英语谚语精选1000句.(English.Proverb.Collection).txt

1、1000(English Proverb Collection)1. Lying is the first step to the gallows.2. Waste not,want not.3. From saving comes having.4. A penny saved is a penny gained.5. Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.6. Frugality is an estate alone.He that regards not a penny,will lavish

2、a pound.Small gains bring great wealth.Many a little makes a mickle.As the touchstone tries gold,so gold tries man.Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.The path to glory is always rugged.Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.The fire is the test of gold;adversity of strong

3、 man.Great hopes make great man.No way is impossible to courage.A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.The good seaman is known in bad weather.The best hearts are always the bravest.We must not lie down,and cry,God help us.He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.Rome was not built in a day.

4、Success belongs to the persevering.We must repeat a thousand and one times that perseverance is the only road to success.Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.Step by step the ladder is ascended.Adversity leads to prosperity.Patience and application will carry us throug

5、h.Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.All things will come round to him who will but wait.Constant dropping wears the stone.Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs.The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.There needs a long apprenti

6、ceship to understand the mystery of the worlds trade.Life is sweet.()Where there is life,there is hope.Life is not all beer and skittles.Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.Fortune knocks once at least at every mans door.If you are too fortunate,you will not know yourself;if you

7、 are too unfortunate,nobody will know you.Every man is the architect of his own fortune.Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.Misfortunes never (seldom) come alone (single).Misfortune is a good teacher.Misfortunes come at night.Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.Adversity makes a man wise,

8、not rich.Live and learn.It is never too old to learn.A man becomes learned by asking questions.There is no royal road to learning.He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.Soon learnt,soon

9、forgotten.Learn young,learn fair.A lazy youth,a lousy age.He that knows nothing,doubts nothing.A good name keeps its luster in the dark.Fame is a magnifying glass.A good fame is better than a good face.Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off.Take honour from me and my life

10、 is done.Beware of him who regards not his reputation.It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy.Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.Your fathers honour is to you but a second-hand honour.Never trust another wh

11、at you should do yourself.It is an equal failing to trust everybody,and to trust nobody.Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.If you trust before you try,you may repent before you die.Never trust to fine words.Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.Be just to all,but trust not all

12、.Trust thyself only,and another shall not betray thee.Self-trust is the essence of heroism.Confidence is a plant of slow growth.Truth is the daughter of time.Truth hath a good face,but ill clothes.Truth and roses have thorns about them.Truth may be blamed,but shall never be shamed.Though malice may

13、darken truth,it cannot put it out.Truth will prevail.Truths best ornament is nakedness.Facts are stubborn things.Sooner or later,the truth comes to light.The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know.Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.There

14、 is many a fair thing full false.Though a lie be well drest,it is ever overcome.A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.A false tongue will hardly speak truth.False with one can be false with two.He that will lie will steal.Gossiping and lying go together.Equivocation is first cousin to a l

15、ie.A great talker is a great liar.The greatest liars talk most of themselves.Lying rides upon debts back.All is not gold that glitters.Money is the root of evil.Money makes the mare go.All things are obedient to money.Before gold,even kings take off their hats.Money is the key that opens all doors.B

16、eauty is potent,but money is more potent.Avarice increases with wealth.The money the miser hoards will do him no good.What is wealth good for,If it brings melancholy?Gold will not buy anything.The chief aim of man is not to get money.Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared

17、to do everything for money.Wealth makes worship.Little wealth,little care.A moneyless man goes fast through the market.Poverty is not a crime.Poverty is not a disgrace,but theft is a disgrace.Better be poor than wicked.Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace,but poverty without resolution to

18、help onself,is a disgrace.Poverty is the mother of health.Be considerate toward the poor.Poor and content is rich and rich enough.Poverty parteth fellowship.Poverty makes a man mean.Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty.Poverty and love are hard

19、 to hide.Poverty breeds strife.The poor man wants much,the miser everything.The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor.Poverty on an old mans back is a heavy burden.Beggars must (should) be no choosers.A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.A light purse makes a heavy heart.Po

20、or without debt is better than a prince.Happy is he who owes nothing.Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.He that goes a borrowing,goes a sorrowing.Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.Out of debt,out of danger.A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.He is the wisest man who does not think

21、 himself so.Wise men have their mouth in their heart,fools their heart in their mouth.Wise men learn by other mens mistakes;fools by their own.He is wise that knows when hes well enough.A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs.No man is born wi

22、se.A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.A word is enough to the wise.He is the wise man who is the honest man.A wise man thinks all that he says,a fool says all that he thinks.The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.It is easy to be

23、wise after the event.The wise man knows he knows nothing,the fool thinks the knows all.Fools learn nothing from wise men;but wise men learn much from fools.A fool always comes short of his reckoning.A fools heart dances on his lips.A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.A man may talk like

24、a wise man and yet act like a fool.The more riches a fool hath,the greater fool he is.Never challenge a fool to do wrong.It is better to please a fool than to anger him.He is a fool who cannot be angry,but he is a wise man who will not.Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.Wit w

25、ithout learning is like a tree without fruit.No man is wise at all times.Many heads are better than one.Virtue never grows old.Virtue is the only true nobility.Virtue is a jewel of great price.He that soweth virtue shall reap fame.To be virtuous is to do good.Glory is the shadow of virtue.There is n

26、o virtue that poverty destroyeth not.The first step to virtue is to abstrain from vice.No good building without a good foundation.One good turn deserves another.He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.If th

27、ey say you are good,ask yourself if it be true.He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.Never be weary of well doing.Of evil grain,no good seed can come.That which is evil is soon learnt.No vice goes alone.An evil lesson is soon learned.A bad thing never dies.Evil

28、 comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues.They that do nothing learn to do ill.A wicked man is his own hell.Those who eat best and drink best often do worst.He who has done ill once will do it again.There is no going heaven in a sedan.An ill

29、 life,an ill end.A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon.Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.Evil communications corrupt good manners.No wrong without remedy.Virtue flies from the heart of a mer

30、cenary man.First think,and then speak.A word spoken is past recalling(The words once spoken can never be recalled).While the word is in your mouth,it is your own;when tis once spoken, tis anothers.Speech is silver,silence is gold.Few words are best.No wisdom like silence.Least said,soonest mended.Se

31、cond thoughts are best.Look before you leap.He is a wise man who speaks little.Fair words butter no parsnips.The tongue is not made of steel,yet it cuts.Sometimes words hurt more than swords.A good tongue is a good weapon.A wise head makes a close mouth.It is one thing to speak much and another to s

32、peak pertinently.Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress,which is great and tall,but bears no fruit.Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.Many a true word is spoken in jest.Few words,many deeds.Actions speak louder than words.From words to deeds is a great space.Deeds,not words.Bare word

33、s,no bargain.Deeds are fruits,words are but leaves.Ill deeds cannot honour.Fine words dress ill deeds.Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools.Our own actions are our security,not others judgements.A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.A man is not good or bad for one ac

34、tion.A man apt to promise is apt to forget.A man that breaks his word,bids others to be false to him.Easier said than done.The greatest talkers are always the least doers.The proof of the pudding is in the eating.Pride goes before a fall.Pride goes before destruction.Pride goeth before,and shame com

35、eth after.Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.He that climbs high falls heavily.Pride must be pinched.The more noble the more humble.Humility often gains more than pride.He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none.No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself.Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.He that is full of himself is very empty.Honesty is the best policy.An honest man