常用英语谚语
◆Actions speak louder than words. 行动胜于语言。

◆Don’t judge a man’s actions at first sight; give them a second look.
乍看难评人，再看认得清。

◆Art is long, life is short. 人生短暂，技艺无涯。

◆Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 情人眼里出西施。

◆Life isn’t a bed of roses.
人生不是开满玫瑰的温床，不会事事称心如意。

◆You have made your bed and you must lie on it.
事情是你犯下的，后果必须由你来承担。

◆A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
一鸟在手胜于两鸟在林。

◆Birds of the same feather flock together.
羽毛相同的鸟会结群在一起。

（人与类聚，物与群分）
◆The early bird catches the worm.
早起的鸟有虫吃。

◆Kill two birds with one stone. One stone kills two birds.
用一个石头打死两只鸟。

（一石二鸟，一箭双雕）
◆It’s the mind that ennobles, not the blood.
使人崇高的是心灵而不是血统。

◆Blood is thicker than water. 血浓于水；近客不如远亲。

◆Blood will have blood. 血债要用血来还；杀人者偿命。

◆You can’t go far in a row-boat without oars.
巧妇难为无米之炊。

◆A little body often harbors a great soul.
莫道身躯小，伟人寓其间。

◆Business makes a man as well as tries him.
事业既会考验人，也会造就人。

◆Business is the salt of life. 事业是人生之盐，不可缺少。

◆Business neglected is business lost. 疏忽必失。

◆Chance dispenses life with unequal justice.
人生际遇，难得平等。

◆Children and fools cannot lie. 孩子和傻子，不会说谎。

◆Children are poor men’s riches. 孩子是穷人的财产。

◆The child is father of the man.
童年的经历可决定成年以后的性格(三岁看大)。

◆A great city is a great solitude. 城大人孤独。

◆The chicken is the country’s, but the city eats it. 坐享其成。

◆Clothes make the man. 人靠衣装马靠鞍。

◆Two is company, three is a crowd. --- 两人为伴，三人添乱。

◆Better go it alone than to be in bad company.
宁可一人独往，莫与坏人为伴。

◆You may know a man by the company he keeps.
只见其友则知其人。

◆A man without distant care must have sorrow.
人无远虑，必有近忧。

◆Friends agree best at a distance. 远方的朋友最相投。

◆Doctors’faults are covered with earth and rich men’s with money.
医生的过失用土埋，富人的过失用钱盖。

◆Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌。

◆Every dog has his day. 凡人皆有得意日。

◆You can not teach an old dog new tricks. 老人旧习难改。

◆Let sleeping dogs lie. 莫惹是生非。

◆When one door shuts another opens. 天无绝人之路。

◆Don’t knock at a dead man’s door and expect an answer.
对无动于衷的人不要抱希望。

◆Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。

◆It’s better to trust the eye than the ear. 耳闻不如亲见。

◆An evil eye can see no good. 恶人眼里无好人。

◆Mistakes happen in the best regulated families.
家规再严，错误难免。

◆As the baker, so the buns; as the father, so the sons.
有什么样的面包师就有什么样的面包；有其父必有其子。

◆Many a good father has but a bad son. 贤父难免生逆子。