英文諺語 301~

 301. Good to begin well, better to end well. 有好的開始是不錯的，堅持到底更重要。

302. He who begins many things, finishes but few. 樣樣事只有開始，到頭來一事無成。

 

303. He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. 登高必自卑。

 

304. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患難見真情。

 

305. Forgive and forget. 

         既往不咎。

306. A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often. 江山易改，本性難移。

 

307. After black clouds, clear weather. 守得雲開見月時。

 

308. Do not forget little kindness and do not remember small faults. 

      小善不忘，小錯不念。

 

309. Every bean has its black. 金無赤金，人無完人。

 

310. Too much water drowned the miller. 過猶不及。

311. Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it. 水能載舟；亦能覆舟。

 

312. He that touches pitch shall be defiled. 近朱者赤，近墨者黑。

 

313. Violent fires soon burn out. 野火燒不盡，春風吹又生。

 

314. The devil is not so black as he is painted. 過甚其詞。

 

315. The fairer the paper, the fouler the blot. 黑白分明。

316. The pot calls the kettle black. 半斤八兩。

 

317. There is no wool so white but a dyer can make it black. 人非聖賢，孰能無過。

 

318. There's a black sheep in every flock. 樹大有枯枝，族大有乞兒。

 

319. A book that is shut, is but a block. 開卷有益。

 

320. A good book is a light to the soul. 一本好書是靈魂之光。

321. He teaches ill, who teaches all. 樣樣都教樣樣糟。

 

322. Example is better than precept. 身教重於言教。

 

323. It is well to profit by the folly of others. 前車可鑒。

 

324. By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it. 讀書使心智豐富，交談使心智明亮。

 

325. Books and friends should be few and well chosen. 

      多不如少，少不如好。

326. Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. 書籍乃世人累積智慧之不滅明燈。

 

327. Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. 每一個人都是一卷書，只要你懂得如何閱讀它。

 

328. Good books need no boost. 好書無需誇耀。

 

329. Practice what you preach. 言出必行。

 

330. Take things as they come. 既來之則安之。

331. That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. 好書開卷時引人入勝，終卷時使人獲益。

 

332. You cannot tell a book by its cover. 凡事不可貌相。

 

333. Experience is the best teacher. 不經一事，不長一智。

 

334. Experience is the mother of wisdom. 經驗乃智慧之母。

 

335. A beggar pays a benefit with a louse.   以怨報德。

336. Once bitten, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕草繩。

 

337. Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark. 日出而作，日入而息。

 

338. Better die a beggar than live a beggar. 不食嗟來之食。

 

339. Soon ripe, soon rotten. 速戰速決。

 

340. Diet cures more than a doctor. 良藥苦口利於病。

341. Industry is the parent of success. 勤勉為成功之本。

 

342. There are many ways to fame. 行行出狀元。

 

343. Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows. 上行下效。

 

344. Do in Rome as the Romans do. 入鄉隨俗。

 

345. Good manners are the fine flowers of civilization. 

  良好的禮貌是文明的漂亮花朵。

346. Character is what makes one man stand out more prominently than another. 一個人的德性使他與眾不同。

 

347. Full of courtesy, full of craft.    禮多必詐。

 

348. Gather you rosebuds while you may. 

       花開堪折直須折。