中外名言警句、谚语，中英对照

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
－－Mark Twain
不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。

Man errs so long as strives.
－－Johann Wolfgang Goethe,German poet and dramatist
人只要奋斗就会犯错误。

Where there is a will, there is a way.
－－Thomas Edison
有志者，事竟成。

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
－－Helen Keller
要使性格有所发展并非简单之事，只有通过艰难和困苦的磨练才能使心灵强化，视野开阔，雄心振奋，从而达到成功的目的。

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
－－William Shakespeare
美德是勇敢的，善良从来无所畏惧。

Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
－－Francis Bacon
历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深邃；伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞学使人善辩。

Never too old to learn.
－－Thomas Middleton, British writer
活到老学到老。

The more you study, the more you will find yourself ignorant.
－－Rene Descartes, French philosopher/mathematician
学，然后知不足。

All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
－－Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
所有幸福的家庭都十分相似；而每个不幸的家庭各有自不幸。

Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
－－Charles BernardFrench philosopher
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。

Knowledge is power.
－－Francis Bacon
知识就是力量。

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
－－Aldous Leonard HuxleyAmerican writer
经验不会从天降；经验只有通过实践才能获得。

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
－－Voltaire, French writer
我不同意你说的话，但是我愿意誓死捍卫你说话的权利。

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
－－Aristotle, Ancient Greek philosopher
吾爱吾师，吾更爱真理。

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
－－Albert Einstein
想象力比知识更为重要。

Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
－－William Shakespeare
不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。

I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I don’t know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world.
－－Thomas Edison
我想揭示大自然的秘密，用来造福人类。认为，在我们的短暂一生中，最好的贡献莫过于此了。

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.
－－Mark Twain
就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了我们的最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有任何金钱。

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty and truth.
－－Albert Einstein
有些理想曾为我引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是—真、善、美。

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
－－Franklin Roosevelt
实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
－－Joshuas Reynolds, American female essayist
如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
－－John Kennedy
美国同胞们，不要问国家能为你们做些什么，而要问你们能为国家做些什么。全世界的公民们，不要问美国将为你们做些什么，而要问我们共同能为人类的自由做些什么。

Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life.
－－Thomas Edison
有所成就是人生唯一的真正的乐趣。

Success covers a multitude of blunders.
－－George Bernard Shaw
成功由大量的失误铸成。

You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success.
－－Charles Chaplin
人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。

A light heart lives long.
－－William Shakespeare
豁达者长寿。

Bitter pills may have blessed effects.
－－Anonymous
良药苦口利于病。

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.
－－M.T. Cicero,Ancient Roman orator and statesman
心灵上的疾病比身体上的疾病更危险。

The first wealth is health.
－－Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker
健康是人生第一财富。

All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
－－Voltaire, French thinker
人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
－－Bertrand Russell
乞丐并不羡慕百万富翁，尽管他们一定会羡慕比他们乞讨得多的乞丐。

It is good to have money to buy things that money can buy, but it is better not to lose things money cannot buy.
－－George H Lorimer, American journalist
有钱去买能买得到的东西当然不错，但是不丢失用金钱买不到的东西更好。

Money is a good servant and a bad master.
－－Francis Bacon
金钱是善仆，也是恶主。

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.
－－Frankin Roosevelt
任何一个国家，不管它多么富裕，都浪费不起人力资源。

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man enjoy in this world.
－－Joseph Addison, American writer
知足是人生在世最大的幸事。

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
－－Vitor Hugo
生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。

Do you love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.
－－Benjamin Franklin
你热爱生命吗？那么，别浪费时间，因为生命是由时间组成的。

Never leave that until tomorrow, which you can do today.
－－Benjamin Franklin
今天的事不要拖到明天。

The time of life is short, to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long.
－－William Shakespeare
人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的人生就太长了。

To choose time is to save time.
－－Francis Bacon
合理安排时间是节约时间。

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others.
－－William A. White, American journalist
自由就是这样的东西，不给予别人，你自己也无法得到。

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
－－George Washington
自由一旦生根，便是株迅猛生长的植物。

Smokers and nonsmokers cannot be equally free in the same railway carriage.
－－George Bernard Shaw
吸烟者和不吸烟者在同一节车厢里无法享受同样的自由。

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
－－William Makepeace Thackeray,British novelist
令人愉快的欢笑是房间里的阳光。

He that travels far knows much.
－－John Ray, British scientist
远行者见闻多。

I never consider ease and joyfulness as the purpose of life itself.
－－Albert Einstein
我从来不认为安逸和欢乐就是生活本身的目的。

In almost every face and every person, they may discover fine feathers and defects, good and bad qualities.
－－Benjamin Franklin
人各有其面，有优缺点，有长短处。

The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
－－Flaubert
人生在世首要大事是保持灵魂的高尚。

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food for the body.
－－Cicero, Ancient Roman statesman and orator
学习对于头脑，如同食物对于身体一样不可缺少。

My philosophy of life is work.
－－Thomas Alva Edison
我的人生哲学就是工作。

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。

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
－－Cicero
可以说，朋友是另一个自我。

Friendship is an essential ingredient in the making of a healthful, rewarding life.
－－Ralph Waldo EmersonAmerican thinker
友谊是使人的一生健康而有意义所不可缺少的组成部分。

Friendship is both a source of pleasure and a component of good health.
－－Ralph Waldo Emerson
友谊既是快乐之源泉，又是健康之要素。

Mistakes are an essential part of education.
－－Bertrand Russell, British philosopher
从错误中吸取教训是教育极为重要的一部分。

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
－－Elbert Hubbard, American writer
主动性是指在没有人告诉你的情况下去做合适的事情。

Strong reasons make strong actions.
－－William Shakespeare
强有力的理由产生强有力的行动。

There is no time like the present.
－－Tobias George SmallettBritish novelist
时不待我，没有比现在更宝贵的了。

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
－－Hellen Keller, American writer
虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难总是能战胜的。

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
－－Jereny Taylor, American composer
以学识自傲是最大的无知。

A friendship founded on business is better than business founded on friendship.
－－John D. Rockerfeller, American businessman
建立在商务基础上的友谊胜过建立在友谊基础上的商务。

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.
－－Thomas Jefferson, American president
没有哪个社会可以制订一部永远适用的宪法，甚至一条永远适用的法律。

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。

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。

Example is always more efficacious than precept.
－－Samuel Johnson British writer and critic
身教胜于言教。

异曲同工的中英文谚语
After a storm comes a calm——雨过天晴
　　剧变骚乱之后，总会归于平静，此语缘于1200年，在美国首见于《拉迪松航行记》一书，此书叙述的是法国探险家拉迪松的航行故事。
该谚语的其它常用形式还有the calm before the storm. The storm before the calm
　　E.g. In fact I’m actually starting to view the age of thirty-nine as the storm before the calm. As I hear tell , many woman reach a state of grace at forty.--------Ladies’ Home Journal
　　事实上，我如今已经开始把三十九岁看成平静之前的暴风雨了。我听说，很多女性四十岁就达到一种优雅的境界。——《妇女家庭杂志》



　　Threatened man live long
　　“是故天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身……然后知生于忧患，死于安乐也。”两千年前孟子如是说。古往今来，无数的世人世事为此提供例证。两种语言，两种竟如此吻合，不能不令人称奇。
　　E.g. Their enemies have been vowing to stop their supplies, yet threatened man live long. They seem to be growing steadily all the same.



　　There’s no such thing as free lunch.世界上没有免费的午餐。
    这句谚语来自英文，却普遍被国人所接受，中国谚语有：无功不受禄；吃人家嘴软，拿人家手短。贪欲是致命的深渊。
　　E.g. John is fond of taking petty advantages. Once, he walked into a restaurant that had a sign reading: free food on our third anniversary. He ordered his food and found it enjoyable untilled was given a bill—the food was, indeed, free, but the drinks he ordered cost him twice as much as the food itself. There’s no such thing as free food.



　　From clogs to clogs is only three generations.
　　中国有句俗话叫做富不过三代，上面这句起源于英国的谚语表达的也是这个意思。Clog是英格兰常见的下层劳动者的装束，直译就是：从穿clog(木底鞋)到clog不过三代人而已。二者可谓异曲同工。皆体现出创业于守成二者之间的道理，其中深意，或可为诫。
　　亦作：From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
　　E.g. The father buys, the son buildings, The grandchild sells and his son begs. So goes an English saying. The curse of God rest on idleness and that’s why “from clog to clog is only three generations”



　　New brooms sweep clean. 新买的扫帚扫的干净。
    与中文谚语“新官上任三把火”有惊人的相似之处。都是人们对一种常见情形的批评。
　　E.g. When Tom became the general manager, everybody in office placed great hopes on him. New broom sweep clean. They felt .he seemed quite energetic during the frist few months, but his enthusiasm soon petered out and everything was back to normal.

关于Friendship 的一些谚语
A man who has friends must show himself friendly.
要有朋友，必须以友谊待人。

A friend is a second self.
朋友乃第二之自我。

No road is long with good company.
与良友为伴，路遥不觉远。

Faith will move mountain.
精诚所至，金石为开。

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
与恶友交不如独处。

Fine feathers make fine birds.
小鸟需要美丽的羽毛衬托。

Judge not according to the appearance.
勿以貌取人。

It is not the coat that makes the gentleman.
衣服不能使人成为君子。

I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
我不能同时是你的朋友又为你的阿谀奉承者。

Without confidence there is no friendship.
没有信任就没有友谊。

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。

A good friend is my nearest relation.
好友即至亲。

Without a friend, the world is a wilderness.
没有朋友，世界成了荒野。

The best mirror is a friend’s eye.
朋友的眼睛是最好的镜子。

Success has many friends.
成功者朋友多。

Poverty tries friends.
贫穷考验朋友。

Better without gold than without friends.
宁可没有金钱，不可没有朋友。

It is easy to swim if another holds up your head.
有人扶着头，容易学游泳。

A friend to all is a friend to none.
滥交者无友。

All are not friends that speak us fair.
说我们好话的未必全是朋友。

A man is known by his friends.
视其友可知其人。

Better an open enemy than a false friend.
虚假的朋友比公开的敌人更坏。

Books and friends should be few but good.
书籍和朋友，在好不在多。

Friendless is the dead.
只有死人才没有朋友。

Friendship cannot stand always on one side.
单方面的友谊不久长。

Friends must part.
送君千里，终须一别。

Any help is better than no help.
任何帮助都胜于没有帮助。

A trouble shared is a trouble halved.
两人分担，困难减半。

A friend is easier lost than found.
朋友易失不易得。

Every man has his faults.
人都有缺点。

True friendship lasts forever.
真正的友谊地久天长。

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
交友的唯一方法是自己必须够朋友。

Many hands make light work.
人多好办事。

When a friend asks, there is no “tomorrow”.
朋友之求不可怠。

Even the best of friends must part.
天下无不散的宴席。

A man’s house is his castle.
一个人的家就是他的城堡。

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
预防为主，治疗为辅。

A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。

As a man sows, so he shall reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

A single flower does not make a spring.
一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。

A snow year, a rich year.
瑞雪兆丰年。

A sound mind in a sound body.
健全的精神寓于健康的身体。

A still tongue makes a wise head.
寡言者智。

A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不补，大洞吃苦。

A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
身正不怕影子斜。

A wise head makes a close mouth.
真人不露相，露相非真人。

A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷马难追。

A year's plan starts with spring.
一年之计在于春。

A young idler, an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。

Bad news has wings.
好事不出门，坏事传千里。

Barking dogs seldom bite.
吠犬不咬人。

Beauty lies in the love's eyes.
情人眼里出西施。

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。

Better late than never.
不怕慢，单怕站。

Better to ask the way than go astray.
问路总比迷路好。

Between friends all is common.
朋友之间不分彼此。

Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。

Blood is thicker than water.
血浓于水。

Blood will have blood.
血债血偿。

Books and friends should be few but good.
读书如交友，应求少而精。

Business is business.
公事公办。

Business is the salt of life.
事业是人生的第一需要。

By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。

Cannot see the wood for the trees.
一叶障目，不见泰山。

Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。

Caution is the parent of safety.
小心驶得万年船。

Cheats never prosper.
骗人发不了财。

Children are what the mothers are.
耳濡目染，身教言传。

Choose an author as you choose a friend.
择书如择友。

Come what may, heaven won't fall.
做你的吧，天塌不下来。

Complacency is the enemy of study.
学习的敌人是自己的满足。

Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是走向成功的第一步。

Constant dripping wears away a stone.
水滴石穿，绳锯木断。

Content is better than riches.
知足者常乐。

Count one's chickens before they are hatched.
蛋未孵先数雏。/ 高兴的太早。

Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
来而不往非礼也。

Creep before you walk.
循序渐进。

Cry for the moon.
海底捞月。

Custom is a second nature.
习惯是后天养成的。

Custom makes all things easy.
有个好习惯，事事皆不难。

Diamond cuts diamond.
强中自有强中手。

Do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗。

Do as you would be done by.
己所不欲，勿施于人。

Doing is better than saying.
与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。

Do it now.
机不可失，时不再来。

Do nothing by halves.
凡事不可半途而废。

Don't claim to know what you don't know.
不要不懂装懂。

Don't have too many irons in the fire.
不要揽事过多。

Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
不要小题大做。

Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
今日事，今日毕。

Don't put the cart before the horse.
不要本末倒置。

Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
不要自找麻烦。

Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班门弄斧。

Do well and have well.
善有善报。

Each bird love to hear himself sing.
孤芳自赏。

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身体好。

Easier said than done.
说得容易，做得难。

Easy come, easy go.
来也匆匆，去也匆匆。

Eat to live, but not live to eat.
人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。

Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
实磨无声空磨响，满瓶不动半瓶摇。

Envy has no holidays.
忌妒之人无宁日。

Even Homer sometimes nods.
智者千虑，必有一失。

Even reckoning makes long friends.
亲兄弟，明算账。

Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。

Everybody's business is nobody's business.
人人负责，等于没人负责。

Every day is not Sunday.
好景不常在。

Every dog has his day.
谁都有得意的时候。

Every door may be shut, but death's door.
人生在世，唯死难逃。

Every heart has its own sorrow.
各人有各人的苦恼。

Every little helps a mickle.
聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。

Ever4 man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
人不为己，天诛地灭。

Every man has his faults.
金无足赤，人无完人。

Every man has his hobbyhorse.
萝卜青菜，各有所爱。

Every man has his weak side.
人人都有弱点。

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
自己的命运自己掌握。

Every minute counts.
分秒必争。

Every mother's child is handsome.
孩子是自己的好。

Every potter praises hit pot.
王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。

Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。

Example is better then percept.
说一遍，不如做一遍。

Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。

Experience must be bought.
吃一堑，长一智。

Fact speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。

Failure is the mother of success.
失败是成功之母。

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。

Far from eye, far from heart.
眼不见，心不烦。

Far water does not put out near fire.
远水救不了近火。

Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。

Fear always springs from ignorance.
恐惧源于无知。

Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
隔墙有耳。

Fire and water have no mercy.
水火无情。

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
火是一把双刃剑。

First come, first served.
先来后到。

First impressions are half the battle.
初次见面，印象最深。

First think and then speak.
先想后说。

Fools grow without watering.
朽木不可雕。

Fool's haste is no speed.
欲速则不达。

Fools has fortune.
呆人有呆福。

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
愚者不学无术，智者不耻下问。

Forbidden fruit is sweet.
禁果格外香。

Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
机遇偏爱善断之人。

Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
风水轮流转。

Four eyes see more than two.
集思广益。

Friends agree best at distance.
朋友之间也会保持距离。

Friends are thieves of time.
朋友是时间的窃贼。

Friends must part.
再好的朋友也有分手的时候。

Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
天才不过是勤奋而已。

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
众口铄金，积毁销骨。

God helps those who help themselves.
自助者天助。

Gold will not buy anything.
黄金并非万能。

Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
以德报德是常理，以德报怨大丈夫。

Good health is over wealth.
健康是最大的财富。

Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.
良药苦口利于病。

Good watch prevents misfortune.
谨慎消灾。

Great barkers are no biters.
好狗不挡道。

Great hopes make great man.
伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。

Great minds think alike.
英雄所见略同。

Great men have great faults.
英雄犯大错误。

Great men's sons seldom do well.
富不过三代。

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
大树底下好乘凉。

Great wits have short memories.
贵人多忘事。

Greedy folks have long arms.
心贪手长。

Guilty consciences make men cowards.
做贼心虚。

Habit cures habit.
心病还需心药医。

Handsome is he who does handsomely.
行为漂亮才算美。

Happiness takes no account of time.
欢乐不觉时光过。

Happy is he who owes nothing.
要想活得痛快，身上不能背债。

Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
吸取他人教训，自己才会走运。

Harm set, harm get.
害人害己。

Hasty love, soon cold.
一见钟情难维久。

Health is better than wealth.
健康胜过财富。

Health is happiness.
健康就是幸福。

Hear all parties.
兼听则明。

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
自己不动，叫天何用。

He is a fool that forgets himself.
愚者忘乎所以。

He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
背后说好话，才是真朋友。

He is a wise man who speaks little.
聪明不是挂在嘴上。

He is lifeless that is faultless.
只有死人才不犯错误。

He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
正人先正己。

He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
自嘲者不会让人见笑。

He is wise that is honest.
诚实者最明智。

He knows most who speaks least.
大智若愚。

He laughs best who laughs last.
谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。

He sets the fox to keep the geese.
引狼入室。

He that climbs high falls heavily.
爬得越高，摔得越重。

He that will not work shall not eat.
不劳动者不得食。

He who does not advance loses ground.
逆水行舟，不进则退。

He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
经常诉苦，没人同情。

He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
想不犯错误，就一事无成。

He who risks nothing gains nothing.
收获与风险并存。