第一步是最关键的一步。
2、You never know your luck.
命运好坏不由己。
3、Sow nothing, reap nothing.
春不播，秋不收。
4、The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.
精神的财富是唯一的财富。
5、You can't judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相。
6、Clothes do not make the man.
人不在衣装。
7、To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
既当演说家，又做实干家。
8、Variety is the spice of life.
变化是生活的调味品。
9、Bad times make a good man.
艰难困苦出能人。
10、There is no royal road to learning.
求知无坦途。
11、Doubt is the key to knowledge.
怀疑是知识的钥匙。
12、Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事，必先利其器。
13、Wasting time is robbing oneself.
浪费时间就是掠夺自己。
14、Nurture passes nature.
教养胜过天性。
15、There is no garden without its weeds.
没有不长杂草的花园。
16、A man is only as good as what he loves.
一个人要用他所爱的东西有多好来衡量。
17、Wealth is the test of a man's character.
财富是对一个人品格的试金石。
18、The best hearts are always the bravest.
心灵最高尚的人，也总是最勇敢的人。
19、Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue.
礼貌和美貌是分不开的伴侣。
20、Plain living and high thinking.
生活要朴素，情操要高尚。
21、Energy and persistence conquer all things.——Benjamin Franklin
能量加毅力可以征服一切。——富兰克林
22、Nothing seek, nothing find.
无所求则无所获。
23、Cease to struggle and you cease to live.——Thomas Carlyle
生命不止，奋斗不息。——卡莱尔
24、A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step.
千里之行，始于足下。
25、Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.——Swetchine
只有强者才懂得斗争;弱者甚至失败都不够资格，而是生来就是被征服的。——斯威特切尼
26、The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them.——Bernara Shaw
在这个世界上取得成就的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到机会， 他们便自己创造机会。——萧伯纳
27、A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate.——Thomas Addison
强者能同命运的风暴抗争。——爱迪生
28、He who seize the right moment, is the right man.——Goethe
谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成。——歌德
29、Victory won't come to me unless I go to it.——M.Moore
胜利是不会向我们走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。——穆尔
30、Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.
人往高处走，水往低处流。
1、The heart is seen in wine.
酒后吐真言。
2、Virtue never grows old.
美德常青。
3、The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
世界上对勇气的最大考验是忍受失败而不丧失信心。
4、Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.
人生是美好的，但要学会如何享用美好的生活。
5、Behind the mountains there are people to be found.
天外有天，山外有山。
6、Variety is the spice of life.
变化是生活的调味品。
7、A common danger causes common action.
同舟共济。
8、Doubt is the key to knowledge.
怀疑是知识的钥匙。
9、Good wine needs no bush.
酒香不怕巷子深。
10、A contented mind is a continual / perpetual feast.
知足常乐。
11、Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
12、It is never too late to mend.
亡羊补牢，犹未为晚。
13、The world is like a mirror: Frown at itand it frowns at you; smile, and it smiles too.
世界犹如一面镜子：朝它皱眉它就朝你皱眉，朝它微笑它也吵你微笑。
14、The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.
伟人之所以伟大，是因为他立志要成为伟大的人。
15、Wine in, truth out.
酒后吐真言。
16、Mind acts upon mind.
心有灵犀一点通。
17、Suffering is the most powerful teacher of life.
苦难是人生最伟大的老师。
18、All rivers run into the sea.
殊途同归。
19、Wasting time is robbing oneself.
浪费时间就是掠夺自己。
20、What is done cannot be undone.
覆水难收。
21、The best hearts are always the bravest.
心灵最高尚的人，也总是最勇敢的人。
22、Nurture passes nature.
教养胜过天性。
23、The car will find its way round the hill when it gets there.
车到山前必有路。
24、There is no garden without its weeds.
没有不长杂草的花园。
25、One who has seen the ocean thinks nothing of mere rivers.
曾经沧海难为水。
26、Life is but a hard and tortuous journey.
人生即是一段艰难曲折的旅程，人生无坦途。
27、An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一日一个苹果，身体健康不求医。
28、Faith can move mountains.
信念能移山。(精诚所至，金石为开。)
29、The worse luck now, the better another time.
风水轮流转。
30、Custom makes all things easy.
习惯成自然。
31、One never lose anything by politeness.
讲礼貌不吃亏。
32、East or west, home is the best.
东奔西跑，还是家里好。
33、Sense comes with age.
老马识途。
34、The shortest way to do many things is to only one thing at a time.
做许多事情的捷径就是一次只做一件事。
35、A man is only as good as what he loves.
一个人要用他所爱的东西有多好来衡量。
36、Bad times make a good man.
艰难困苦出能人。
37、Do not teach fish to swim.
不要班门弄斧。
38、Haste makes waste.
欲速则不达。
39、A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑，长一智。
40、One is never too old to learn.
活到老，学到老。
41、Experience is the best teacher.
实践出真知。
42、Sow nothing, reap nothing.
春不播，秋不收。
43、One swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。(一花独放不是春。)
44、A young idler, an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
45、He that promises too much means nothing.
轻诺者寡信。
46、Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.
生活若无波折险阻，就会过于平淡无奇。
47、Poverty is stranger to industry.
勤劳之人不受穷。
48、Death comes to all, but great achievements raise a monument which shall endure until the sun grows old.
死亡无人能免，但非凡的成就会树起一座纪念碑，它将一直立到太阳冷却之时。
49、A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.
海内存知己，天涯若比邻。
50、So many men, so many minds.
人心各不同。
51、A guest should suit the convenience of the host.
客随主便。
52、Use legs and have legs.
经常用腿，健步如飞。
53、Do not have too many irons in the fire.
贪多嚼不烂。
54、Just has long arms.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
55、Desire has no rest.
人的欲望无止境。
56、Do not change horses in mid-stream.
别在河流中间换马。
57、Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不见，心不烦。
58、Walls have ears.
隔墙有耳。
59、Strike while the iron is hot.
趁热打铁。
60、Never judge by appearances.
切莫以貌取人。
61、A letter from home is a priceless treasure.
家书抵万金。
62、Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
生活是绘画，不是做算术。
63、Do one thing at a time, and do well.
一次只做一件事，做到最好!
64、Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
65、Never hit a man when he is down.
不要落井下石。
66、Business is business.
公事公办。
67、There is no royal road to learning.
求知无坦途。
68、All time is no time when it is past.
机不可失，时不再来。
69、You can't judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相。
70、Life is a span.
人生如朝露。
71、Merry meet, merry part.
好聚好散。
72、Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient premises.
生活是一种艺术，要在不充足的前提下得出充足的结论。
73、Home is where the heart is.
心在哪里，哪里就是家。
74、No fire without smoke.
无风不起浪。
75、Meet plot with plot.
将计就计。
76、There's only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that's your own self.
这个宇宙中只有一个角落你肯定可以改进，那就是你自己。
77、A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
人最好的朋友是自己的十个手指。
78、Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事，必先利其器。
79、Keep something for a rainy day.
未雨绸缪。
80、Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
人生是一幅大画布，你应该努力绘出绚丽多彩的画面。
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。
