雕;一举两得。
(2)A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。
(3)Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
(4)It's an ill bird that fouls own nest.
家丑不可外扬。
(5)Fine feathers make fine birds.
人要衣装，马要鞍。
(6)A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
听音识鸟，闻言识人。
(7)Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
鸟儿都爱听自己唱。(自我欣赏)
(8)You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
(粗糠)用粗糠捉不住老鸟。(有
(9)Birds in their little nests agree.
同巢之鸟心儿齐。
2.Cat
(1)A cat has nine lives.
猫有九条命;吉人天相。
(2)Cats hide their claws.
知人知面不知心。
(3)All cats are grey in the dark.
黑暗之中猫都是灰色的。(人未出名时看起来都差不多。)
(4)A gloved cat catches no mice.
戴手套的猫，老鼠抓不到。(不愿吃苦的人成不了大事业。)
(5)When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
黄鼠狼和猫结亲，不是好事情。
(6)Who will bwll the cat?
谁去给猫系铃?(谁愿意为大家冒风险?)
(7)The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
帽偷吃奶油的时候总是闭着眼睛。(掩耳盗铃)
(8)There are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter.
杀猫的办法很多。(达到目的的途径很多。)
(9)Care kill a cat.
忧虑愁死猫。
3.Chicken
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
鸡蛋未孵出，先别数小鸡。(不要过早乐观。)
4.Crow
A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.
江山易改，本性难移。
5.Dog
(1)He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad.
欲加之罪，何患无词。
(2)A staff is quickly found to beat a dog with.
欲加之罪，何患无词。
(3)Love me, love my dog.
爱屋及乌。
(4)Too much pudding will choke a dog.
布丁太多噎死狗。
(5)Every dog has his day.
人人皆有得意时。
(6)Barking dogs don't (seldom) bite.
爱叫的狗很少咬人。
(7)Let sleeping dogs lie.
勿惹事生非。
(8)Dead dogs bite not.
死狗不咬人。
(9)All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
狗见了叫的不一定都是贼。(不要以貌取人。)
(10)Every dog is a lion at home.
狗在家门口就成了狮子。
(11)Don't be a dog (lying) in the manger.
莫学狗占马槽不吃草。(不要占着茅坑不拉屎。)
(12)Dog does not eat dog.
同类不相残。
(13)Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
狗再傲慢也会吃脏布丁。
(14)A son never thinks his mother ugly,and a dog never shuns its owner's home however
shabby it is.
儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫
三、关于友谊的英语谚语
Set great store by friendship. 情意重千斤。
Between friends all is common. 朋友之间不分彼此。
Old friends and old wine are best. 陈酒味醇, 老友情深。
The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water. 君子之交淡如水。
A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. 海内存知己, 天涯若比邻。
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate. 人的友谊是无法言喻的。
Friendship is like a plant of slow growth. 友谊像生长着的植物, 是慢慢地建立起来的。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 好书如挚友, 情谊永不渝。
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. 路遥知马力, 日久见人心。
I like a simple friend, who holds my faults like a looking glass before my face.
我喜欢这样的朋友, 他对我的缺点就像照镜子一样直言不讳。
It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world .
世界上没有不犯错误的人. 想交没有错误的朋友, 你就没有朋友。
It is only the greathearted who can be true friends; the mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is. 只有伟大胸怀的.人才是真正的朋友; 平庸和怯懦之辈决不可能了解真正友谊的含义。
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
没有朋友的人不会幸福，不处逆境不能识别朋友。
Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. 远方的朋友能使世界变得非常宽阔; 他们组成了经纬度。
Of our mixed life two quests are given control: food for the body, friendship for the soul. 在复杂的生命中, 有两点要牢记:为生存需要吃饭, 而心灵需要友谊。
The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.
旅行中最愉快的事是交到一个真诚的朋友。
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
能交到真正的朋友是人生中最成功的事。
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them. 对朋友爱得越深, 奉承得就越少。
The smell of coin is often the knell of friendship. 铜臭味浓往往是友谊的不祥之兆。
The true friendship seeks to give, not take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto.
真正的友谊追求的是给予, 而不是索取; 是帮助别人, 而不是被人帮助; 是为人服务, 而不是被人服务。
To prepare a friend, three things are required: to honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities. 维护朋友, 有三件事情要做到：当面要尊重他, 不在场时要表扬他, 苦难时要帮助他。
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice. 选择朋友要像选书那样, 数量要少, 但质量要精。
My friend is not perfect—nor am I—and so we suit each other admirably.
朋友不会十全十美，你自己也一样，双方要互相尊敬。
For a congenial friend a thousand toasts are too few; in a disagreeable conversation one word more is too many. 酒逢知己千杯少，话不投机半句多。
四、关于健康的名言
A light heart lives long .( William Shakespeare , British dramatist )
豁达者长寿。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚。 W.)
Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise .(Benjamin Franklin, American president )
早睡早起会使人健康、富有和聪明。 (美国总统 富兰克林。 B.)
Sloth , like rust , consumes faster than labor wears .(Benjamin Franklin , Americanpresident)
懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。 (美国总统 富兰克林。 B.)
The first wealth is health .( Ralph Waldo Emerson , American thinker )
健康是人生第一财富。 (美国思想家 爱默生。 R. W.)
五、
All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
Failure is the mother of success. ——Thomas Paine
失败乃成功之母。
For man is man and master of his fate.
人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
The unexamined life is not worth living.——Socrates
混混噩噩的生活不值得过。——苏格拉底
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus
只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize
it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M. Nixon
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运。——尼克松
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.——John Ruskin
生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。——罗斯金
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.——George Eliot
没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。——乔治·埃略特
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.——Lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。——林肯
六、关于哲理的谚语
1.Be honest rather clever.
诚实比聪明更要紧。
2.Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.
随遇而安。
3.Be just to all, but trust not all.
要公正对待所有的人，但不要轻信所有的人。
4.Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
眼见的不能全信，耳闻的也不能半信。
5.Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
不轻诺，诺必果。
6.Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
多听少说。
7.Better an empty purse than an empty head.
宁可钱袋瘪，不要脑袋空。
8.Better an open enemy than a false friend.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
9.Better good neighbours near than relations far away.
远亲不如近邻。
10.Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
功亏一
11.Between two stools one falls to the ground.
脚踏两头要落空。
12.Beware beginnings.
慎始为上。
13.Big mouthfuls ofter choke.
贪多嚼不烂。
14.Bind the sack before it be full.
做事应适可而止。
15.Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
1、should always learn from everything; should focus on in order to know more, know all.
应当随时学习，学习一切;应该集中全力，以求知道得更多，知道一切。
2、The ant is the most industrious animal, but it most be scanty of words. —— Franklin
没有任何动物比蚂蚁更勤奋，然而它却最沉默寡言。 ——富兰克林
3、success = hard work + the right way + less empty talk.
成功=艰苦的劳动+正确的方法+少说空话。
4、love the hard science, hard work out of genius.
爱学出勤奋，勤奋出天才。
5、It conquers all.——Virgil
勤劳征服一切。 ——弗吉尔
6、The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. ——Hubbard
为把明天的`工作做好，最好的准备是把今天的工作做好。——哈伯德
7、To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
要从事伟大的工作，一个人必须既非常勤劳又非常空闲。
8、Idle such as vinegar, can soften the spirit of the calcareous; diligent like alcohol, can burn the flame of wisdom.
闲散如酸醋，会软化精神的钙质;勤奋如火酒，能燃烧起智慧的火焰。
9、No opportunity for the lazy, but diligence can make the most common variable opportunity opportunity. ——Martin Luther
良机对于懒惰没有用，但勤劳可以使最平常的机遇变良机。——马丁·路德
10、if the short cut to learning, it also must be diligent.
如果说学习有捷径可走，那也一定是勤奋。
11、Efficiency comes from diligence. In shortage in the play ground transportation into Si, was destroyed by the idler. —— Han Yu
业精于勤荒于嬉，行成于思而毁于惰。 ——韩愈
13、My philosophy of life is work. ——Edison
我的人生哲学就是工作。——爱迪生
14、high-talent people lazy by nature, if, that is, not from efforts to develop his talents, his achievements would not have significant, sometimes, rather it would be better than him at the day low.
天分高的人如果懒惰成性，亦即不自努力以发展他的才能，则其成就也不会很大，有时反会不如那天分比他低的人。
15、The used key is the most bright.
常用的钥匙最光亮。
16、Laziness is a person will be buried alive. —— Taylor
懒惰等于将一个人活埋。 ——泰 勒
17、like a fertile ground for learning, as long as hard work, there will be many of the fruit; if lazy work, when other people jump when the harvest dance, you have a regret.
学习好似一片沃土，只要辛勤耕耘，定会有累累的硕果;如若懒于劳作，当别人跳起丰收之舞时，你已是后悔莫及了。
18、Lazy is a mother, she has a son: robbery, and a daughter: hunger. ——Hugo
懒散是一个母亲，她有一个儿子：抢劫，还有一个女儿：饥饿。——雨果
19、To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge in without delay.
我感激他使我 发现即使是很短的时刻，只要我分秒必争的一头钻进工作，积累起来就成为我需要的特别有用的几个钟头。
20、does not desire to be able to leap a thousand miles, can only hope that day forward.
不渴望能够一跃千里，只希望每天能够前进一步。
