1.大丈夫欲治其国者，先齐其家；欲齐其家者，先修其身；欲修其身者，先正其心；欲正其心者，先诚其意；心正而后身修，身修而后家齐，家齐而后国治，国治而后天下平。《大学》
2.君子喻于义，小人喻于利。 孔丘
3.志不强者智不达。 墨翟
4.穷且益坚，不坠青云之志。 王勃
5.不戚戚于贫贱，不汲汲于富贵。 陶渊明
6.如烟往事俱忘却，心底无私天地宽。 陶铸
7.古之立大事者，不惟有超世之才，亦必有坚忍不拔之志。 苏轼
8.勿以恶小而为之，勿以善小而不为。惟贤惟德，能服于人。 刘备
9.人生的价值，并不是用时间，而是用深度去衡量的。 列夫托尔斯泰
10.悲观的人，先被自己打败，然后才被生活打败；乐观的人，先战胜自己，然后才战胜生活。汪国真
11.夫君子之行，静以修身，俭以养德，非淡泊无以明志，非宁静无以致远。 诸葛老师
12.匹夫见辱，拔剑而起，挺身而斗，此不足为勇也。天下有大勇者，猝然临之而不惊，无故加之而不怒。苏轼
13.见贤思齐焉，见不贤而内省。 《论语》
众所周知，谚语乃是一种语言的精华，寓意深刻，表达隽永。在考研写作中如能适当地引用一些谚语，可以为文章增辉添彩。一些同学在平时的学习中积累了一些谚语，但在写作时不知道该如何将它们恰当地引用到文章中去，本文拟根据近年来《纽约时报》引用谚语的情况，总结出英语中常见的引用谚语的地道表达法，供同学们写作时模仿使用。
谚语在英语中叫proverb，引用时经常会在其前面酌情加上old, Chinese, English, Russian之类的形容词;动词一般用go, say, state, has it, put it等，在这些动词后面用逗号或冒号皆可。谚语可加双引号(这时谚语的第一个字母要大写)，也可不加双引号(这时第一个字母一般不大写)。引用谚语的表达方式常见的有如下十种：
1) A proverb goes / says, ---
2) As a / the proverb goes / says, ---
A Yiddish proverb goes, “Better to lose with a wise man than win with a fool.”
有一句依地语谚语说得好，“宁输智者，不赢傻子。”(August 14, 2000)
A proverb says, “Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
有一句谚语说，“命不该死有药救。”(July 16, 2009)
As a Chinese proverb goes, “Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.”
正如中国的一句谚语所说，“不要缘木求鱼。”(April 24, 2000)
As the old Chinese proverb says, “If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get her cubs.”
正如中国的一句谚语所说，“不入虎穴，焉得虎子。”(November 15, 1993)
3) As a / the proverb has it / puts it,
4) A proverb has it that ---
As a Spanish proverb has it, “Flies don’t enter a closed mouth.”
正如一句西班牙谚语所说，“祸从口入。”(July 26, 1992)
As a Navajo proverb puts it, “What comes around goes around.”
正如纳瓦霍族的一句谚语所说，“一报还一报。”(May 28, 1987)
As a local proverb here in Chad puts it: A woman who is pregnant has one foot in the grave.
正如乍得当地的一句谚语所说：女人怀宝宝，鬼门关上走一遭。(March 20, 2004)
An old proverb has it that “if the thorn doesn’t scratch when it first emerge, it will never scratch.”
有一句古老的谚语说，“如果荆棘刚长出时不扎手，那么它就永远不扎手。”(March 26, 2006)
5) There is a proverb: ---
6) There is a / the proverb that goes / states, ---
There’s an African proverb: “Educate a boy, and educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.”
有一句非洲的谚语说：“教育好一个男孩，仅教育好一人。教育好一个女孩，则教育好一群人。”(August 19, 2009)
There’s a Russian proverb that goes: you must support the most talented people because untalented people will support themselves.
有一句俄罗斯谚语说，你须拥戴贤人，庸者仅会自顾。(December 31, 1995)
There is an old Jewish proverb that states: “A Shekel is always better in my pocket than in yours. “
有一句古老的犹太谚语说：“金币在我口袋里总比在你口袋里强。”(August 10, 2009)
7) ---, a / the proverb goes, ---
8) ---, goes a / the proverb, ---
“A river is deep,” an old African proverb goes, “because of its source.”
有一句古老的.非洲谚语说，河有源泉水才深。(September 24, 2008)
To kill a snake, goes an old African proverb, you must first crush the head.
有一句古老的非洲谚语说，打蛇先打头。(September 22, 1985)
9) --- have a proverb that goes, ---
10) There exists a proverb. It goes, ---
The Arabs have a proverb that goes, “When the sultan’s dog died, everyone marched in his funeral. But when the sultan himself died, no one marched at all. “
阿拉伯人有一句谚语是这样说的，“当苏丹的狗死了，人人都为之送葬。而当苏丹死了，却无人为之送葬。”(November 27, 1983)
There exists an old Soviet proverb. It goes, “In the monastery, you don’t offer your own view.”
有一个古老的俄罗斯谚语说，“。”(May 17, 1984)
谚语作为群众集体智慧的结晶，多具有鲜明的民族性和地域特色。由于中西文化的差异，一些在汉语中人们耳熟能详的谚语却未必为西方人所理解。所以在引用汉语谚语时，如果中国特色过于浓厚，则可舍其形而取其意，写成英语中与之意思对等的西方谚语。例如，有的同学想表达这个意思：本性难移，于是写道：As a Chinese proverb goes, a dog cannot change its habit of eating shit. 这样写不但失之粗鄙，还会让爱犬的西方人大惑不解。所以，这个意思宜写成A leopard cannot change its spots. 或者A fox may grow gray, but never good.
篇一：
Union is strength. 团结就是力量。
Until all is over one's ambition never dies. 不到黄河心不死。
Use a book as a bee does flowers. 读书如蜜蜂采花，吸取其中之精华。
Virtue is a jewel of great price. 美德是无价之宝。
Virtue is fairer far than beauty. 美德远比美丽更美好。
Virtue is her (or its) own reward. 为善最乐。
Virtue is the only true nobility. 唯有美德是真正高贵的。
Wash a dog comb a dog Still a dog remains a dog. 本性难移。
Waste not want not. 俭以防匮。
Weak men wait for opportunity but the strong men make it. 若者等待机会，强者创造机会。
You can't eat your cake and have it. 不能既要吃饼，又要把饼保存。
You can't make omelets (or omeletts) without breaking eggs. 有失才有得。
You have no goats and yet you sell kids. 你虽无老山羊，却出卖小山羊。
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. 有热情而无知识，犹如有火焰而无光芒。
If there were less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ( O. Wilde ) 如果世界上少一些同情，世界上也就会少一些麻烦。(王尔德)
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ( L.Blum )
品德可能仅仅在于有勇气作出抉择。(布鲁斯)
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. ( Muggeridge )
没有黑暗这种东西，只有看不见而已。(马格里奇)
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 .they make them.(George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist )
在这个世界上，取得成功的人是那些努力寻找他们想要机会的人，如果找不到机会，他们就去创造机会。( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)
Power invariably means both responsibility and danger .(Theodore Roosevelt, American president)
实力永远意味着责任和危险。 (美国总统 罗斯福. T.)
But has the last word been said ? Is all hope to be lost? Is the defeat final No !(Charles De Gaulle , French president)
但是难道败局已定，胜利已经无望?不，不能这样说! (法国总统 戴高乐. C.)
Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life.( Thomas Edison , American inventor)
有所成就是人生唯一的真正乐趣。( 美国发明家 爱迪生. T.)
Go where he will, the wise man is at home His harth the earth, his hall the azure dome. (R.W.Emerson, American thinker)
明智者四海为家--地球是他的.壁炉，蓝天是他的客厅。(美国思想家 爱默生.R.W.)
Every soil where he is well, is to a valiand man his natural country. (Masinger Phililp, British dramatist)
勇敢的人随遇而安，所到之处都是故乡。(英国剧作家 菲利普.M.)
Be it ever so humble , there is no place like home. (John Howard Payne, Averican drmatist and actor)
金窝，银窝，不如自家的草窝。(美国剧作家、演员佩恩. J. H.)
All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right.---R. H. Stoddard, American poet
做一切事都应尽力而为，半途而废永远不行。---美国诗人 斯大林 拖达德.R. H.
All of us bear witness to the dissolution of our piece of creation. Only the novelist can restore to us, in the miracle of ink that pours itself like blood onto paper, the lineaments of our lost worlds, alive.---Norma Rosen, American novelist
我们都眼见自己创造物的变化消亡，唯有小说家能凭借墨水拥有像血一样息行流注纸上的奇迹，为我们恢复失去的世界，使它的面貌活灵活现。---美国小说家 罗森.N.
篇二：
1) 君子之交淡如水.A hedge between keeps friendship green.
2) 机不可失,时不再来.Take time while time is,for time will away.
3) 集思广益.Two heads are better than one.
4) 未雨绸缪.Provide for a rainy day.
5) 真金不怕火炼.True blue will never strain.
6) 必须相信自己,这是成功的秘诀.You have to believe in yourself.That's the secret of success.
7) 燕雀安知鸿鹄之志.A sparrow cannot understand the ambition of a swan.
8) 身正不怕影子歪.A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
9) 天涯何处无芳草.There is plenty of fish in the sea.
10) 大智若愚.Cats hind their paws.
11) 人不可貌相,海水不可斗量.Judge not a book by its cover.(Never judge from appearances.)
12) 有情人终成眷属.All shall be well,Jack shall have jill.
13) 海内存知己,天涯若比邻.The world is but a little place,after all.
14) 宁为鸡头,不为凤尾.It is better to be a head of dog than a tail of a lion..
15) 良药苦口.A good medicine tastes bitter.
16) 知识就是力量.Knowledge is power.
17) 金钱不是万能的.Money is not everything.
18) 时不我待.Time and tide wait no man.
19) 少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲.A young idler,an old beggar.
20) 趁热打铁.Strike while the iron is hot.
21) 天生我才必有用.Every man has his price.
22) 看破生死的人能成大事.He who sees through life and death will meet with most success.
23) 世上无难事,只要肯登攀.Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
24) Noting venture,noting gain.
25) 不鸣则已,一鸣惊人.It never rains but it pours.
26) 胜者为王,败者为寇.Losers are always in the wrong.
27) 谋事在人,成事在天.Man proposes,God deposes.
28) 众人拾柴火焰高.Many hands make light work.
29) 不经风雨,怎能见彩虹. No cross, no crown.
30) 没有付出,就没有收获.No pain, no gain.
31) 不进则退.Not to advance is to go back.
32) No way is impossible to courage.勇者无惧.
