英文谚语大全

英文谚语大全
Q字开头：
Quality is better than quantity. 质重于量。

Quality matters more than quantity. 质量比数量重要。

Quarrels of lovers but renew their love. 情人争争吵吵，自会言归于好。

Quick at meal, quick at work. 吃得快，做得快。

Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth. 手勤脚快，嘴里吃饱。

Quietness is best. 宁静最好。

Quietude is the crown of life. 安静是生命的皇冠。

P字开头：
Paddle your own canoe. 自立更生，自食其力。

Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了伤疤忘了痛。

Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 饶了坏人便伤了好人。

Patience and application will carry us through. 忍耐和努力会使我们度过难关。

Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden. 忍耐是朵花，并非人人园中都开发。

Patience is a plaster for all sores. 忍耐是治疗一切伤痛的药膏。

Patience is a virtue. 忍耐是一种美德。

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. 忍耐是苦痛的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。

Patience is the best remedy (or medicine). 忍耐是最好的药物。

Patience, time, and money overcome everything. 耐心，时间和金钱可以征服一切。

Pay somebody back in his own coin. 一报还一报。

Peace on earth and good will towards men. 愿世界得太平，人间持善意。

Peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making. 居安思危，此乃万全之策。

Pen and ink is wit's plough. 笔墨是才智之犁。

Penny and penny laid up will be many. 积少成多。

Penny wise and pound foolish. 小事聪明，大事糊涂。

People do not lack strength; they lack will. 人们不缺力量，缺的是决心。

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. 失败十九次，坚持而不动，待到二十次，大事就成功。

Perseverance is vital to success. 不屈不挠是成功之本。

Pitchers/Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。

Pity is akin to love. 怜悯近乎爱情。

Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears. 知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。

Pleasant hours fly fast. 欢乐的时间过得快。

Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody. 讨好每个人，人人不讨好。

Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 乐中必有苦。

Plenty is no plague. 富裕绝非灾祸。

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. 诗歌只不过是最美丽、最感人、最有力的说话方式，这也就是诗歌的价值。

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 诗人是世上没有得到承认的立法者。

Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. 礼貌不费分文而可赢得一切。

Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way. 文雅就是善良地做事，和善地说话。

Poor men's words have little weight. 人微言轻。

Poverty breeds strife. 贫穷引起斗争。

Poverty is apain, but no disgrace. 贫困是痛苦，但不是耻辱。

Poverty is no shame, laziness is. 贫穷不害羞，懒惰才可耻。

Poverty is no sin. 贫穷不是罪恶。

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. 贫非耻，耻贫乃耻。

Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace. 贫穷并不可耻，穷而不争气才可耻。

Poverty is the mother of all arts. 贫困乃一切艺术之源。

Poverty is the mother of health. 缺乏是健康之母。

Poverty is the reward of idleness. 贫穷是游手好闲的报应。

Poverty is the root of all evils. 穷困是万恶之源。

Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden. 老而贫穷，负担沈重。

Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies. 贫困才能显出敌和友。

Poverty tries friends. 贫穷考验朋友。

Practice is better than precept. 身教胜于言教。

Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。

Practice what you preach. 言必行。

Praise is not pudding. 恭维不是布丁。

Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 赞扬使好人更好，坏人更坏。

Praise no man till he is dead. 盖棺论定。

Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach. 说教的人不身体力行，就只能空谈，不能起教育作用。

Prepare for a rain day. 未雨绸缪。

Prevention is better than cure. 预防胜于治疗。

Pride and grace dwelt never in one place. 傲慢和温雅决不会共处在一起。

Pride apes humility. 大巧若拙。

Pride goes before a fall. (or destruction). 骄兵必败。

Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 骄傲一开始，耻辱接踵至。

Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 骄傲可能披著老一套的外衣出现。

Pride must be pinched. 骄傲必须收敛。

Pride will have a fall. 骄者必败。

Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延即浪费时间。

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. 进展即今日的活动和明日的保证。

Promise is debt. 许愿就是债，欠了不容赖。

Promise little but do much. 少许愿，多做事。

Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues. 顺境显邪恶，逆境见善性。

Prosperity gains (or makes) friends, and adversity tries them. 顺境交朋友，逆境试真情。

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. 谚语言短简，得自老经验。

Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. 谚语是一国的思想精华。

Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. 谚语是时代的智慧。

Prove thy friends ere thou have need. 需要朋友之前，先要加以考验。

Provide for the worst, the best will save itself. 作最坏的准备，可以得到最好的结果。

Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. 天公总是佑强者。

Punctuality is the soul of business. 严守时间是办事情的重要原则。

Purpose supposes foresight. 深谋远虑。

Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. 少管闲事。

Put (or Lay or Set) one's shoulder to the wheel. 出一把力。

Put the cart before the horse. 本末倒置。

Put the shoe on the right foot. 责备应受责备者，表扬应受表扬者。

O字开头：
Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. 树大招风。

Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. 服从是军人的第一职责。

Observation is the best teacher. 观察为良师。

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. 人生最可宝贵的是声誉，躯体入土后，声誉犹存。

Of earthly goods the best is a good wife. A bad the bitterest curse of human life. 贤妻最可贵，恶妇是灾星。

Offence is the best defence. 进攻是最好的防御。

Of nothing comes nothing. 无中不能生有。

Often and little eating makes a man fat. 少吃多餐，身强体胖。

Of two evils choose the least. 权衡两害，取其轻者。

Of young men die many, of old men escape not any. 年轻人死得不少，而年迈者是在劫难逃。

Old bees yield no honey. 老蜂不酿蜜。

Old birds are not caught with new nests. 新巢捉不到老鸟。

Old birds are not to be caught with shaft. 老谋是不会失算的。

Older and wiser. 越老越聪明。

Old foxes want no tutors. 老狐狸不需要教师。

Old friends and old wine are best. 古交友情深，陈酒香味醇。

Old love will not be forgotten. 旧情永难忘。

Old vessels must leak. 旧船必漏。

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 老柴最好烧，陈酒最好饮，老友最可靠，老作家的书最好读。

Old wood is best to burn, old book to read. 老柴好烧，老书宜读。

Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride. 老柴好烧，老马好骑。

O liberty, how many crimes have been committed in thy name! 自由啊!假你的名义犯了多少罪啊!
Omelets are not made without breaking eggs. 有失才有得。

Once a devil, always a devil. 一次做魔鬼，永远是魔鬼。

Once a knave, ever a knave. 一朝失足，铸成千古恨。

Once a man and twice a child. 一次为成人，两度当小孩。

Once bit, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，三年怕草绳。

Once is no custom. 一次不成例。

Once on shore, we pray no more. 一旦上了岸，就不再祈祷。

On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind. 在世界上没有一件东西有如人那样伟大，在人之内没有一件东西有如人心那么伟大。

One barking dog sets all street a-barking. 一狗吠声响，狗吠满街坊。

One beats the bush, and another catches the birds. 坐享其成。

One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. 一个男孩比十二个女孩还要麻烦。

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. 人难一世称雄，但可一生为人。

One cannot be in two place at once.
One cannot do a foolish thing once in one's life, but one must hear of it a hundred times. 为人一生一件蠢事也不做，但要听到上百遍蠢事。

One cannot eat one's cake and have it. 事难两全其美。

One cannot get blood from a stone. 石头里抽不出血。

One cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. 朽木不可雕。

One cannot make bricks without straw. 巧妇难为无米之炊。

One cannot put back the clock. 光阴一去不复返。

One chick keeps a hen busy. 一只小鸡已够母鸡辛忙。

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. 一叶可障目。

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. 光辉生活中忙迫的一个小时抵得上无为的一世。

One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. 一滴之毒，毒染整桶之酒。

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. 十个朋友做的好事抵不上一个敌人造成的危害。

One enemy is too much. 一个敌人也太多。

One false move may lose the game. 一著不慎，满盘皆输。

One false step will make a great difference. 失之毫厘，谬以千里。

One father can support ten children, ten children cannot support one father. 一个父亲能扶养十个孩子，十个孩子却不能赡养一个父亲。

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. 一个父亲胜于一百个教师。

One flower makes no garland. 一木不能成林。

One foe is too many; and a hundred friends too few. 朋友成百犹觉少，仇敌一人已嫌多。

One fool makes many. 一人傻，傻大家。

One foot is better than two crutches. 一只脚胜过两根拐杖。

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. 上百双有力的手，不如一个聪明的头脑。

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. 一个好的母亲顶得上一百个教师。

One good turn deserves another. 以德报德。

One half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 贫富不相知。

One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls. 深知底蕴，不以为怪。

One honest word is better than two oaths. 两句誓言不如一句实话。

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after. 午夜前睡一小时抵得上午夜后睡三小时。

One hour today is worth two tomorrow. 今天的一个小时抵得上明天的两个小时。

One love drives out another. 新爱逐旧欢。

One man makes a chair and another man sits in it. 坐享其成。

One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge. 只许州官放火，不许百姓点灯。

One man's meat is another man's poison. 一个人的佳肴常为另一人的毒药。

One may sooner fall than rise. 跌倒容易爬起难。

One may think that dares not speak. 人可思其不敢言者。

One misfortune comes on the neck of another. 祸不单行。

One must draw the line somewhere. 人之所为，总有限度。

One must drink as one brews. 自作自受。

One must howl with the wolves. 入乡随俗。

One never loses anything by politeness. 有礼貌对自己不会吃亏。

One never loses by doing a good turn. 行善者决无一失。

One penny witgh right is better than a thousand without right. 合法得来一个钱，胜过非法钱一千。

One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows. 有的耕，有的播，谁来收获很难说。

One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel. 一只烂苹果烂一萝苹果。

One should eat to live, not live to eat. 人为生而食，非为食而生。

One sin opens the door for another. 一个罪恶常为另一个罪恶开门。

One's mantle falls on somebody. 春风化雨。

One sows another reaps. 不劳而获。

One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. 一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。

One today is worth two tomorrows. 今天一天抵明天两天。

One who can do everything can do nothing. 什么都能做，什么都不行。

One woe doth tread upon another's heels. 祸不单行。

One wrong (or false) move can lose the whole game. 棋错一著，全盘皆输。

One wrong thought may cause a lifelong regret. 一念之错可铸终生之恨。

Only that which is honestly got is gain. 正当的收入才是真正的收入。

Only they who fulfill their duty in everday matters will fulfill them on great occasions. 只有在日常事务上尽责的人，才能在重大事情上尽责。

On the choice of friends. Our good or evil name depends. 朋友的选择可影响名誉的好坏。

On the great clock of time there is but one word, "Now." 在伟大的时钟上，只有一个词，就是“现在”。

Open confession is good for the soul. 坦白交代，身心愉快。

Open not your door when the devil knocks. 不要受人的诱惑。

Opportunity makes the thief. 疏忽招盗贼。

Opportunity seldom knocks twice. 机不可失，失不再来。

Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. 只要努力工作而有志向，机会迟早终会来临。

Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. 别人为食而生活，我为生活而食。

Our affections are our life. -- We live by them; they supply our warmth. 我们的感情，是我们的生命，我们靠它生存，我们的温暖是它供应。

Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them. 最好的朋友是指出我们的缺点并帮助改正的人。

Our bravest and best lessons are not learnt through success, but through misadventure. 最美好的教训不是得之于成功，而是来之于不幸。

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 我们最大的光荣并不在于永不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒后能起来。

Our happiness consists not in killing others, but in sacrificing ourselves for others. 我们最大幸福并不是杀害别人，而是为别人而牺牲自己。

Our own actions are our security, not others' judgements. 我们的行为是自己的保证而不是别人的鉴定。

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 最甜美的的歌是诉说最悲伤的哀思。

Out of debt, out of danger. 无债一身轻。

Out of sight, out of mind. 久违情疏。

眼不见，心不烦?
Overdone is worse than undone. 过犹不及。

N字开头：
Napoleon himself was once a crying baby. 即使是拿破仑，过去也是啼哭的婴孩。

Nature abhors a vacuum. 自然界里是没有真空的。

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak. 天赋我们两耳，两眼，一张嘴巴，归根到底该多听，多看，少说话。

Nature is the glass reflecting truth. 大自然是反应真理的一面镜子。

Nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our enemies. 自然教我们爱朋友，宗教却教我们爱敌人。

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. 自然，时间和耐心，是三大伟大的医生。

Nature will have its course. 天行其道。

Naughty boys sometimes make good men. 顽皮淘气的男孩子有时成为仁人君子。

Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant. 需要和机会可能使懦夫变成勇士。

Necessity (or Need) has (or knows) no law. 需要面前无法律。

Necessity is the mother of invention 穷则变，变则通。

Necessity knows no law. 铤而走险。

Need makes the old wife trot. 人急造反，狗急跳墙。

(事急老妪跑。

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Needs must when the devil drives. 情势所迫，只好如此。

Neglect of health is doctor's wealth. 忽视健康，医生财旺。

Never be weary of well doing. 行善莫厌烦。

Never cackle till your egg is laid. 事竟成，才声张。

Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk. 不要过河拆桥。

Never do things by halves. 做事情不要半途而废。

Never embark on what comes after without having mastered what goes before. 如未掌握好已学过的东西，切莫从事更深的学习。

Never fry a fish till it's caught. 捉到鱼，才煎鱼。

Never judge by appearances. 人不可貌相。

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. 抓住大好时机，切莫等闲错过。

Never offer to teach fish to swim. 切莫教鱼游泳。

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today. 今日事，今日毕。

Never put the plow before the oxen. 不要本末倒置。

Never say die! Up man, and try. 不要气馁，朋友，振作起来，干!
Never say of another what you would not have him hear. 莫说不想让人听见的话。

Never show the bottom of your purse or your mind. 钱包不露底，思想需保留。

Never swap (or swop) horses while crossing the stream. 骑渡中流莫换马。

(指危难时不宜做大变动)
Never think yourself above your business. 切莫自视过高。

Never too late to mend. 过则勿惮改。

Never too late to repent. 过则勿惮改。

Never too old (or late) to learn. 学到老，学不了。

Never (or Don't) trouble trouble till trouble troulbes you. 切莫自寻麻烦。

Never trust another what you should do yourself. 自己应该做的事，决不要委托别人做。

Never trust of fine words. 切勿轻信漂亮的言词。

New brooms sweep clean. 新官上任三把火。

New lords, new laws. 新官新法。

News is like fish. 新闻就像鱼，过后不新鲜。

Newspapers are the world's mirrors. 报纸是世界之镜。

Nightingales will not sing in a cage. 夜莺困笼不唱歌。

No answer is also answer. 不回答也是一种回答。

No bees, no honey; no work, no money. 没有蜜蜂就没有蜜，没有劳动就没有钱。

No cross, no crown. 无苦即无乐。

No gains without pains. 不劳无获。

No garden without its weeds. 有利必有弊。

No good building without a good foundation. 基础不好，建筑不牢。

No great loss without some small gain. 塞翁失马，安知非福。

No herb will cure love. 想思病，无药医。

No joy without annoy. 喜中有忧。

No living man all things can. 世上无全能。

No longer pipe, no longer dance. 运不逢时，事不得意。

No love is foul, nor prison fair. 没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。

No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled. 没受过他人的统治，就不能很好地统治他人。

No man can do two things at once. 心无二用。

No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. 巧匠难以劣布制美服。

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. 不犯千般错误，难成伟大人物。

No man ever became thoroughly bad at once. 没有一个人是一下子就坏透的。

No man ever yet became great by imitation. 笑颦不能成西施。

No man is a hero to his valet. 仆从目中无英雄。

No man (or one) is born wise or learned. 人非生而知之者。

No man is content. 人心是不满足的。

No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year. 人越活越想活。

No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself. 没有一个人因为他自知最糟就是最糟。

No man (or one) is wise at all times. 聪明一世糊涂一时。

No man knows when he shall die, although he knows he must die. 纵然知其难免一死，人却难料何时身亡。

No man learns but by pain or shame. 不经痛苦羞辱，难以取得教训。

No man loves his fetters be they made of gold. 即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。

No money, no honey. 没有金钱，就没有爱情。

None are so deaf as those who will not hear. 不愿倾听意见者最聋。

None but a wise man can employ leisure well. 唯智者善于利用空闲。

None but the brave deserve the fair. 英雄才能配美人。

None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. 只有那个穿鞋人，才知哪里鞋轧脚。

None knows the weight of another's burden. 看人挑担不吃力。

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. 蚂蚁不说话，但最善于说教。

None so blind as those who won't see. 最瞎莫如视而不见。

None so deaf as those that won't hear. 置若罔闻。

No news is good news. 没有消息就是好消息。

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectlymoral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. 所有的人自由后，才能完全自由;所有的人都有道德，才能完全合乎道德;所有的人都幸福了，才能真正幸福。

No one can call back yesterday. 往日不复返。

No one can disgrace us but ourselves. 除非羞耻自由取，他人岂能辱吾?。

No one can have all he desires. 无人能有所欲有。

No one is a fool always, every one sometimes. 无人总是当傻瓜，人人有时当傻瓜。

No one (or man) is born wise or learned. 人非生而知之者。

No one is wise at all times. 人总有一时之失。

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. 不劳则无获，共难才得福，有荣必有辱，无苦即无乐。

No pains, no gains. 不劳则无获。

No piper can please all ears. 众口难调。

No pleasure without alloy (or pain or repentance). 乐中有悲。

No possession, but use, is the only riches. 真正的财富不是占有，而是使用。

No practice, no gain in one's wit. 吃一堑，长一智。

Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes at all. 我不轻蔑名誉，也不需要她的青睐;如果她竟来的话，也是不求而自来的。

No road is long with good company. 途有好伴，不觉路远。

No root, no fruit. 没有根，就没有果。

No rose without a thorn. 玫瑰都有刺。

No rule without an exception. 没有一条规则没有例外。

No safe wading in an unknown water. 未知水深浅，涉水有危险。

No smoke without some fire. 无风不起浪。

No song, no supper. 不劳无获。

No sooner said than done. 言而必行。

No sunshine but bath some shadow. 有明必有暗。

No sweat, no sweet. 不劳则无获。

No sweet without some sweat. 不劳则无获。

Nothing brave, nothing have. 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man. 饥不择食。

Nothing comes from (or of) nothing. 无风不起浪。

Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it. 无风不起浪。

Nothing comes wrong to a hungry man. 饥不择食。

Nothing crave, nothing have. 有求才有应。

Nothing for nothing and very little for a half penny. 一分钱，一分货。

Nothing is difficult to a man who wills. 世上无难事，只怕有心人。

Nothing is impossible to willing mind (or heart). 有志者事竟成。

Nothing is impossible (or difficult) to the man who will try. 天下无难事，只怕不努力。

Nothing is really beautiful but truth. 只有真理才是真美。

Nothing is stolen without hands. 无风不起浪。

Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas. 除非消灭跳蚤，做事不必急躁。

Nothing seek, nothing find. 无所求，则无所获。

Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something. 塞翁失马，安知非福。

Nothing so necessary for travellers as languages. 旅行者最需要的是几种语言。

Nothing succeeds like success. 一事成功，事事顺利。

Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. 只有贫困可以不劳而获得。

Nothing venture, nothing win (or have or gain). 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

Nothing will come of nothing. 无风不起浪。

No time like the present. 只争朝夕。

Not let the grass grow under one's feet. 不失时机。

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. 新奇生乐趣。

No vice goes alone. 坏事不单行。

No way is impossible to courage 勇敢面前没有通不过的路。

No wisdom like silence. 智者寡言。

Now or never. 机不可失，失不再来。

No wrong without remedy. 无错不可纠。

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