【第1句】：詩人是世上沒有得到承認的立法者。Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

【第2句】：說得漂亮固好，做得漂亮更佳。Better said than done.

【第3句】：貴人多忘事。Great men forget.

【第4句】：沒有廉恥心，沒有好德行。No shame, no virtue.

【第5句】：人有稱心時，狗有得意日。Every dog has his day.

【第6句】：至理名言不會過時。A good maxim is never out of season.

【第7句】：一本好書，莫逆之交。A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.

【第8句】：一只爛蘋果爛一蘿蘋果。One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.

【第9句】：凡是都有起源。Everything has a beginning.

【第10句】：理論好不如實際好。Practice is better than theory.

【第11句】：智者不恥于改變初衷。A wise man is not ashamed of changing his mind.

【第12句】：趁風揚帆。Sail before the wind.

【第13句】：愛情無需教導。Love needs no teaching.

【第14句】：不嘗黃連苦，怎知蜂蜜甜。Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.

【第15句】：訴說煩惱等于增加煩惱。Telling your troubles is adding to your troubles.

【第16句】：問題不是活得多么長，而是活得怎么樣。The question is not how long, but how.

【第17句】：不宜問道于盲。It is no use asking a blind question.

【第18句】：唯智者善于利用空閑。Only a wise man can make good use of leisure.

【第19句】：歲月無情。Time and tide wait for no man.

【第20句】：上梁不正下梁歪。The top beam is not straight and the bottom beam is crooked.

【第21句】：不要因為怕貧苦而放棄自由。Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty.

【第22句】：錢可神通。Money talks.

【第23句】：閑話少說，言歸正傳。Cut the chatter and get down to business.

【第24句】：愛人和得到人愛是人生最大的幸福。To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

【第25句】：多問不吃虧。It pays to ask much.

【第26句】：真理不些要色彩，美麗不需涂飾。Truth needs no colour; beauty, no pencil.

【第27句】：水中可見自己的臉，酒中可見別人的心。In water you may see your own face, in wine the heart of another.

【第28句】：鞋匠的老婆沒有好鞋穿。The cobbler's wife has no good shoes.

【第29句】：少女有了許多求婚者往往選中了最差的一個。A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.

【第30句】：學問集年而成，而每日不自知也。Years pass by without knowledge.

【第31句】：(KahlilGibran)當他對你說話時，相信他，雖然他的聲音也許會像北風吹毀花園一樣打碎你的夢想。When he speaks to you, trust him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

【第32句】：一旦上了岸，就不再祈禱。Once on shore, pray no more.

【第33句】：狐貍可以改變皮毛，但不能改變習性。The fox may alter his coat, but not his habit.

【第34句】：美就是真，真就是美。Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

【第35句】：饑寒起盜心。Hunger and cold make the heart grow fonder.

【第36句】：老而貧窮，負擔沈重。Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.

【第37句】：直言不諱。Call a spade a spade.

【第38句】：小洞不補，大洞吃苦。A stitch in time saves nine.

【第39句】：早睡早起，令人健康、富有而且聰明。Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

【第40句】：事既值得做，就把事做好。What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

【第41句】：一個人的聲音是沒有力量的。The voice of one man is the voice of no one.

【第42句】：人是靠希望活著的。Man lives by hope.

【第43句】：貓犬可相吻，莫逆卻難成。The cat and dog may kiss, yet are none the better.

【第44句】：白天當白天，夜晚當夜晚，生活過得好，愉快而多歡。Make the night night, and the day day, and you will have a pleasant time of it.

【第45句】：慢工出細活。Slow work makes slow work.

【第46句】：言不在多，而在有物。The word is not in the many, but in the thing.

【第47句】：一葉便知秋。Autumn is known by a leaf.

【第48句】：有生必有死。As we live we must die.

【第49句】：少管閑事。Mind your own business.

【第50句】：強者必勝。The strong will prevail.

【第51句】：夢不足信。Dreams are not to be believed.

【第52句】：美麗只是盛開的花朵。Beauty is but a blossom.

【第53句】：龍配龍，鳳配鳳。Dragon with dragon, chicken with chicken.

【第54句】：世上無全能。There is no such thing as omnipotence.

【第55句】：一仆不能事二主。A man cannot serve two masters.

【第56句】：對青年人，我要奉勸幾句話∶工作，工作，再工作。To youth I have but a few words of counsel: work, work, work.

【第57句】：人人都講話，無人去聽它。When all men speak, no man hears.

【第58句】：疑神疑鬼，絕無收獲。Suspicion, no harvest.

【第59句】：欲知馬如何，可看套馬索。You may know the horse by his harness.

【第60句】：選擇目的包含著選擇手段。Choosing an end implies choosing a means.

【第61句】：玩火者必自焚。He that plays with fire gets burnt.

【第62句】：智者善聽人言。A wise man is a good listener.

【第63句】：自吹自擂。Blow one's own trumpet.

【第64句】：無可挽回。潑水難收？There is no turning back. You can't wash your hands.

【第65句】：早睡早起身體好。Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy.

【第66句】：法網只捉蒼蠅，不捉黃蜂。Laws catch flies but let hornets go free.

【第67句】：小巫見大巫。Nothing is more important than a drop in the bucket.

【第68句】：必須抓緊時間。We must hurry up.

【第69句】：昨天已經消逝，把它忘掉；明天還未來到，不必煩惱；今天就在眼前，把它用好。Yesterday is dead, forget it; Tomorrow does not come, do not worry; Today is here. Use it.

【第70句】：縱然知其難免一死，人卻難料何時身亡。It is impossible to know when a man will die, even though he knows he must die.

【第71句】：真理比幻想更奇特。Truth is stranger than fiction.

【第72句】：善行如日月經天。Good deeds are like the sun and the moon.

【第73句】：無功得名是常事，無過失名也是常事。Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.

【第74句】：有愛情就有忠誠。Where there is love, there is loyalty.

【第75句】：死亡與生存一樣自然。"Death is as natural as life."

【第76句】：害人害己。HearallpartiesHarm set, harm get. Hearallparties

【第77句】：財富如帶憂郁來，有了財富有何用？What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy?

【第78句】：避誘惑，免罪惡。Avoid temptation and sin.

【第79句】：勤奮是最偉大的導師。Diligence is the greatest teacher.

【第80句】：殺人終必敗露。Murder will out.

【第81句】：鴻運來時，百事順遂。Fortune knocks once at least at every man's door.

【第82句】：歡喜說他歡喜的話者將要聽到他不歡喜的話。He that is glad to say what he likes will hear what he does not.

【第83句】：智者當差，不用交代。A wise man on duty needs no explanation.

【第84句】：知識是萬物中最珍貴的財寶，丟不掉，偷不走，也不會損耗。Knowledge is the most precious treasure of all things, because it can never be given away, nor stolen nor consumed.

【第85句】：如要忠告向老人請教。Ask an old man for advice.

【第86句】：一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。Once bitten by a snake, one fears a coiled rope for the next ten years./Once bitten, twice shy.

【第87句】：先工作，后娛樂。Work before pleasure.

【第88句】：對弱者發脾氣證明你自己并不很強。Losing your temper to the weak proves that you are not very strong.

【第89句】：忍渴上床，起身健康。He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.

【第90句】：忍過痛受過苦，最知幸福是何物。He knows best what happiness is that has endured pain and sufferings.

【第91句】：講話不思考猶如射擊不對準目標。Speaking without thinking is shooting without aim.

【第92句】：為富不仁。Rich men are mean.

【第93句】：舉棋茍不定，何妨將一軍。When in doubt, fight.

【第94句】：與其忍辱偷生，不如光榮而死。Better die with honour than live with shame.

【第95句】：不要嘲笑皮匠的黑拇指。Do not laugh at a cobbler's black thumb.

【第96句】：一動不如一靜。Silence is better than motion.

【第97句】：各人管各人自己。Every man is his own man.

【第98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99句】：言多必失。He that talks much loses much.