名言英语
- Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
- Light come,light go.
- A candle lights others and consumes itself.
- A candle lights others and consumes itself.
- You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
- Adversity leads to prosperity.
- A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
- Adversity is a good discipline.
- A true friend is known in the day of adversity.
- Pleasure comes through toil.
- A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
- Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Talking mends no holes.
- Empty wagons rattle loudest.
- Deliberate in counsel,prompt in action.
- A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
- Reading enriches the mind.
- A hedge between keeps friendship green.
- It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
- A gentleman would rather be quick in action than talk a lot.
- Kings go mad,and the people suffer for it.
- Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
- Every little helps a mickle.
- A great ship asks deep water.
- New wine in old bottles.
- A constant guest is never welcome.
- in the dog house
- A light heart lives long.
- Still water run deep.
- We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
- In doing we learn.
- Experience keeps a dear school,but fools learn in no other.
- Experience is the best teacher.
- Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
- He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
- Forbidden fruit is sweet.
- Offense is the best defense.
- Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.
- card up one's sleeve
- We would rather be short of books than believe all that they say.
- Good watch prevents misfortune.
- Care and diligence bring luck.
- East,west,home is best.
- There is no place like home.
- Money answers all things.
- Money is a bottomless sea,in which honour,conscience,and truth may be drowned.
- Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
- Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
- A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm.
- Rob Peter to pay Paul
- All that ends well is well.
- To save time is to lengthen life.
- The best physicians are Dr. Diet,Dr. Quiet,and Dr. Merryman.
- If you run after two hares,you will catch neither.
- Frugality is an estate alone.
- Between two stools you fall to the ground.
- rack one's brain
- A crafty knave needs no broker.
- Pride goes before,and shame comes after.
- A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
- One never loses anything by politeness.
- A fox may grow gray,but never good.
- A sound mind in a sound body.
- The first wealth is health.
- Good health is over wealth.
- Health is better than wealth.
- Health is happiness.
- A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold.
- Less is more.
- Waste not,want not.
- Hear all parties.
- Waste not,want not.
- on and off
- Success belongs to the persevering.
- stand one's ground
- A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
- A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- There is a skeleton in the cupboard.
- Wash your dirty linen at home.
- Take things as they come.
- A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
- Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
- Envy has no holidays.
- Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
- Do as you would be done by.
- A leopard cannot change its spots.
- Small gains bring great wealth.
- Take care of the pence,and the pounds will take care of themselves.
- Every little make a nickle.
- Many a little makes a mickle.
- Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs.
- Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
- The fox knew too much,that's how he lost his tail.
- Misfortunes come at night.
- Misfortunes never come alone.
- Pull the chestnut out of fire.
- Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
- Learn and live.
- He that will lie will steal.
- Better master one than engage with ten.
- Though a lie be well drest,it is ever overcome.
- Lies can never changes fact.
- Lies have short legs.
- Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
- A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
- A lie begets a lie till they come to generation.
- When the fox preaches,take care of your geese.
- Gold will not buy anything.
- be for the birds
- Adversity makes a man wise,not rich.
- A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Adversity makes a man wise,not rich.
- Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
- A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Happiness takes no account of time.
- Happiness takes no account of time.
- The good seaman is known in bad weather.
- Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
- convert an enemy into a friend
- A plant may produce new flowers;man is young but once.
- outdoor activity
- A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
- A little pot is soon hot.
- A fox may grow grey,but never good.
- Business neglected is business lost.
- United we stand,divided we fall.
- A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
- A good book is a light to the soul.
- A good book is a good friend.
- A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change.
- Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
- Praise makes good men better,and bad men worse.
- Whom the gods love die young.
- Short accounts make long friends.
- A good name is better than riches.
- A good horse often needs a good spur.
- Every day is not Sunday.
- A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.
- Great barkers are no biters.
- We know not what is good until we have lost it.
- A good fame is better than a good face.
- A good face is a letter of recommendation.
- A good name keeps lustre in the dark.
- Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
- Harm set,harm get.
- keep an open mind about different opinions
- The world is but a little place,after all.
- Cry for the moon.
- Every mother's child is handsome.
- When children stand quiet,they have done some harm.
- Pain past is pleasure.
- Let bygones be bygones.
- Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
- Too much humility is pride.
- Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
- Too much praise is a burden.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- Great wits have short memories.
